Sanjay

PhD student, Automatic Control Lab @eth_en with Florian Dörfler
Interested in Optimization-based control & State estimation
Free time: mountains & via ferrata.

[Florian Dörfler @florian_dorfler]

Registration is open! Secure your place at the Swiss CLOCK Summit: https://t.co/asaQi5iSVq

CLOCK stands for Computation, Learning, Optimization & Control. Taking place in Engelberg, Switzerland on September 2-5, the event offers inspiring plenaries and interactive sessions.

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Trump creates his own cryptocurrency, earns $7 billion overnight and lots more for his insiders and pulls the rug, thousands of people losing their life savings. Elon Musk doing the n@zi salute in a public forum. USA's future doesn't look too great at this point, and scary tbh 🫣

[Florian Dörfler @florian_dorfler]

Mark your calendars for THE (certainly mine) main event next year -- the Swiss CLOCK Summit
https://t.co/asaQi5iSVq
featuring an all-star team of researchers from Computation, Learning, Optimization, and Control

@nccr_automation @CSSIEEE @IFAC_Control

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Only 3 hours? 🤣🤣 More like 💩 posting on X ever since X began

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Me for the past 3 hours 💩posting on 𝕏

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

@AmritamDas3 Absolutely 🙈

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Says the guy who posts unbearable bs 24/7 on X

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I instantly lose respect for anyone who posts on LinkedIn. Unbearably cringe.

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

@givrntakr If you attempt to prepare a full list of all their recorded terror attacks on paper, we'd have to cut down all the trees in the world for the required paper.

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

@chrisoffner3d This is an issue not just in CH. Students in the US have it far worse, as the tuition fees is insane and they have only 90 days to find a job after studies. I've heard many nightmare-ish tales from Indian students who come back to India with a huge debt and without a job.

[Florian Dörfler @florian_dorfler]

Topic of today’s group meeting (after digesting fries and burgers): “how can we become less of a group and more of a team?”

[inControl podcast @inControlpdcst]

New season! 🎉 And we kick off with a real gem 😊 @MuntherDahleh (@MIT) takes us on a journey from L1 control to agile robotic maneuvers, the power of abstractions, cascaded failures, markets, and the role of data and systems thinking in solving societal problems.🌍 Don’t miss out! 🎙️🚀

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

I really wish Elon could stick to tech.
As an Indian whose ancestors suffered under the British, I beg to differ. I suggest to read up on all the famines they created to weaken us and to ensure we don't rebel (esp. by Churchill, who was an absolute monster)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not many people these days know that the British Empire was the driving force behind ending the vast majority of global slavery.

Slavery or de facto slavery was standard practice throughout the world from the dawn of civilization until a few hundred years ago. It is even discussed at length in the Bible, for example.

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

@giu_depa @florian_dorfler 📌Key takeaway: By accounting for social network dynamics and consciously working to reduce polarization, it’s possible to maintain user engagement without amplifying division.

Check it out here: https://t.co/qfzsACAzio

@nccr_automation

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Paper alert❗️❗️
As the US elections approach, have you ever scrolled through social media and noticed how polarized opinions have become? 🤔

1/4

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

💡 The solution? Together with @giu_depa , Giuseppe Belgioioso, and @florian_dorfler , we developed a recommender system that acts as a feedback controller, designed to both boost engagement and actively reduce polarization.

3/4

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Location: ✔️
IFA shirt: ✔️
Friendly people: ✔️
Insightful conversations: ✔️
Fun activities: ✔️
Exciting workshops: ✔️
My first retreat in my PhD in @florian_dorfler's group was a lot of fun! Weather was the only problem but who cares about it when you have an amazing group!

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

A very wholesome event: 2 days back as I was hiking in the Alps from 🇦🇹 to 🇨🇭, I still had ~15km after a 17km hike. Although I planned to do it, a random elderly couple in a car stopped and offered to drop me at the nearest dorf. Swiss folks are one of the kindest people ever ❤️

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

@florian_dorfler Is it near the Goescheneralpsee in Uri by any chance? The mountains in the background resemble the Dammastock range.

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Then a talk on Online Feedback Optimization by @florian_dorfler . Although I have heard numerous talks on it already, it never gets boring when Florian talks about it. His slides and presentation methods are always exciting to hear, even if it's for the 100th time

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Then a talk by Prof. Sarah Dean on identifying preference dynamics of users in recommender systems. Very exciting talk as it was very relevant to the work in my master thesis :) #icml #ICML2024

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

Then a talk by Prof. Sarah Dean on identifying preference dynamics of users in recommender systems. Very exciting talk as it was very relevant to the work in my master thesis :) #icml #ICML2024

[Sanjay @Sanjayc_01]

The FoRLaC workshop starts with Prof. Miroslav Kristic explaining research on stability guarantees when closed-loop feedback maps are represented by deep neural networks.