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Work
Mercurie.ai: I am currently building www.mercurie.ai to make healthcare simpler and smarter for everyone. The platform helps doctors spend less time on paperwork and more time with patients by turning conversations into comprehensive, detailed medical notes and making patient information instantly accessible. Our AI ensures that treatment instructions and medical advice are crystal clear, reducing follow-up queries and potential misunderstandings. For patients, it makes it super easy to store, understand, and share medical records with trusted family members and healthcare providers. The aim is to create better connections between doctors and patients, leading to healthier, happier outcomes for all.
Goldman Sachs: My previous employment was as a quantitative strategist in the Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities team of Global Markets division at Goldman Sachs. There I developed statistical market models and Monte Carlo based pricers for valuation of financial derivatives and for hedging financial risks. You can check out my personal notes on theory of derivative pricing here.
JustApplause: I designed and engineered www.justapplause.com from ground up. JustApplause was a platform where users could announce live events and performances to the community, and support events they believed in and were inspired by. Though the platform is no longer active, building it gave me an opportunity to dive into the startup world, and learn business planning, marketing and full stack technical skills.
My LinkedIn profile has more details.
Education
I did my undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Out of keen interest I took several courses in Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics too.
By junior year I realized String Theory was the subject I wanted to focus on, and I took study/research projects at IIT Bombay and at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research towards that. These are some of my project reports:
- Geometry in Physics (2012). BTech Seminar. Based on initial chapters of the book ’Geometry, Topology and Physics’ by M. Nakahara.
- Planar Limit Analysis Of Matrix Models (2013). BTech Project I.
- Information in Black Hole Radiation (2014). A write-up for a chalkboard lecture/presentation I gave at TIFR.
- Holographic Entanglement Entropy (2014). BTech Project II, and part of projects at TIFR.
I realized that to be able to properly work in String Theory, I needed to learn much more maths than was set in my physics curriculum. So I chose Mathematics Part III with focus on Algebraic Geometry for my graduate studies at University of Cambridge, which turned out to be intense but exhilarating.
I worked on several other project topics as well during my undergraduate studies:
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Shape parameter of Gamma distribution (2012). An assignment for the Statiscal Inference course.
- Hypothesis Testing for Shape parameter of Gamme distribution (2012). Presentation for the Statistical Inference course.
- Higher Order Associative Memories and their Optical Implementation (2012). Presentation for the Photonics course.
Interests
Programming: I very much like to contribute back to the open source community whenever I can and I have published some of my work as libraries on my GitHub page. I also have a few short scripts, to explore some new programming domains, on my GitHub Gist page.
Science: I love science and I regularly read research papers. I recently did some calculations in fluid dynamics and geometry, and the work was published in Physical Review Fluids. The program we wrote to do the simulations for our research is available on GitHub.
Gaming: When I get some leisure time, I tend to spend it on my PlayStation. These days I have mostly been playing 'Overwatch 2' and 'Elden Ring' (yes, I still haven't completed it). Some of my all-time favorite games are 'Kingdom Hearts II', 'Shadow of the Colossus', 'NieR:Automata' and 'Sekiro'.
Manga: My favorite ongoing manga is 'One Piece'. I learnt a little Japanese in my undergrad senior year, but did not get to practise it much apart from the time I was invited to Japan (thank you Japanese government!).
Photography: I had an interest in photography since an early age when my dad gifted me my first camcorder, but that broke a few years ago (not my fault), and my interest lay dormant until when my brother gifted me an awesome new camera. Some of my photographs are available on Flickr.
Cooking: At Cambridge, my college cafetaria was a bit far from my residence, so I gathered courage and decided to cook my own food for the first time. It turned out to be pretty good. Pics are on this Google album. These days, my favorite dish to cook is spaghetti.
Piano: I have been learning piano on my own for the last few months and I can now play 'Moonlight Sonata' decently well. My first recording is available on Youtube.
Dance: I took hip-hop dance classes for a year in London and loved them. I hope to go back again someday.
Some Amusing Thoughts
The holographic principle in string theory suggests that the dynamics of space-time is equivalent to the dynamics on its boundary. Like in a hologram, where a 3D graphic is encoded in a 2D layer. Does that mean our fates really are written in the stars?! o.O
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