maksym bondarenko

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Profile image of Maksym with city skyline

we taught magic sand to do linear algebra and now it can think (maybe)

"went from ai agnostic to ai religious" - people after talking to me

Hi! I am Maksym, currently a Computer Engineering student at Columbia University, coming from Kyiv, Ukraine. I'm graduating in May 2026 and am a John Jay Scholar at Columbia.

I am passionate about AI, hardware, startups and deep tech.

Previously, I have started Pravopysnyk, AI grammar correction service for Ukrainian, published research, and worked on cool hardware projects.

Currently exploring AI for engineering, especially mechE (CAD Arena), and taming the research paper firehose with AI (Paperfan).

Explorations

Ideas, experiments, and deep dives into things that fascinate me

CAD Arena
open benchmark for AI-generated parametric CAD inspired by LLM arena, comparing commercial and academic models.
Paperfan
making you feel good about papers you read this week.
Trot or Rot
full-stack quadruped project, from Fusion360 CAD and PyBullet sim to RL locomotion on real hardware.
Cache Me Out
RISC-V out-of-order processor with custom microarchitecture and FPGA implementation.
EraseDraw
learning to insert objects into images by first erasing them; published at CVPR2024.
Pravopysnyk
The first AI grammar correction service for Ukrainian. Paper published at EACL2023.
Flutter
natural-language-driven drone planning that won a 10k hackathon run by Sebastian Thrun.
Giraffe.study
hackathon project for auto-generated long-form educational videos.

Random

For writing, check out my Substack

Other random facts:

Aspiring sci-fi writer.

Competed at the International Linguistics Olympiad.

Used to do ballroom dancing.

Big fan of strategy games (Civilization, Paradox, Chess).

I like building robots that look slightly cursed.

Contact

LinkedIn GitHub Email 
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