• 01 Mar 2020 » We find out what happens in our brains when we read programs! [arXiv], [Twitter]

• 01 Dec 2019 » Our work on dependency-graph based program representations to detect malware released. [arXiv]

• 25 Sep 2018 » Fun paper on zero-shot learning of dog breeds! [Github] Some interesting neuroscience bits to it as well! This was submitted to [SIGTBD 2019]

• 12 Jul 2018 » Loved the coursework -- Advanced NLP (6.864)[Project], Program analysis (6.820), Computer security (6.858), Machine learning (6.867) [Project], The Human Brain [Project]

• 25 Feb 2018 » Our work on derivative free minimax optimization [PDF] and deep nets for botnet detection [PDF] released.

• 31 Jul 2017 » Thanks to Bill Thies for hosting me at Microsoft Research Bangalore for a couple of days. Excited to learn about projects being run by various groups here. [Talk slides]

• 21 Jul 2017 » Attended SIGEVO summer school on evolutionary computation [Link to material] Worked on implementing Genetic Improvement to evolve a generic SAT solver's codebase to solve the CIT problem. [Link to repo]

• 01 Jun 2017 » Learnt immeasurably about rural health care in India. Lots of work to be done in this space. Lots of opportunities [Webpage]. A memorable parting gift. [image]

• 20 May 2017 » I'll be at GECCO 2017 to attend the SIGEVO summer school on evolutionary computation [details]. Promises to be a good opportunity to learn the basics of EvoComp.

• 10 Mar 2017 » Had a fun presentation and a teaching session at SIGCSE 2017! [details] Good conference to meet enthu high school CS teachers. But we may need better/serious conferences to discuss pedagogy and teaching tools in advanced undergraduate topics in CS.

• 15 Dec 2016 » Nitin Gupta's interview on ML India is out! [details] There's a cool workshop he's organizing over the weekend of 17 December. Won't be able to make it.

• 05 Nov 2016 » Excellent course by Ramesh Hariharan (from Strand) and Rajesh Sundareshan (EE, IISc) on hands-on data analysis. Great data-sets. [details]

• 19 Oct 2016 » I'll be speaking at ML India's Bangalore meetup. Be there this Sunday! [details]

• 16 Oct 2016 » Our work on data science for kids is accepted at SIGCSE '17! [details]

• 14 Oct 2016 » New word in my vocabulary - Bibliolepsy (n): The sudden and intense desire to take a nap while reviewing or writing a technical paper.

• 10 Oct 2016 » Exciting workshop on intuitive physics at NIPS 2016. Link

• 05 Oct 2016 » Informative workshop by IIIT-Delhi on zonal informatics olympiad for high school students

• 12 May 2016 » Work accepted at KDD 2016! Details.

• 01 Jun 2015 » Data science for kids is launched! [Link]

• 23 Apr 2015 » Organizing the data challenge along with Adobe Research at CODS 2016! [Link]

• 28 May 2014 » In Bangalore. Talks at Xerox Research Center India and Microsoft Research.

• 12 Feb 2013 » Going to be at IISc to attend Prof. Rupesh Nasre's talk on irregular algorithms.