Personal
I was born in Kerala, India (Kerala is a small state in southern India known for its backwaters and beautiful green landscape – some pictures from my visit). When I was 8, I moved to St. Louis, Missouri with my family. During my highschool and undergraduate years in St. Louis, I developed a passion for mathematics and science. This eventually led me to Ames, Iowa to pursue this passion in my graduate studies!
In our free time, some friends at Iowa State and I competed in the 2016 Prudsys Data Mining Cup. We had a lot of fun in the competition while learning a lot about machine learning and data mining in the process. We ended up placing second in the international competition and traveling to Berlin, Germany to present our solution! (Check out some pictures of us).
