Projects
Research, essays, and experiments at the intersection of computation, political economy, and social theory. Updated as the work accumulates.
Love Thy Neighbor: Closing the USMCA Loophole
A policy memo to Representative Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) on responding to Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs through his Trade Subcommittee seat. The proposal leverages the July 2026 USMCA sunset review to push tier-level country-of-origin verification and a broadened Labor Value Content regime, closing the Chinese trans-shipment loophole without raising tariffs on allies.
VAYU: The Infrastructure of Climate Finance
A proposal for automating climate budget tagging in the Global South. VAYU leverages large language models to classify government expenditure into actionable fiscal intelligence. Developed as an experiment in responsible, open-source AI, it tests how computational tools can enforce public-sector accountability and redirect resource allocation.
The Infrastructure Alpha: Investing in India's Healthtech Backbone
An investment thesis exploring the infrastructural demands of India's evolving health insurance market. Co-authored with Shreya, the project maps how regulatory friction and the sudden financial inclusion of the missing middle shift capital opportunities from distribution toward automated, provider-side infrastructure.
The Entscheidungsproblem and the Origins of Modern Computation
An axiomatic build-up to the decision problem that provoked Alan Turing’s 1936 paper on computable numbers. Written to be fully legible to anyone with a few weeks of training in formal logic, these notes deconstruct the exact mathematical stakes of the Entscheidungsproblem, illustrating how the search for automated truth inadvertently mapped the structural boundaries of mechanized systems.
