Dear Professor Shafique and the Selection Committee,
I'm an incoming Computer Science student at NYU Abu Dhabi, applying for the
AgenticCOFs Research Assistant position.
t JetBrains' ACTS Camp this summer, I spent ten days building the part of an AI
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assistant that decides which tool to call and when - routing requests across
calendar, reminders, and to-do actions, and handling the state and edge cases
underneath. It's definitely a small piece of what AgenticCOFs needs at a much
larger scale, but it's the same basic problem: getting different parts of a system to
hand off work to each other correctly. That's what pulled me toward this project -
I'd like to help build the layer that connects the different agents in your pipeline,
or help feed literature into it through the RAG work, and learn the rest as I go.
nother reason I am drawn to the AgenticCOFs project is that it addresses one
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of the most pressing challenges facing our planet today. It is capturing CO2 to
combat climate change. In one of my projects, I collaborated with four reading
specialists to translate clinical methodologies into an edtech platform for dyslexic
students. That experience taught me how rewarding it is to bridge software
engineering with domain expertise to create meaningful impact, and I would love
the chance to learn how your team translates experimental chemistry into
closed-loop agentic systems.
I am particularly excited about how this project builds on the eBRAIN Lab’s
strengths in intelligent system design and efficient AI uses. Seeing your lab apply
these machine learning systems to solve real-world problems - such as MindArm
- shows the exact kind of practical, interdisciplinary research I want to learn from
and contribute to.
his is the kind of long-term technical work I want to build my early career
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around: strong AI architectures applied to problems that matter. I am genuinely
interested in this field of work and more than ready to start learning. I am ready to
dedicate 10 hours a week, absorb guidance from your doctoral team, and grow
as a long-term collaborator under your mentorship.
Sincerely, Giorgi Chachava
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