I’m a wannabe theoretical computer scientist who occasionally dabbles in non-theoretical aspects of CS.
I graduated from NIT-Trichy in Computer Science back in 2016, and from Oxford in 2017. My bachelor’s thesis focussed on applying cube attacks and distinguishers to Trivium. In my master’s thesis, I worked on Machine Teaching, a paradigm of learning where the focus is on a teacher choosing an appropriate set of labelled data points to teach a concept to a learner.
I am also learning to play the violin in the Carnatic style. If you haven’t heard about this genre before, here’s a wonderful instrumental rendition of a classic song to get you started: Manavyalakinchara