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we taught magic sand to do linear algebra and now it can think (maybe)
"went from ai agnostic to ai religious" - people after talking to me
Hi! I am Maksym, currently working on AI for mechanical and electrical engineering at a startup in San Francisco. Previously a Computer Engineering student at Columbia University (John Jay Scholar, Neo Scholar), born and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine.
I am passionate about AI, hardware, startups and deep tech.
Previously, I have started Pravopysnyk, AI grammar correction service for Ukrainian, published research, and worked on cool hardware projects.
In parallel working on Danish Bricks Builder, the first (and the best) place to vibecode a LEGO set.
teaching AI to build with LEGO bricks
building data, models and benchmarks to enable AI to do mechanical engineering, using LEGO bricks. we have the best AI LEGO builder in the world: it turns any prompt into a validated LEGO set you can build TODAY.
llm arena, but for CAD
open benchmark for AI-generated parametric CAD inspired by LLM arena, comparing commercial and academic models.
strava/goodreads for research papers
we ingested and embedded all of arxiv (~2.5M papers), so it’s easier to find new papers to read and keep track of the ones you’ve already read.
building a robot dog
building a Dingo-style quadruped from scratch: designed it in Fusion360, simulated it in PyBullet, then taught it to walk with reinforcement learning and ran that on the real robot. Unfortunately many robot legs were harmed in the process.
grammarly, but for ukrainian
The first AI grammar correction service for Ukrainian. Won 1st place in the GEC+Fluency track of the UNLP 2023 shared task, with a paper at the UNLP workshop at EACL 2023.
yelling at drones in english
natural-language-driven drone planning that won a 10k hackathon run by Sebastian Thrun.
integrating the ROB
RISC-V out-of-order processor with custom microarchitecture and FPGA implementation.
lectures, minus the lecturer
an early agentic coding system that writes and renders 2+ minute educational videos with manim. HackHarvard category winner out of ~150 teams.
NeurIPS 2026 workshop
Build, Test, Success: Verification in the Loop Turns LLM Agents into Brick Builders
Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Agents, poster
ECCV 2024
EraseDraw: Learning to Insert Objects by Erasing Them from Images
European Conference on Computer Vision. Earlier version: oral at the CVPR 2024 AI for Content Creation workshop
UNLP @ EACL 2023
Comparative Study of Models Trained on Synthetic Data for Ukrainian Grammatical Error Correction
Second Ukrainian NLP Workshop at EACL. 1st place, GEC+Fluency track of the UNLP 2023 shared task
For writing, check out my Substack
Other random facts:
Aspiring sci-fi writer.
Competed at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Used to do ballroom dancing.
Big fan of strategy games (Civilization, Paradox, Chess).
I like building robots that look slightly cursed.