A lovely day at the Huntington.

I had posters in two sessions: Machine learning for social computing and Networks across disciplines I got some great feedback and actually managed to understand a few talks. One interesting thing that I saw a few presentations about involved decomposing a matrix as a sum of a low rank and a sparse matrix. This can [...]

I almost missed my wordpress domain mapping expiring, I guess that’s what happens when you never blog. What has happened since March? Oh, we bought a house and moved. More friends got their PhDs and moved on. My sister got married. Lots of fun summer stuff in LA. I got rid of my car, got [...]

I still haven’t done any updating. But I saw a great talk at the ISI retreat about maintaining your research web page. Bibbase automatically converts bibtex files into awesome dynamical web code.

My digital self needs a real facelift. I’m sort of annoyed that any institution specific research web page vanishes when you leave. Therefore I’m considering either keeping all research related notes on this website or on my nascent academia.edu web page. In the past year, I finished my PhD in physics at Caltech, did a [...]

At the De Young museum, you change the art just by observing it!

In menlo park.

Not bad isi, but you should try not being so far away from Pasadena, the center of the universe.

Some flowers in our garden.

1) lost souls cafe 2) stairwell in new astro building