Usman Ghani Bawany
Researcher at UCL · Building Foresio · Writing on AI, blockchain, and the philosophy of mind.
MSc Emerging Digital Technologies at University College London, focused on blockchain, machine learning, and the systems where they collide. Previously co-founded Foresio, an AI automation startup, and Uplift Pakistan, a welfare NGO. I write about research I'm doing, books I'm reading, and the questions that keep pulling me out of bed at 2am.
Latest writing
All posts →Proving You Own a Wallet Without Showing It: A zk-SNARK Primer
Zero-knowledge proofs let you assert facts about a secret without revealing the secret itself. Here's what I learned building a Groth16 wallet verifier.
April 12, 2026 · 2 min read
When Models Agree Too Much: Measuring AI Reflexivity in US Equities
If thousands of independently trained ML models all converge on the same trades, the market starts trading itself. I tried to measure how often this happens.
March 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Why Healthcare Models Have to Explain Themselves
Accuracy is necessary, not sufficient. A model that can't tell a clinician why it flagged a tumor is a model the clinician shouldn't trust.
January 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Currently reading
Reading list →The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Deutsch's claim that explanatory knowledge is open-ended is the most optimistic thing I've read in years. Slow going, dense, worth every page.
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
Personal identity, ethics, future generations — Parfit asks the hardest questions in the calmest voice. The thought experiments rewire you.
Recent talks
All videos →Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Explained from Scratch
A walkthrough of zk-SNARKs starting from the interactive proof intuition — no prior cryptography assumed.
Building a Flight Computer for a Student Rocket
Behind the scenes of UCL Racing Rocket's avionics: the FSM, sensor fusion, and what we learned from blowing things up.