Siddharth is a final-year undergraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT-WPU, Pune. He loves talking about quantum mechanics at family events and about philosophy in science classrooms – as a result, everyone hates him. Broadly, his fundamental research interests revolve around meta-learning, causal inference, some physics, and understanding the impact of data-driven algorithms on all of us. His work (including satellite image analysis) also attempts to use machine learning and statistical techniques for social good and accelerate discoveries in other scientific domains.
In his spare time, he’s usually reading – his book recommendations (The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan is his favourite recommendation), writing – his slightly whimsical blog, or playing the guitar. Every now and then, Siddharth finds some questions that he thinks about often. In general, he spends a lot of time thinking about education, meta-science, and our civilization’s technological future.
Siddharth’s grand plan is to deliver his first sermon at Sarnath, find a nice seat under a beautiful tree at Bodh Gaya, and garner a following to start his own religion after attaining enlightenment under said tree.
You can find his website at: sidsrivastava.me.