Amaar Chughtai
Engineer and founder in San Jose.
Most of my day goes to watching an agent click around a Mac and fixing what it gets wrong.
Work
- 2025–now The first real-time reconstruction of what a person sees from fMRI: 14.5 seconds after each image, where offline decoding takes 24+ hours. Co-author of the paper on arXiv.
Neural decoding
Research analyst, Princeton - 2023–25 A 501(c)(3) for AP, IB and SAT test prep with 50,000+ monthly active users. Built Nova, an AI tutor fine-tuned on our courses, and led 50+ volunteers. Sponsored by OpenNote, Hack Club, Desmos and others.
Stellar
Co-founder - 2025–now An iOS wardrobe that tags your clothes from a photo and picks outfits for the weather.
Cotton
Founder - 2023–25 Swerve drive and flywheel control for a 2x FRC World Championship qualifier.
WarriorBorgs 3256
Senior developer - 2021–23 A student app for Valley Christian. Led a team of 35 to 1,400 peak users.
VC Assist
Lead engineer
After hours
- Ten years of neo-romantic jazz, performing around the Bay Area.
Piano
- Astrophotography of the moon, the planets and deep-sky objects.
Astronomy
- An open-mic forum I host on culture and a wide range of subjects, taking on sensitive issues with storytelling and humor.
At the Intersection