Ramchandran Muthukumar

Equations are easier to understand than people.

CS PhD student @ Johns Hopkins

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

Honoured to be named a CPAL Rising Star!

Looking forward to interacting with other awardees and conference organisers. Special thanks to @CPALconf for promoting young researchers.

[Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) @CPALconf]

CONGRATS to our CPAL Rising Star Awardees!! An incredibly talented and impressive bunch 💯 See who they are and what they do: https://t.co/CkaBzhdGM4

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@BTolooshams @UAlberta @AmiiThinks Congrats Bahareh!

[Bahareh Tolooshams @BTolooshams]

Recruiting PhD/MSc students to join NeuBahar Lab @UAlberta & @AmiiThinks!

We study representation learning, generative models, interpretability, world models, inverse problems & NeuroAI.

Our goal: intelligent systems that learn generalizable, mechanistically interpretable, disentangled & compositional world models.

Learn more: https://t.co/UKhQ0vBH4g

[Bahareh Tolooshams @BTolooshams]

My research group is recruiting MSc and PhD students at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Research topics include generative modeling, representation learning, interpretability, inverse problems, and neuroAI. If interested, check my website and consider applying.

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

To put this into perspective: the total amount spent on math research by the NSF since its creation is less than 1% of the market cap of bitcoin, one of the zillions things that wouldn't exist without math research.

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@aryehazan That conclusion is stronger than the evidence allows.

[Danish Pruthi @danish037]

Wow! My comments touched more nerves than I could have imagined.

I want to clarify and respond to some of the discussion. See the thread below:

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

I'm suddenly a kid again!

[Jordan Mechner @jmechner]

In 1985, I asked my brother David (age 15) to be the rotoscope model for my new game, Prince of Persia.

38 years later, I've made him a (present day) cartoon character in my new graphic novel memoir REPLAY.
https://t.co/bsLWplOdYd

Thanks, bro!

@01FirstSecond @stripepress @princeofpersia

[Zhenghan Fang @fang_zhenghan]

Presenting at #ICLR2024 with Sam Buchanan @_sdbuchanan and Jere Sulam @Jere_je_je!

We present neural networks that exactly parameterize prox operators and a new loss for learning the prox of an unknown prior!

🔗https://t.co/EivbJzy73r
📍Halle B #102
⏰Fri 10 May 10:45-12:45

[The Institute of Mathematical Sciences @IMScChennai]

IMSc celebrates birth anniversary of the first woman Fields Medalist, Maryam Mirzakhani, 12 May as International Women in Mathematics Day with a 3-day conference. For details and application: https://t.co/gnTqWycHJp

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@prof_grimmer @sp_monte_carlo Doesn’t the matrix variance parameter typically depend on the dimensions?

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@prof_grimmer I think the dimension dependence cannot be improved unless Z is approximately sparse.

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

"A random variable that depends (in a "smooth" way) on the influence of many independent random variables is essentially constant" https://t.co/OxRH2NrHwj

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

During my PhD, I've had the license to openly explore many beautiful ideas. The concentration of measure phenomenon is my standout favorite. I owe a lot of happy working hours to Talagrand, Ledoux, Vershynin, Ramon Van Handel, Boucheron, Lugosi, Massart etc.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Michel Talagrand has been awarded the Abel Prize, one of the highest honors in mathematics, for applying tools from high-dimensional geometry to complex probability problems. @jordanacep reports: https://t.co/JonxMN34u6

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@prof_grimmer Congrats Ben!

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Fields medalist Cédric Villani explains some of John Nash's most amazing theorems. https://t.co/xzMBkoUZAN

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Gunners behind the lens 📸

🎞 Go back through the archives to when our players swapped the ball for the camera �Gunners behind the lens 📸

🎞 Go back through the archives to when our players swapped the ball for the camera �Gunners behind the lens 📸

🎞 Go back through the archives to when our players swapped the ball for the camera �Gunners behind the lens 📸

🎞 Go back through the archives to when our players swapped the ball for the camera 👇

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

@Branchini_Nic I found these slides from a COLT Tutorial helpful in solidifying the differences.

https://t.co/1PtUBnytPE

[Soledad Villar @SoledadVillar5]

This project describes research with my amazing PhD students, postdocs and collaborators. I am lucky I get to learn from them.

[Mathematical Institute for Data Science- JHU @MINDS_JHU]

🌟Congrats to Prof @SoledadVillar5 who received the @NSF CAREER award for her pioneering project: "Symmetries and Classical Physics in Machine Learning for Science and Engineering." https://t.co/AiRivS4GsQ

[Ramchandran Muthukumar @ramcha1994]

What are some other gotchas? Why do these exist? Why is it tolerated that they exist?

[Gautam Kamath @thegautamkamath]

To candidates: *always* waive your right to read your letters. Not doing so can only hurt you, and annoy your letter writers (who are, in principle, your strongest allies).