Hey I’m Lucas.
I’m an engineer, researcher and product designer.
If you found this page interesting, let’s chat.
I’ve been working on a broad range of projects from robotics and AI to design tools. Here’s a few of them:
Some other stuff I’ve been up to:
- Technion Yom Ha’Atzmaut ‘25 hackathon winner
- UNIHACK ‘24 hackathon winner
- Scaled reusable coffee cups across Australia at Cercle
- Started selling code to business clients when I was 16
- Tinkering in the garage with electrons since I was 15
- You can find my resume here
- View the Mobius strip behind
- I never got my pen license
Musings
My core philosophy
Scale, abstraction and curiosity are the essential primitives for understanding anything.
Abstraction is the framework that allows us to zoom in and out of different scales.
Quarks and leptons, when combined, form the atomic scaffolding of organic matter. Organic molecules, when combined, form the cellular scaffolding for bacteria, plants, animals, and ultimately, conscious systems capable of reflecting on the structure that made them.
Groking large scales down to the primitives requires traversal through long and dense abstraction chains - something only possible with relentless curiosity.
How problems are easier than what problems
“What are we going to build?” versus “How are we going to build it?”
This might read as a misnomer since it’s difficult to arrive at how without deciding on something to work on - the what.
The ideal problem is one where the how is more difficult to solve for than the what. Ruling out the edge cases where both are either trivial or intractable.
How problems are those where the what is easy to understand. For example, cryosleep chambers, anti-matter propulsion engines and nuclear fusion. Their impact on society is non-trivial but how do we do it?
Contrast this with the quintessential what problem: Blockchain. The how has been well understood for years now, distributed consensus, cryptographic verification, programmable ledges. But what should this actually be used for, where it’s better than conventional systems?
What happened to wonder?
Where did the large marble columns and painted ceilings go? Where can we seek modern grandeur?
Greco-futurism is an inspiring style. It invokes awe.
Brutalism, despite its melancholic undertone, still invokes permanence. A durable structure that will outlast you, no matter your opinion towards it.
Today’s buildings, don’t look like they stand a chance against Godzilla.
Publications
- Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. A New Incentive Model For Content Trust. arXiv:2507.09972 [Link]
- Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. Toward trustworthy content: the role of challengers, juries and veracity bonds in digital media platforms. Industrial Management & Data Systems [Link]
Course Work
Introduction
MATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1A
MATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1B
PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A
COMP1521 Computer Systems Fundamentals
ELEC1111 Electrical Circuit Fundamentals
COMP2121 Microprocessors and Interfacing
ELEC2141 Digital Circuit Design
MATH2089 Numerical Methods & Statistics
COMP2521 Data Structures and Algorithms
A taste of maths
ENGG1300 Engineering Mechanics
MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics
MATH2018 Engineering Mathematics 2D
MTRN2500 Computing for Mechatronic Engineers
COMP1531 Software Engineering Fundamentals
ENGG2400 Mechanics of Solids
MMAN3200 Linear Systems and Control
MMAN2300 Engineering Mechanics 2
COMP3331 Computer Networks and Applications
Applied techniques
COMP3431 Robotic Software Architecture
MTRN3500 Computing Applications in Mechatronic Systems
MTRN3020 Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems
MTRN4110 Robot Design
MTRN4230 Robotics
COMP2511 O-O Design & Programming
MMAN1130 Design and Manufacturing
ECON1101 Microeconomics 1
COMP3411 Artificial Intelligence