An inverted timeline of the flux so far:
Started Voyaging.
Researcher at MIT Media Lab, working on neural interfaces and memory augmentation during sleep.Â
Researcher at Harvard working on AI interpretability, pedagogy, and multimodality; simultaneous with MIT role.
23 years old. Inducted into the British Royal Commission, by HRH The Princess Royal. Recognised as one of the top 11 designers in the country.
Joined Oxford University as a Visiting Scholar in Philosophy of AI.
Worked with Snap Inc. on wearable computing prototyping.
Studied at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art; two postgrad degrees at the same time in design engineering.
Researcher at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial, working on human-ai symbiosis and cognitive science.
Joined Microsoft AI as a product manager working on new intelligent surfaces.
Joined Apple in spatial computing, working on software engineering and interaction architecture.
20 years old. Named a scholar at the Royal Academy of Engineering; recognised as one of the top 28 engineers in the country.
Worked in sensor physics at a Cambridge neurotech startup; did three different internships simultaneously.
Studied between product design, mechanical engineering, and materials science at undergrad.
Graduated from high school ranking 1st, as the top performing student in the cohort and in school history.
Worked on mechatronics at Aston Martin before attending university.
16 years old. Designed and built a new kind of wheelchair that received a national innovation award at Buckingham Palace.
Invited to audit college-level engineering classes at the University of Warwick at 15.
Started a website development business at age 13; multiple clients and 5-figure revenue generated.
Writing copious amounts of poetry and wondering what happens in my brain when I feel such intense emotion.
Playing around with biometrics, input modalities, programming, prose, and fuzzy firmware from 11 to 14 years old.
Born, Khalil Ismail, somewhere in England.
Writers: Wilde, Rumi, Gibran
Philosophers: Wittgenstein, Bachelard, Spinoza
Seasons: Dior SS27, Iris van Herpen FW25, Saint Laurent SS02
Anomalies: Barkhausen noise, Quantum friction, Negative differential resistance