About me
I’m currently pursuing my MS at the Machine Learning Lab, IIIT Hyderabad. I broadly work in deep learning.
- I enjoy building stuff and solving problems, especially if it has potential to create value.
- The best feeling in the world, to me, is when my work is in people’s hands, getting them excited about it. When it’s deeply integrated in their lives, making it better than if it didn’t exist. That’s what Apple did for me when I was a kid, and since then, I’ve always wanted to know how it feels to be on the other side.
- I strongly believe technology and entrepreneurship together can eventually solve almost every problem humans face and may face in the future, including those created by technology itself.
- A small, cracked team beating large corporations at their own game excites me the most. History is full of such amazing stories.
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Progress in the world comes in two forms:
- Expanding our understanding of the fundamentals of the universe
- Leveraging our existing knowledge to innovate and add value
- I am fascinated by Deep Learning; it is almost indistinguishable from magic. I have absolutely no idea why it works, but it just blows my mind. Deep Learning just works. Never bet against it.
Some personal things about me:
- I embrace minimalism (in most aspects of life), valuing simplicity and functionality.
- I am an extreme optimist and prefer viewing the world from this perspective.
- I live my life one week at a time. Months are too long and inconsistent, days are too short and unpredictable. Measuring most aspects of life in weeks is perfect for me.
- I spend most of my leisure time watching movies or playing sports. I pursued professional athletics for a major part of my teen years and failed before pivoting back to tech.
- Cinema is my favorite form of art, in which Christopher Nolan is my favorite artist followed by Christian Bale, Denis Villeneuve, Matt Damon and Cillian Murphy. Some of my favorite movies include Interstellar, Ford vs Ferrari, The Dark Knight, Gladiator and Oppenheimer. Daredevil and Silicon Valley are some of my favorite TV shows.
- I enjoy watching cricket. My favorite cricket teams are Australia, New Zealand and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
- I like lists. Lists are amazing. I even have a list of all the lists I actively maintain.
- I love caffeine. Espresso and Diet Coke are my favorite beverages. Diet Coke is greatest commercially available beverage ever made.
- Everyday I am grateful to everyone that built the world we live in today.
Links: Email, GitHub, Scholar, X.
Credits: This website was inspired by Nat Friedman and Patrick Collison. Code mostly written by ChatGPT.