I mostly stare into the abyss. (Un/Re)-Learning Dasein (German translation to “Existence”).
Please look at my “now” page to know more about me.
cv at: nish1001.github.io/now/cv.pdf
Hello! I am Nish.
But you can call me Paradox because life is itself a paradox for me.
If you don’t like calling me Paradox, you can call me Gru because I look like him and I am as evil as Gru.
I am just another dot in a dot trying to “live” among the absurdities of life. I mostly call myself a nihilist, but I get emotional on a lot of things, especially getting a lot of existential crises.
In hindsight, I am a pile of atoms coming together to form broken thoughts. So yeah! That’s that. :/
Here’s something about me
Let me be ego-centric just this time. If people who, in all seriousness, ask me about myself, here are few things I’d say:
- I am a Computer Scientist at NASA-IMPACT, leading the LLM team. I work on ML research & engineering for open science, particularly NLP/LLMs for scientific knowledge discovery.
- I am trying to exist among Chaos, Caffeine and Code (and Words)
- I am interested in applied Machine Learning, NLP, Large Language Models, and designing modular, extensible, and maintainable systems
- I tend to phase out (and in) of this world. But for the sake of arguments, assume I am right here in this blog, within randomness of words, reflecting from my mind-cave.
- There were more things I used to be interested in. Not now. Perhaps, I might again. You will never know. :)
- Most of the time, I feel like an observer moving in and out, observing things (and entities) as events unfold. I feel like a highly caffeinated silhouette.
- I am just trying to see where the river flows with the help of the indefiniteness of words residing in this blog
- Last but profoundly, I am highly influenced by Feynman. That should give you some idea about an abstraction of me (Abstractions are leaky, alright!)
The professional bits
9+ years at the intersection of ML research and engineering, bridging the gap between research and practical solutions. I’ve worn many hats—founder, builder, researcher, engineer, project leader—leveraging ML to tackle real-world challenges across startups and initiatives.
I believe in continuous learning and “connecting the dots.” I advocate for foundational CS principles as crucial for effectively leveraging new technologies. My interests in ML span NLP, computer vision, MLOps, and LLMs—with a particular focus on low-resource training environments.
Beyond the technical, I explore philosophical domains: life, culture, art, progress, and the nature of existence. These explorations help reformulate my mental models and meta-learning strategies.
For other things about life, love, romance, tragedy and all the proses that evoke a sense of existential crises, I have my mind-cave: Nish Mind-Cave
Oh! I used to maintain a weekly newsletter Bits and Paradoxes (now unmaintained)