Hi! A big thank you for landing here. I don’t blog often; when I do, it feels great that someone else took out time to read it and hopefully take away a few things from it as well. If you know me already, you might have read Part 1 and 2 of my journey. If not, take out a few more minutes and read them first. You will be able to connect the dots much better, I promise! From the work I did with Prof. Kristina Lerman at University of Southern California in summer 2015, we ended up writing a research paper. After many hours put in, more than a…

As I sit down to pen this blog, some wonderful memories put a smile on my face. To provide context for some of the things I am going to mention, here is the first one I wrote. It has been slightly more than three years since I joined Precog and no amount of words can completely express my utter gratitude.   Before my emotions overwhelm the words I am about to write, let me briefly summarise what all I have been doing as a Precog-ger. The work I did during my first year at Precog is neatly compiled here. Starting my second year, I worked on a social media analytics…

It all began with an interview with two PhD students and I in PK’s office in April’2013. I was being interviewed for the position of a summer intern at Precog, a research group at my institute IIITD. I had no clue of what I was going to do the coming summer being a part of the group. Being  the youngest member, I often had to be guided.  But the best part about working under PK is that you are never told what to do, you are just shown ways which makes your work so much more exciting and challenging. Having read all the papers published by the PhDs working at…