Danica Hartawan, Chinese-Indonesian researcher and engineer at UC Berkeley.
I always thought I’d become a behavior technician — and in a way, I did (fun fact: I’m a licensed behavior technician for autism). I’ve long been fascinated by how people think, learn, and make decisions, and that curiosity now shapes the systems I build. Definitely a lifelong learner as well—always looking for something to humble me!
I always thought I’d become a behavior technician — and in a way, I did (fun fact: I’m a licensed behavior technician for autism). I’ve long been fascinated by how people think, learn, and make decisions, and that curiosity now shapes the systems I build. Definitely a lifelong learner as well—always looking for something to humble me!
Recently
- Previously, a Technical Product Intern at NVIDIA working on AI for knowledge workers and the open model ecosystem.
- Building Cady, a tool I very much needed, aiming to bring back creative freedom to engineers and designers through CAD.
- Teaching my first class on Alzheimer’s.
- Doing lots of research at my BAIR lab on children’s pedagogy and vLLM model training.
- Analog journaling and reading non-fiction books, making video journals obsessively, caring for my 14 tortoises, and making a mean coffee.