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Thoughts, insights, and updates from my journey in academia and life

How to Undergrad

Sep 24, 2020  |  20 minute read
As I end my undergraduate journey, it’s hard to not feel nostalgic, especially amid this sad pandemic because of which this journey was shortened by nearly 3.5 months. It was,...

An Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits and Markov Decison Processes

Nov 11, 2019  |  22 minute read
I took the course Foundations of Intelligent and Learning Agents in Autumn 2019 offered by Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan at IIT Bombay. I found the course content very exciting and decided...

Batch Arm Pulls for Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits

Nov 04, 2019  |  7 minute read
I took the course Advanced Concentration Inequalities in Autumn 2019 offered by Prof. Sharayu Moharir at IIT Bombay. This is a blog post about the work I did for the...

Voice Conversion using GANs: An Extensive Review

Jun 13, 2019  |  18 minute read
For my project on code-mixed speech recognition with Prof. Preethi Jyothi, I did a literature review of voice conversion and found a lot of recent papers that used GANs for...

Compressed Sensing and Dictionary Learning for Video Capturing

May 26, 2019  |  12 minute read
I took the course Recent Topics is Analytical Signal Processing in Spring 2019 offered by Prof. Animesh Kumar at IIT Bombay. This is a blog post about the work I...

Semantic Image Inpainting for Medical Images with Deep Generative Models

May 07, 2019  |  14 minute read
I took the course Medical Image Computing in Spring 2019 offered by Prof. Suyash Awate at IIT Bombay. This is a blog post about the work I did for the...

Computer Graphics: Music Box Modelling, Rendering and Animation

Nov 10, 2018  |  8 minute read
I took the course Computer Graphics in Autumn 2018 offered by Prof. Parag Chaudhuri at IIT Bombay. This is a blog post about the work I did for the course...

Tutorial on Attention-based Models (Part 2)

Jun 11, 2018  |  19 minute read
In part one of this series, I introduced the fundamentals of sequence-to-sequence models and attention-based models. I briefly mentioned two sequence-to-sequence models that don't use attention and then introduced soft-alignment...

Tutorial on Attention-based Models (Part 1)

Jun 02, 2018  |  37 minute read
Teaser: The task of learning sequential input-output relations is fundamental to machine learning and is especially of great interest when the input and output sequences have different lengths. Applications such...