About Me
Hi! I am Neeraj Rajesh, and I am everything that big header up there says. My first computer was a Pentium II, Windows 98 with a whopping 32 megabytes of RAM and a humongous 5 gigabytes of storage on a hard disk the twice the size of my child face. IT WAS MAGNIFICENT! (is what the child said, the adult wants GNU/Linux!!) I was enamoured by how it worked and had to know more ... some say to this day I am still in the pursuit of more!
I also moved a lot as a child and have been lucky to experience different cultures and cuisines at a young age. I am pretty passionate about food, language, history and trade and how they all played a huge role, good or bad, in our culture and marvelling at the food we (the human race) made along the way.
tldr; I like food and I'm a nerd. Excelsior! \m/
Research Interests
I started out with an interest for learning how to program. Learnt C, C++ (lotta opinions about ++ there but love it none the less) and checked out Java (loathed it). Python was my preference of a high level language. My quest into AI later helped on furthering my love for it. This motivated me to want to understand how computers and all the 1s and 0s came together. When I learnt about the concept of Artificial Intelligence, it blew me away. I began with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, which also piqued my interest in language. When I checked out Neural Networks they marveled me. I reached a crossroads which got me excited on how Machine Learning and other AI techniques could be applied to make Systems and High Performance Computers faster, and here we some time after that.
Key Research Areas:
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- HPC
- ML-Assisted Systems
Publications
Misc. Interests
Apart from all that fun stuff I am also a big fan of Free and Open Source Software, though I am quite fond of Slackware. While its not free, it's hard to be when free nVidia drivers don't work well for a decent Neural Network model. I am also looking at different communications protocols, like XMPP and Matrix, and checking them out. I'm also quite interested in the potential of low power ARM SBCs, which do pack a decent punch, to take back ownership of ones everyday data, as well as data ownership. I tend to be partial to protocols that are federated. I dunno if you have realized but web dev is not really one of mine, though I am a fan of self hosting.
Like what you see?
Don't be a stranger, reach out and let's chat!!