Hi! I'm Nahom. I'm a senior at Yale studying statistics and probability theory. I grew up in Ethiopia and watched the country change enormously in a short period of time. I think a lot about what it takes to build a country. I believe the answer is something like smart, organized, and purposeful industrialization — the kind of thing the TVA did for an entire region. I try to do real things for real people. I'm still figuring out the rest. I try to pay attention.
Some things about me
Born in South Africa, grew up in Ethiopia.
Got a scholarship to attend ICS Addis at 14.
Went to Yale to be a probability theorist because of Wiener.
Worked with Dr. Harrison Zhou and Dr. Sekhar Tatikonda on high-dimensional probability, learning theory, and optimization.
Got a Tobin Fellowship to study congestion externalities in California power markets.
Did research with Anthropic's red team.
Became a Hertog Fellow, studied literary translation theory.
Interned at Bridgewater on the macro team.
Joined Conway as a founding engineer. See Conway's motivations here.
Wrote a thesis on the Parisi Formula.
Currently working in robotics and thinking about critical minerals, Africa and refineries.
Friends
You should check out some of my friends! Yogev Angelovici, Anne Brandes, Noryve Freeman, Antares Chen, Vishnu Mano, Tim Chee
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Contact
I like hearing from people. nahom.seyoum123@gmail.com · (203) 627-6157