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Milad Shaddelan

Founder · Data & AI engineer · Builder

I build for problems that don't come with instructions.

Across machines, information, and human behavior, I'm drawn to uncertainty—incomplete signals, competing explanations, and ideas that have not yet become dependable systems.

I don't believe difficulty makes a problem important. But when a problem matters, its difficulty is a reason to begin—not a reason to look away.

Machines / structure in the noise

Information / meaning in context

Human behavior / intent in the gaps

Stanford Commencement · 2005

You can't connect the dots looking forward.You can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs

Looking back, the through-line becomes visible.

  1. Machines
  2. Information
  3. Human behavior
  4. Dependable systems

One question, many forms

What deserves our confidence?

A cool blue field of measured points and luminous waves representing model confidence.
01Machines

How do we know when a model deserves confidence?

I explore evaluation, competing explanations, and systems that can show their work—not merely sound certain.

Warm streams of particles and abstract information fragments moving through a dark field.
02Information

How do we find signal without hiding uncertainty?

I build ways to turn noisy, incomplete evidence into useful decisions while keeping ambiguity visible.

Calm coral filaments flowing like a breath through a dark field.
03Human behavior

How can technology support reflection without taking away agency?

My experiments in meditation, motivation, and human-centered agents ask technology to make room for people—not replace their judgment.

A through-line

The subjects changed. The question stayed.

01

Learning the signal

Start with what the evidence can actually say.

Machine learning, perception, APIs, and analysis taught me to look for structure without pretending the data is cleaner than it is.

02

Understanding the person

Build around attention, motivation, and choice.

Meditation, breathing, reflection, and multi-agent coaching experiments shifted the question inward: what helps a person see more clearly?

03

Making it dependable

Turn the experiment into something people can rely on.

AI evaluation, cloud delivery, privacy infrastructure, and open-source intelligence bring the same concern into production: earn trust with evidence.

Public work & writing

Proof you can inspect.

These are the parts I can show openly. The private work informs the questions—not the claims.

Latest essayYour AI writes code.
Who checks if it works?