tomer rivir yonatan

amateur academic, adventurer, and science communicator with a passion for decentralized science, generative biology, & space exploration. always down to collab on a project!

#makersgonnamake

the lucid diffuser is a dual well aromatherapy diffuser i developed to help me establish and maintain my sleep schedule. i've written about it on hackaday and on research hub.

let's code

i'm a huge fan of swift, and push for it to be used outside of just iOS, but for data science / ml, embedded systems, and more!

  • check out my medium blog for follow along projects on data science & ml in swift

  • find my repos on github including a project i'm working on for swiftio, the first swift-based microcontroller

wetware policy project

I participated in uc irvine's science policy and advocacy course, in which i identified an issue of present need in the current scientific landscape, and developed a policy roadmap identifying the steps needed to develop a policy proposal that addresses the lack of research and development regulation concerning wetware systems. you can find a link to an online pdf here.

penny personal finance

Penny is a personal finance app that my friends and I built to help make financial management more accessible to people without backgrounds in finance. You can sync your financial accounts and ask penny questions without sacrificing your privacy thanks to proprietary on-device machine learning. oh, and it's free!

tangency

tangency, and its activist hq initiative, is a nonprofit activism literacy organization I cofounded with some friends back in 2016. our activities include

  • offering impact project grants to individuals & community organizations

  • provide student activist scholarships

  • offer the activist hq podcast (on hiatus)

  • provide free project consultations to activists, orgs, and businesses looking to develop their public initiatives

research radar

initially sponsored by research hub, i make videos explaining research papers popular on the platform.