RIP Adrian

This is a Romanian Easter egg, a gift from our late friend Adrian Albert. On June 15, he passed away in a hit-and-run while biking in Sonoma. I was heartbroken and cried, asking Sangram, ‘Why do good people have to die so early? It is so unfair!’

Adrian was a brilliant guy with a PhD from Stanford, a post-doc from MIT and was working as a machine learning research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab when he met Sangram.

He was one of the nicest guys we had ever known. He had great regard for Sangram and was warm and respectful towards me. Adrian was intrigued by Sangram’s scientific publications and work at NASA and had approached him to become the CTO of his startup, Terrafuse. Sangram had to refuse the offer because he had agreed to be the CTO of Rhombus officially by then.

Nevertheless, we considered him one of the good guys with whom we would have stayed in touch. We had made plans to go camping together. I was looking forward to it after the lockdown was over.

RIP Adrian. 💔
Do the good work in Heaven, our friend. I will try and transform my life to give respect to the philosophy and drive you had. All distractions must go.