My Most Viewed/recent Medium Stories — (Updated Weekly)

Adjusting to the new normal? — I graduated and started my job remotely. Although WFH has it’s own benefits, the monotonicity got me into a slump eventually. The home workouts became irregular, sleeping pattern worsened and not meeting people for long time took a tole. …

How I took a decision — Choosing careers in itself is difficult. Add the time commitment of 5–6 years for a PhD as compared to the lucrative industry job and your mind boggles with the possibilities. I was in a similar position after my undergrad and master’s (yes both times). If you know my career path…

How you can make cold emails and messages work — The world is about networking today. The more people you know the easier it gets to navigate careers, find jobs and live your life, to be honest. But gone are the days of local meetups, conferences and networking events. Thanks to the great online platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) …

Why and how to find ‘your’ area — Machine learning can be overwhelming. I was talking to a Research Scientist (a.k.a with a Ph.D.) in my company and she mentioned how she feels insecure about her ML skills. There is so much to do. So much to learn every day. Feeling this way is independent of which career…

Counting age by changes and events not years — Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter ~ Mark Taiwan Age is indeed a number. But regardless of the inevitable process of Innate Senescence, this post makes me feel a bit old. …

Unsupervised RL and Graph Neural Nets — I attended ICML 2021 which took place last week. Although I am not a big fan of online conferences but then you get to listen to the talks with the comfort of your home. I tried to make notes this time and finally managed to formalize them mostly because such…

Realizing, unlearning, and respecting — Last year during one of the mentoring sessions, someone asked me this question. Being a women in technology people think I have an advantage at the university, job applications and at all places. Many people around me do not respect me and my skills. They think I get every opportunity…

Practical ways to find your next side ML project — There are many resources in the form of online courses for getting acquainted with the field of Machine and Deep learning. I would say there are a lot too many. …

What I am learning and what has been useful — I have been procrastinating learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) since 2 years now. I think the real reason is there’s already so much to learn. So many conferences every other week. Their papers and every field is exciting in its own beautiful way. …