I'm a freshman at Columbia studying mathematics and computer science. I grew up in Kolkata, which means I had monsoons instead of snow days.
I'm interested in AI safety and I'm trying to learn it properly before I start pretending I know things. Right now that looks like building transformers from scratch, working through the ARENA curriculum, and reading more papers than is probably healthy for someone who also has a Lit Hum midterm on Dante.
I have a wandering problem. I've simulated neutron transport through fusion reactor blankets to find better tritium breeding materials. I'm training Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks on plasma data at Columbia's plasma physics lab. I built a browser automation agent called Sisyphus because that felt appropriate, and a visual AI agent builder called Dorian. At my first hackathon I built a real-time sign language translator that can join your Google Meet calls. I sometimes make math animations with Manim when I want to understand something badly enough to explain it to a render engine.
I play drums, read Wodehouse between problem sets, and think the most underrated skill in research is knowing when you're confused and admitting it out loud.
- AI safety research through the Laidlaw Scholars Program (summer 2026)
- LLM causal reasoning benchmark at ARiSE Lab, Columbia
- KANs for plasma modeling at Columbia's plasma physics lab
- CAIAC Advanced Technical Fellowship: micrograd, transformers, ARENA
Roald Dahl and P.G. Wodehouse. Pokemon. Sitcoms I've seen three times and movies I haven't seen once. Beatles songs, especially the ones where they're clearly making it up as they go. A Mathematician's Lament. Linear algebra more than abstract algebra, and analysis more than both. Teaching people things and watching it click. Sidequests. The first ten minutes of any research paper before I realize I need three prerequisite papers. Long walks on the Columbia campus when it's cold enough that nobody else is outside. Kolkata in December.