human-machine symbiosis // supercoordination // physical AI // XR agents // computational cognition

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i'm Alif ! I keep coming back to the same problem: most software treats people as operators sitting in front of a screen, but the interesting work happens in rooms, in bodies, between people, across time. I want to build the interfaces for that. I massively support open source software, and am constantly experimenting and expanding my skills.

so in practice I end up somewhere between XR, brain-computer interfaces, multi-agent systems, and modular robotics.

I studied for minors in robotics && math, with my dual degree in Computer Science + Business Intelligence && Data Analytics with an undergrad at Clarkson University from 2019-2023 in the US, and at DTU in Denmark, and... I wanted to build new organizations, technologies, startups, philosophies, and scientific fields.

now I'm an affiliated researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces group for the last few years doing gnarly interdisciplinary and fundamental work.

I did MIT Reality Hack every year from 2022 to 2026 (fellow hackers reach out 2 me for opportunities!!), and now run Superintelligent Group AKA ΣIG.

before ΣIG, I worked through Halcyox, my distributed advanced HCI R&D company which eventually morphed into everything. Some of these repos are polished... some are messy, as a perfectionist I now try to build in public as much as I can, I know all too well that learning in a (vacuum) produces unproductive outcomes...

right now I advise engineering & research at Doppel Labs and Wallace. I’m also collaborating with Augmentiv Labs on a scientific reproducibility stack that uses smartglasses to make lab procedures verifiable and repeatable. from nov 2024 to aug 2025 I was the first non-founding engineer at Fabublox, an MIT Nanotechnology collaboration, simulation, and process design spin-out startup where I upgraded their process editor, created their version control system, and built out a full-stack AI system called PANDA (Process && Nanofab Design Assistant) to help Fab Services be more intuitive to access across facilities, among other awesome things (like accelerating the entire dev team w/ Vite && Cursor && Claude).

At Clarkson from 2019-2023, I conducted research at the Terascale All-Sensing Research Studio (TARS) under Sean and Natasha Banerjee in XR, robotics, CV, MLK, and AI. During u.g. I also ran the Google sponsored Google Developer Student Club, teaching people about XR, Cloud, and Web technologies for 2 years. I first started becoming really swag once I started attending MIT Reality Hack which I disccovered through running the GDSC, which propelled my career in experimental creative and augmentation technology.

I also once prompted AI to generate a dating website for worms and inspired someone to stageplay my AI-generated youtube dialogues at an off-broadway theater in Brooklyn, so calibrate accordingly.

if... you’re trying to glimpse my polymath range rather quickly*: this account is a mix of XR prototypes, research code, web tools, civic projects, and odd art experiments. The list below is curated, but the repo index is the real proof: github.com/Caerii?tab=repositories.

If you only open a few things, open the repos whose notes tell you how to run it / what to click / what artifact to look at first.

This is the “everything else” map — classes, prototypes, websites, one-offs, and experiments that still say something true about how I build.

• websites & products

  • alifjakir.com: my personal experimental blog where I go more into detail on things!
  • nanotech.school: interactive web learning for nanotech (work in progress).
  • theaicodecompany.com: currently a concept for a portable virtual AI company.
  • Caerii.github.io: older GitHub Pages site / web presence experiments.
  • CommonQuant.com: the CommonQuant marketing site/app codebase (Next.js).

• multi-agent / LLM experiments

  • AgentMultiverse: experiments with OpenAI Assistants-era agent wiring.
  • LanguageAgentTreeSearch: notes/implementation around agentic planning via tree search.
  • pdf-parser-ai: “parse PDFs intelligently” prototype.
  • PDFScraper: brute-force PDF scraping when you just need the text out.
  • AutoTasker: automatic data annotation / task automation experiments.

• robotics-ish / systems

  • DroneDesign: early sketches toward flying-robot design thinking.
  • CS444-Final-DiningPhilsophers: concurrency fundamentals (dining philosophers).
  • CS444-HW1: parallel thread multiplication (threads + performance basics).
  • CS444-HW2: producer/consumer with mutexes (synchronization practice).
  • CS444-HW3: keylogger (OS-level input capture exploration).

• graphics / rendering / play

  • -CS452-ComputerGraphicsClass: graphics class work (a trail of shaders and geometry).
  • TheMysteryRoom3D: a small 3D world / interactive space experiment.
  • GraphicsGame: JavaScript graphics class final (absorb-everything game).

• audio / media

  • 3d-audio-visualizer: a sandbox for 3D audio waveform visualization.
  • checkmysoundcloud: music-and-vibes portfolio experiments.
  • IS426_Audio2Spectrogram: audio → spectrogram preprocessing pipeline.

• hackathons / prototypes

  • LifeInBetweenXR: MIT Reality Hack 2023 3D map viewer sprint.
  • EmergencyAIHelper: HIPAA-ish on-prem emergency AI agents prototype for first responders.
  • Zaqathon-submission: hackathon submission repo (prototype snapshot).

• small utilities / coursework

  • XMLParser: simple XML parser (parser-building practice).
  • Typescript-Calculator: does what it says on the tin.
  • cs460-backend-webapp: backend webapp coursework repo.
  • CodePathAndroidPrework: early Android/Kotlin learning app.

• weird artifacts

  • EnviroVoiceImpersonator-EVI: “stick it on objects and it’ll talk” local model physical object "hat" prototype energy.
  • slither.in: the worm dating website (yes, really).
  • AI_Dialogues_2022: AI-generated dialogues staged as theater.

This is a machine-generated index of my owned repos (sorted by most recent pushes). It’s intentionally exhaustive; the sections above are the human-curated reading path.

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