Sami — HTGAA Spring 2026

About me

I’m Sami, a graduate student at MIT - my interests sit at the intersection of hardware, computation, and the physical sciences, especially the transition from bits to atoms.

A huge source of inspiration for me has been the ethos of the MIT Media Lab and the HTGAA community: people from completely different backgrounds colliding together to build weird but wonderful, ambitious, and sometimes slightly absurd ideas that challenge how we think about the world.

I believe this spirit represents the continuation of an epic lineage of ideas that traces back to the foundations of information theory and modern computation laid decades ago. Over time, many researchers began to see the sciences not as isolated disciplines, but as deeply interconnected fields converging toward questions surrounding artificial life, self-replication, programmable matter, and the possibility that computation could move beyond purely digital environments and begin interacting directly with matter itself. Ideas that once sounded like science fiction now feel increasingly tangible, and I find myself wondering whether biology and the underlying principles of nature may ultimately become the medium through which many of these ideas are realized.

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