Updated: The Ides of March, 2024

About

What you can and cannot find on this site

Updated: The Ides of March, 2024

Contents

  1. Colophon
    1. Design Principles
    2. Favourite Blogs
  2. Contact

Mother tells me,
the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet,
that two fates bear me on to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies...
true, but the life that's left me will be long,
the stroke of death will not come on me quickly.

- Achilles

Hello, my name is Gandhi and I work on research problems in machine learning. This is wonderful because I get to work on a very exciting intersection of two things I enjoy very much: mathematics and computer programming. I am currently studying the many ways neural networks learn data from two or more modalities, especially auditory and visual information.

I am a Masters student in Computer Science at CVIT in IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Vineet Gandhi. Previously, I completed my undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee, India where I worked with Indrajit Ghosh on faster traffic event detection methods using NLP techniques and studied automatic traffic control systems using simulations of heterogenous traffic flow.

Broadly, I'm interested in finding simple and clean solutions to learning tasks, and I believe that multimodal artificial intelligence is ripe for new simple ideas that need to be discovered patiently.

When I'm not in front of a blackboard or a computer, I play football and read books. A Lot. I write quite a bit too but I can't stand reading the stuff I've written which is probably what a lot of writers feel, I have a Substack to which I hope to start and keep publishing.

 Some things I believe in:
  • Move Fast. Move Faster.
  • Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done. Job Finished?
  • You can't improve what you can't measure.
  • The laws of physics are the only true limits, you can do more than you think.
  • Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Moonshots I would work on if I had the resources:
  • Urban Design. Cities that are green, clean, vibrant and community-centred.
  • Biology. Understand addiction, aging and cancer.
  • History. Find Alexander's lost tomb

Colophon

Under the hood, this website is built using hand coded HTML5 and CSS. Mathematics is typeset with the help of MathJax. I use the NeoVim text editor and Jekyll for development and Github Pages for deployment. Fonts used are Equity Text and Triplicate C4 designed by Matthew Butterick.

Design Principles

  • Speed and efficiency $>$ Design Aesthetics
  • Visual differences $\implies$ Semantic differences
  • Content should score high in correctness, novelty, and importance
  • Reader $>$ Author

Favourite Blogs

Contact

Write to my inbox, schedule a call, or leave anonymous feedback. I am occasionally active on Mathstodon and Substack Notes

Updated: The Ides of March, 2024