madalina sas
/mədə‘lɪna sɑ:s/
n.
I’m a scientist, engineer and artist from Romania, currently based in London. I have a computer engineering master’s from Imperial College and just completed a PhD at Imperial’s Centre for Complexity Science, during which I researched the emergence of self-organised collective behaviour, from the microscopic to the social scale, using information theory and signal processing.

My other technical interests are in network science, cryptography, functional programming, automation, and ethical artificial intelligence. I am the creator of SnowWall, a privacy-oriented networking tool for Windows, and I harangue whoever would listen about security, privacy and digital sovereignty. I also play with electronics (I’m a ham radio enthusiast) and I always wear my tin foil hat. My tools of the trade are a Framework laptop running NixOS, a Sony α7s and a Fujifilm XT-4, a reMarkable and a Banana Phone.

When I’m not staring into a computer screen, I take photographs, I draw, I read and I write. I also enjoy discussing literature and previously I ran a storytelling workshop in Bath. Things I enjoy reading are novels and stories, philosophy of mind and anthropology. Things I love to listen to and look at are usually psychedelic, fractalicious and surreal. I prefer Koch to the Churchlands, Dali to Picasso, Dostoievski to Dickens.

You can read more about my experience or my projects on this site, read my publications or see recordings or slides of my talks. If you’d like me to work together on science, art, or cybersecurity, please get in touch.