Ashna Nirula

currently

• tinkering in plant science with help from the bagelfund
• writing about the future of food with trove biosciences
• creating a mixed media magazine with my friend emily called @themondaymag to celebrate the magic found in mundane moments.
• reflecting in my digital journal

previously

• designed a yeast plasmid to produce genuine milk proteins through precision fermentation. read about it here
• 3D printed a human cell lamp model to explore biodesign. view it here
• built a machine learning model that classifies crop images to allow farmers to pinpoint diseases. view the code or read about it
• created a mini prototype of an underwater farm in my fish tank. watch the creation or read about it
• consulted for canadian aviation electronics alongside tks
• spoke at the world's largest tech conference, websummit, in lisbon, portugal. a gratitude post about the experience.

links you might like

• 📚 my bookshelf
• 🖋 my poetry
• 🫂 why you need to be selfish to make friends [essay]
• 🌼 the magic in the mundane [short film]
• 🔭 2023 annual letter [reflection]

about

who am i?

honestly i think this answer is ever-evolving (so i’m a different person now. and now. and now) but i know for sure that these are three more continuous facets of my identity:

1. i really enjoy learning. about different types of people, the world, and all the things i don’t know i don’t know.
2. i want to make an impact on the world in the form of solving problems those people have.
3. i enjoy topics like biology, food sustainability, philosophy and sociology. (Lots of ologies)

my ever-growing list of hobbies include singing, running, writing notes for strangers and people i love, card making, graphic design, and film.

since you made it down here...

here's one of my all time favourite quotes:

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

-Kurt Vonnegut