hello! i’m hawa this is my chaotic (but sincere) corner of the internet
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people who inspire me 💌
thank you to everyone who continues to inspire me everyday! be it past students, TAs, peers at school, professors, friends, uber drivers, strangers, baristas and many many more!! 🤠
My parents, Siblings, Yuquan Deng, Manasa Lingireddy, Andrey Risukhin, Judy Kang, Grace Jun, Adam Towers, Avni Rao, Raghav Narula, Ellie Marsh, Meera Patel, Sashiv Bhatina, Parsa Khazaeepoul, Kianna Bolante, Anissa Abu-Hadba, Jason Guo, Angela Wu, Sam Dore, Isabelle Reksopuro, Aiden Bai, Japeheth Seifu, Francisco Neto (my Uber driver from Brazil!), Aisha Cora, Kyle Johnson, Clare Edmonds, Molly Cantillon, Aruna Srivastava, Tiffany Horter, Layla Airola, Kai Daniels, Eyad Alsilimy, Ian Cooper, Andre Ye, Iris Zhou, Eric Yeh, Sonia Fereidooni, Aryan Mahindra, Sofia Barry, Vi Le, Jennifer Duong, Tiffany Wong, Kevin Farhat, Yerim Heo, Tiffany Yan, Huayue (Lucia) Zou, Jaela Field, Arman Mohammed, Lindi Rubadiri-Mujugira, Maria Cervantes, Gagan Singh, Elisha Jeon, Aditi Jain, Dasha Orlov, Niyati Trivedi, Marco Gardida Cortes, Yasmine Shubber, Shiina Sugioka, Martin Johnson, Vani Agarwal, Ahmed Ghaddah, Fardeem Munir, Eyoel Gebre, Hana Smahi, Joey Krueger, Ankith Tunuguntla, Cristian Garay, Hannah Jiang, Romero Hutapea, Ruhee Rajwani, Mekedes Dejenie, Varun Agrawal, Chaytan Inman, Sorrel Alvason, Jake Harper, Farah Ali, Kurtis Heimerl, Youssef Ben Taleb, Elias Belzberg, Tia Bjornson, Sydney Lai, Gurucharan Lingamallu, Abselom Sultanu, Alan Leong, Gen Sakura, Mya Baker, Jana Radwan, Alexandra Debow, Nithi Byreddy, Caleb John, Farhan Khan, Jamari Morrison, Luna Chen, Jenny Peng, Paulo Nascimento, Chloe Dolese Mandeville, Lee Janzen Moral, Ariel Fu, Sreshth Kharbanda, Samudra Mowar, Tamara Enriquez, Arya Sanjay, Kevin Zatloukal, Heer Patel, Amy Zhang, Carter Swartout, Farrel Sudrajat, Amy Lu, Daniel Sunn Kim, James Livingston, Eric Xiao, Connor Maginnis, Yali Mu, Sukhmanreet Kaur, Ivan Artyukhov, Deeksha Vatwani, Abby Tran, Jessica Wang, Nila Keri, Harshitha Rebala, Ashrith Bandla, Zeynep Toprakbasti, Jonus Li, Sara Wu, Maria Protogeru, Brett Wortzman, Isabel Froelich, James Froelich, Aya Griswold, Benjamin Zhang, Camila Morales, Shawn Collinge, Elijah Melton, Chris Thachuk, Sophia Lin, Wesley Dela Cruz, Madi Nguyen, John Nguyen, Aditi Rana, Catherine Rasgaitis, Sheikh Fazal Hassan, Muallima Bahiyya, Jumana Fathima, Khanh Nguyen, Arhan Jain, Anaya Pandit, Samuel Purnama, Afifah Kashif, Nika Samsavar, Dana Alsarabi, Chloe Wong, Anthony Chung, Siddharth Thiagarajan, Mike Fridgen, Grace Brigham, Jay Bartot, Diego Carreterro Alvarez, Jacquline Li, Fiona W. , Praveer Jain, Kulbir Singh, Pranav Teegavarapu, Keira Wong, Eman Mustefa, Yunseo (Lucas) Lee, Rodrigo Ibarra, Noa Uritsky, Leah Jia, Jack Luo, Amal Sorathia, Krithika Satish, Nuha Qadir, Prisha Ambekar, Sia Razdan, Sam Scalia, Austin Lee, Kevin Wu, Mabel Kwok, Margaret Li, TIm Avilov, Matt Lau, Caleb Hu, Anika Tara Rao, Kelvin Ng, Takanori Futagi, Noel Wittner, Madeline Brumley, Vera Chuang, Shakti Senthil, Walid Sheykho, Timothy Zhong, Therese Pena Pacio, Andrew Nakamoto, Ameya Agrawal, Audrey Tseng, Kevin Xiao, Nate Bek, Jack Regala, Nick Khormaei, Vanya Dimri, Iman Nilfiroush, Huong Nguyen, Swathi M. , Hugh March, Annika Singh, Vishal Canumalla, Logan Dinh, Rupok Ghosh, Antonio Ballesteros, Azaan Khalfe, Palbir Singh, Franchesca Nicole Lazaro, Andrea Chen, Nicole Sullivan, Sulaiman Shabain, Amay Bansal, Angelo Duaz, Athena Ortega, Tim Avilov, Aydan (from twitter), Ryu Parish, Ethan Leonard, Justin Liao, David Kim, Daniel Bejar, Jintae Cho, Megana Kommareddy, Paul Stevans, Tamara Jaber, Xavier Dixon, Chairnet Muche, Anusha Gani, Rida Khan, Dawit Hailu, Phil Bedford, Chaitanya Sekhar, Amie Touray, Lalia Baldeh, Thang Huynh (TAYYY), Richie Doan, Chanh Truong, Raiden Santos, Varun Ananth, Hans Easton, Matthew Santos, Saleh Wehelie, Yafqa Khan, Andrew Cheung, Trang Tran, Karyna, Kevin Vasquez, Claire Li, Hemil Patel, Aarav Wadhwani, Shubhi Handa, Aditya Akhileshwaran, Nabilah Ahmad, Sharan Jhangiani, Saara Uthmaan, Matt Deitke, Natasha Jacques, Jove Winston Pendapotan, Bayan Farag, Ayesha Khan, Srushti Adesara, Isaiah Hoagland, Kanha Bhatt, Luke Sorvik, Vinod Dayalan, Raghav Muddur, Jonathan Thomas, Vaishali Koul, Teresita Paltep, Kimia Nehchiri, Noor Shatnawi, Betsy Garcia, Azaelea Garcia, Will Hunt, Beta Chen, Kai Green, Bowang Lan, Rich Chen, Alina Yusaf, Zanoor Yusaf, Savanna Yee, Seonjun Moon, Hector Rodriguez, Aditya Khowal, Erika Ni, Raymond Yu, Benya Vahdat, Rayouf Alhumedhi, Shahvir Sarkary, Kiana Ehsani, Shaheer Sandhu, Pranav Madhukar, Stacy Brewer, Patty Fotheringham, Cherish Gortner, Miriam Zeghmi, Nasteho Wasuge, Liza Zakhorava, Thomas Masar, Omar Waseem, Mufti Menk, Grey Sunderland, Erik Suokko, The Nguyen Family (John, Peter, their parents), Diandre Miguel Sabale, Bailey Edgley, Matt Stokes, Zaha Hadid, Paul Spatafore, Janani Raghavan, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, Nikhesh(Niki) Parekh, Kentrell Owens, Cathy Elder, Grant Tannert, Hitesh Boinpally, Ziao Yin, Gary Guo, Alicia Beatty, Yash Mishra, Danielle Strachman, Chendur Jayevalu, Talal Kheiry, Karen Zhang, Allison Yung, Bhavyahshree Navaneetha Krishnan, Logan Boyd, Dhruv Bansal, Riva Gore, Meiyao Li, Hasan Mangrio, Leo Li, Sai Sunku, Avi Agola, Isabel Amaya, Shengyao Liu, Afra Nehal, Emma Li, Abby Tran, Edwin Nino Delgado, Paul Graham ♡ , Haya Odeh, Furqan Rydhan, Yael Eiger, Suchir Balaji, Molly Mielke, Alex Hsu, Cobi Stancik, Shrima Narasimhan, Dayton Kelly, Kally Chamberlain, Andrea Coladangelo, Sthiti Patnaik, Chetan Sidhu, Noah Hoang, Maya Lekhi, Kshitij Rao, Leonard Paya, Biniyam Gebreyohannes, Devin Le, Dean Watanasri, Bryan ( Bohan) Zhao, Tricia Serio, Magda Balazinska, Maude Lustig, Ed Lazowska, Alexandra Yankovskaya, Simon Kurgan, David Coven, Amy Cheng, Vernon Lumpkin, Yifan Zhang, Audrey Yun, Jacob Colker, Kirby Winfield, Ana Pozo, Ben Golden, Palak Agarwal, Vu Ha, Arthur Maloy, Katie Drucker, Ahad Rana (THE GOAT), Varun Puri, Esha Joshi, Christen Miyasoto, Anesa Abdullah, Ege Caglar, Ruslan Mukhamedvaleev, Ben Eggers, Aditi Bhatt, Abdul Muhsin Hammed, Di Na, Mikail Rana, Darla Young, Tina-Marie Gulley, Priyanka Kulkarni, Sage Ke'alohilani Quiamno, Maria Dejesus, Ishaan Awasthi, Sahana Narendran, Bryce Lindberg, Laura Sinisterra, Elise Kim, Natalie Almosa, Rohina Gandhi, Tamara Winter, all the cseed buildspace cohort ppl & SO MANY MORE ppl. will regularly update
last updated: 2.17.2026
i give small grants [when i'm not broke LOL] to creative, inspiring people who are building and tinkering, especially engineers, designers, makers, and creators who follow their curiosity and put care into their work. i do this through the animation fund and other ways. reach out if you create things from the soul and not for hype ♡ no strings attached!!
2026
Meera Patel & Noelle So are building intelligent systems for manufacturing, from simulation engines to sensor anomaly detection and mechanical compliance design review tools
Eli Kimchi is an inspiring industrial design student building a personal set of kitchen tools (from spoons to spatulas) and a book exploring the stories and craft behind them
Ishaan Awasthi is my GOAT and is truly going to change the world
Stephen Lines is exploring vibe coding and building creative tools at the intersection of design and AI
Agasthya Gangavarapu has big visions and is exploring and building the future of tech x art x new media
2024 + 2025
chetan, noah, satvik, & rao are building glimpse, the cursor for agentic photo editing that saves professional and new photographers many hours of manual editing work.
reese chong is building torial, a free text-to-Manim video generator that brings your course material to life.
maya lekhi and palak agarwal hosted them first ever stupid ideas hackathon in seattle !!
hammaad memon: hammaad is building txt2latex, a web editor that converts natural language to both math symbols and LaTex.
atd design fraternity: alpha theta delta is the world’s first professional interdisciplinary design fraternity, bringing creatives together to build community and design for the future
claire li: i will basically invest in claire in any lifetime for any endeavor. building wearable device applications, pinpots(fun location based image sharing),& research doing simulation-driven control for data center networks
pranav madhukar: pranav is building meteor - the world's first agentic browser
elvin fu: elvin has taught over 20 million students game development. he is also building codewisp - an AI powered beginner game dev platform!
aruna srivastava: i will basically invest in aruna in any lifetime for any endeavor. building koel labs, helping people master pronunciation using their favorite classic movie scenes.
kanha korgaonkar: kanha is rethinking how word processors work, by building laurelin, the first product to change documents in the post-AI world
jove pendapotan, samuel purnama, & reuben santoso: building bilby, a note-taking tool that uses OCR + LLMs to turn screenshots into clean, structured lecture notes, cutting note-taking time by up to 90%. early demo
naisha sinha: hosted a q&a with the los angeles lakers team for students to learn about a career in sports technology
mukund senthil kumar: mukund is building autonomous racecars that race like mario kart in adjustable tracks
arturo lopez chavez & alan santiago: building H.A.D.E.S: a hyper-accurate aerial defense engagement system
kawsu @ kids in technology: mentoring the next generation of inventors in the gambia, west africa, through hardware, robotics, and programming
colton carroll: designed & built programmable christmas light bracelets to make evergreen church’s holiday light shows more interactive
alba navarro yu, jia ruparel, & smriti kallahalla: prototyped safety tools and systems to help people feel more safe. pivoted to AI medical app!
jake harper: designed and built a full DIY photobooth with his best friend
cseed ofc LOL
yash mishra, mark pock, alexander young: launched the philosophy club @ UW to question everything from AI to ethics. check out their recent podcast with oren etzioni
pranav teegavarapu, keira wong, myself (hehe), eyoel gebre: co-hosting saturdays.rsvp, a collective of makers and a weekly space for side projects
avni rao, prisha ambekar, samantha scalia: ran dreamers day, a hands-on STEM workshop for middle school girls
shakti senthil: hosted a women in CS trivia night to build bonds
praveer jain, vishnu iyengar: expanded the husky squash club with free lessons for UW students