Hey—I'm Michel, a computer science student at Princeton.

That aside, I'm interested in law, literature, and sustainability. I also like writing, photography, running, and rock climbing.

Statutory Construction & Interpretation for AI

Blogpost authors: Nimra Nadeem, Lucy He, Michel Liao, and Peter Henderson Paper authors: Lucy He*, Nimra Nadeem*, Michel Liao, Howard

10 Sep

Books

My Top 5 Books of 2024

Table of Contents I read 81 books in 2024. Here are my 5 favorites and some takeaways from reading too

07 Jan

Reflections

Perilously Pursuing Passion

It starts in elementary: “What do you wanna be when you grow up?” And it masquerades as a new question

23 Apr

Computer Vision

How to Write a Custom Dataset and DataLoader

This code is all available in my GitHub. Datasets & DataLoaders PyTorch’s abstract class representing a dataset is Dataset

01 Apr

College Admissions

Research as an Extracurricular

Note: This post largely applies to people applying as STEM/hard science majors. I don’t have the experience to

08 Mar

Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Week 9

Hey! My name’s Michel Liao. I’m a computer science first-year at Princeton University, hoping to get a PhD

23 Jan

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Books

The Hunger Games — Book Review

TL;DR 4/5. “I volunteer as tribute!”: Katniss is thrown into an arena with 23 other minors to battle

20 Jan

Princeton Notes

Princeton coursework notes on math and physics.

High School Math

Math notes from high school including AMC, cryptography, calc 3, and linear algebra.

Standardized Tests

High school standardized test advice and resources.

Vision Transformer from Scratch

A CuPy implementation of the Vision Transformer without PyTorch or TensorFlow.