Lab and art

Beyond Research

Research is what I do. It isn't all of who I am.

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♟ Chess

Strategy, puzzles, and thoughts about calculation under uncertainty — coming soon.

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📷 Photography

Places, people and details worth remembering — coming soon.

🌐 Travel

Kaohsiung skyline. Photo: 毛貓大少爺, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — placeholder until I add my own.
Kaohsiung skyline. Photo: 毛貓大少爺, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — placeholder until I add my own.
Taipei skyline. Photo: 毛貓大少爺, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — placeholder until I add my own.
Taipei skyline. Photo: 毛貓大少爺, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — placeholder until I add my own.

Conference travel has been the main occasion so far — most recently the 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC 2023), held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with a side trip to Taipei. Chess took me to a few campuses during the M.Tech years at Nirma University, and there’s been some exploring around Chennai during the PhD besides.

  • Conference travel: Kaohsiung · Taipei (ASPACC 2023)
  • Chess tournaments (M.Tech years, Nirma University): IIT Guwahati (winter) · IIT Kharagpur · Bhopal (All India Chess Federation tournament) · SVNIT, Surat
  • Exploring around Chennai (PhD years): Yelagiri · Ooty · Mahabalipuram · Chennai (beaches & museums)

Map: Leaflet, tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

📚 Books & Ideas

Books and questions that shaped how I think — see the bookshelf.