PinnedIn Response to “What’s the F-ing Point?”A response to an article discussing our purpose in this world combined with a discussion of my own purpose My best friend Sajiv wrote an article titled “What’s the F-ing Point?” where he discussed the common mindset of privileged students at our school, and why he believes we should break…Self Improvement13 min readSelf Improvement13 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyBurnout — The Bane of ProgressHow being an AI developer, hacker, and researcher lead to some of my lowest moments — Helplessness. Panic. Hopelessness My best attempt to describe a burnout. For programmers, developers, and researchers, burnout is an all too common experience that can completely halt productivity and ruin mental states. Traditional problems can be addressed if the source is known. As programmers, we all know that if we understand…Burnout7 min readBurnout7 min read
Published inBetter Programming·PinnedMember-onlyHow Five High-Schoolers Won $9.5K From Hackathons in One SummerCoding, winning prizes, and proving ourselves — Authored by Ayaan Haque, Adithya Peruvemba, Viraaj Reddi, Sajiv Shah, and Ishaan Bhandari. Background Let’s start with a quick disclaimer: We say $9.5k, but most of the prizes are actually virtual credits from various tech companies. In terms of tangible prizes,(e.g. AirPods), we won about $3k. But enough about our inflated…Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
Aug 11, 2022Member-onlyWorking in Industry Research at 18My experience as an AI research intern at a big-tech company — This summer, I had the opportunity to intern at Samsung SDSA as an AI research intern. I was part of the Artificial Intelligence team and worked on self-supervised and 3D vision problems. In this article, I’d like to share my experience working in a big-tech company as an 18-year-old and…Industry8 min readIndustry8 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jun 9, 2022Member-onlyConsistent Semi-Supervised, Explainable Multi-Tasking for Medical ImagingMultiMix: Sparingly Supervised, Extreme Multitask Learning from Medical Images — In this article, I will discuss a new semi-supervised, multi-tasking medical imaging method called MultiMix, by Ayaan Haque (me), Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran, Adam Wang, and Demetri Terzopoulos. Our paper was accepted to ISBI 2021 in the full-paper track and was presented at the conference in April. The extension of our paper…Artificial Intelligence16 min readArtificial Intelligence16 min read
Jun 2, 2022Member-onlyMy Journey Learning AI, and What’s NextA reflection on my journey through AI starting at age 16, and what my plans are going forward — Since I’m graduating high school this week, I’ve been in a reflective mood. I wanted to write a lot on Medium this last semester, but I ended up deciding not to until now. Writing on Medium about AI has been a big part of my journey through AI—it’s helped me…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 23, 2021Member-onlyTowards Greater Purpose in AI ResearchMy view on the current state of deep learning research and what I’ll do to change it — Recently, I watched this TED Talk: The video describes Einstein’s contributions to the field of physics in 1905. In 4 separate papers, he theorized the particle nature of light, a new atomic model, special relativity, and the world-famous E=MC² equation. How does this relate to me? Well, I’m an…Research9 min readResearch9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Aug 22, 2021Member-onlySSWL-IDN: Self-Supervised CT DenoisingA review of our recent CT Denoising paper “Window-Level is a Strong Denoising Surrogate” — In this article, I will discuss our recent work, a new self-supervised CT denoising method: SSWL-IDN, by Ayaan Haque (me), Adam Wang, and Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran, from Saratoga High School and Stanford University’s RSL. In this paper, we introduce SSWL-IDN, a novel self-supervised CT denoising window-level prediction surrogate task. Our method…Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Aug 17, 2021Member-onlySmartphone-Based Retinal Camera Rig for AI ScreeningA blog and description of a smartphone system used for AI retinal imaging — Recently, I completed a project for my organization, Drishti, which performs AI-based Diabetic Retinopathy screening for rural areas in Bangladesh. To take retinal scans without full-cost retinal cameras, we built a rig that can house a smartphone to take these images. The images can then be uploaded to our research-backed…Artificial Intelligence3 min readArtificial Intelligence3 min read
Jul 19, 2021This is a very good article — thank you. A couple of thoughts:51rw2718Hello,Hello, Thanks for your response. On the idea that theory is not as important, I do agree that this is certainly true. For most ML engineer jobs, you will not really need to understand a lot of the conceptual theory. However, a concern I have developed is that if so…1 min read1 min read
