Sanjay Thakur

Interesting Things I've Done So Far

• I built and sold Markovian AI which was a data-search engine in Toronto. Think of it as a Google-for-enterprises before things like RAG, LLM was a cool thing.
• I gained the dark knowledge of controlling ML behavior at the best ML research institute in the world – Mila and published at top-tier conferences. See my Google Scholar page here. To date I have accumulated over 700 citations.
• At the age of 19 years, I built and patented an app that was purchased by the Indian Railways. I owe it to Zine which facilitated this opportunity when I was pursuing my Bachelor's degree.
• During my third year of undergraduate, I built a Smartmeter for home automation, power saving and power grid balance. It was patented and awarded the runner-up prize at GridTech'15 International Conference & Exhibition.
• I have been part of the only team that has won the most popular sports tournament of my university called Hong Kong Sixes twice in the 80+ years of university history.

Growing Up & Inspirations

I was born in Guwahati, Assam, a north-eastern state of India. However, I was raised in six different cities which are Guwahati, Trivandrum, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Neemuch, and Jaipur.

I am a big admirer of Aaron Swartz and Elon Musk and I deeply admire their work. I am even a bigger fan of Virat Kohli. I would be very happy if I can be even a fraction passionate, hard-working, go-getter, and mentally strong as he is.

There are many other personalities too who I always look up to. Some of them are Narendra Modi, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, and MS Dhoni.

Escapades

I am also a movieholic, and my favorite movie so far has been Lakshya. For some mysterious reason, I can't get enough of the Bhavesh Joshi movie either.

Sometimes you would also find me immersed into a book. I find them a great way to stimulate my mind. A couple of awesome books that I recently read and found useful are:

• A Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

That's all about me. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter. And keep following my blog for posts that I intend to get more regular about.