About

I’ve also had brushes with research and startups:

• Plasma attenuation for electrodeposition at Chalk River Labs
• Image Processing with Shapelet functions
• Protein modeling for prion aggregation
• Fluid modeling for nanocellulose (Unnamed startup)
• Fluid modeling for cryocoolers (Intelline)
• Privacy preserving ML (EnSnif)
• Explicit vs implicit associations in curriculum learning for reinforcement learning

I love traveling and reading. I’ve found a way to combine the two by picking up a book written by a local author in every new city I visit. I started this ‘tradition’ when I impulsively went into a bookstore in Barcelona and asked them to recommend a story written by a local author. That story was The Shadow Of The Wind by Zafon. I wasn’t too sure I would like this genre but the librarian was genuinely delighted by the book. I’ve never been so happy to have run headlong into life, caught in the serendipity of discovery, and be rewarded with a story that feels like it was always meant to find me. I can only describe it as an ode to storytelling and it made me realize that I needed to diversify my reading diet. Hence this tradition.

I attempt to bike, garden and snowboard.

I really like podcasts where they talk about tech or policy more abstractly or romantically (as opposed to how to navigate academia, how popular a tech stack is, who’s making the most money, etc.):

• Signals and Threads
• Building Better Systems
• Generally Intelligent
• Deepmind
• Goldman Sachs: Top of Mind
• Economist
• Gradient Dissent
• If I Ran The Bank
• I would list some true crime podcasts but that’s a rabbithole neither of us want to go back into

I like these youtube channels:

• Primer
• Numberphile
• Computerphile
• Ted-Ed
• 3Blue1Brown
• OpenAI
• ViHart
• Mathemaniac

If you’d like to connect with me, please do so through ankil335@gmail.com, Linkedin, Github, or my Instagram.