Forever in undying memory of the precious few who had to die; not entirely sure what the rest (of us) are doing alive, split from our still-remaining herd.
Stickied updates:
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200 Google scholar citationsNew | Received the 200th citation a few days ago. As ever, dedicated and in memory of loved ones who left either this place or our lives, too soon, the loved ones left, and God who makes it worth it. Maybe I'm blab onto a post sometime this week... | September 2, 2024 | Click here |
Updated H-indexNew | The one I wrote early in grad school received more citations recently, causing the H-index count to now reach 4. | July 9, 2024 | Click here |
Technical Program Committee memberNew | Received letter of recommendation by conference chair to serve on the Technical Program Committee (as official IEEE paper reviewer) for the 25th annual edition of a prominent conference that's been held since 1999! | May 20, 2024 | Click here |
On invention-citation#4, and AxonNew | An(other?) unsolicited rant plus artwork - at this point, are we even surprised... [Post 2/3] | March 13, 2024 | Click here |
On invention-citation#3New | An unsolicited wall of text referred-to in the previous post; Remembering things that have come to be, 10 and 11 fucking years since precious people had to just fucking die. | February 12, 2024 | Click here |
Featured in 2 more Inventions (2+2)New | Very recently, was notified/learnt of 2 more fully granted inventions/patents which features my research (one of which shares exactly 50% base-work citation for)... I'm not done ensuring brevity/lucidity/ayy because of an unrelated recent "onset of events" (inb4 sthu, ffs... pls sos from the retroactive lobster 'mares pls) - I've been meaning to put to text this other stuff which has been growing stale on my mind - in addition to brief mentions of this "onset of events". I'll update this with over the next couple of days with a link to a | January 23, 2024 | ←←← |
New | My bitcoin research paper was organically proposed for insertion in the German Wikipedia webpage for Graphics Processor. To be honest, I'm unsure of why, but a German researcher seems to have proposed this citation to my paper in this commit, which seems to have been reviewed and approved. I wish JnX (and the other "missing" people) were still around - if you know, you know. | July 27, 2023 | ←←← |
Official IEEE reviewerNew | Was invited on official IEEE recommendation to serve as paper reviewer for a specific domain, at the 2023 3rd IEEE IET conference at Yunlin, Taiwan. 10 years ago, was my first ever published paper. I'll write about this soon. | July 10, 2023 | Click here |
Textbook citationsNew | Received 2 textbook citations - one each for the Bitcoin paper, and (my first) for the botnet paper. This prompted me to put to words things which have been growing stale in my head (link) | March 15, 2022 | ←←← |
Artwork featured | Artwork featured in Lofi/Chillstep/Chillhop channel - "Blume" with ~half a million subscribers. | January 26, 2022 | Click here |
Logo design winner - Microsoft | Winning logo (as chosen by leadership) for Microsoft's IC3 (Intelligent Conversation and Communication Cloud) - the organization responsible for the backend of Skype for Business and Teams, comprising of ~2,000 engineers. | Sometime in 2021 | Click here |
Award for performance and art - Microsoft | Awarded by CVP (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft) Scott Van Vliet, and COS (Chief of Staff, Microsoft), Nikki Outzen. | Sometime in 2021 | Click here |
Special Stock Award - Microsoft | Awarded (amount withheld from display) Special Stock Award (SSA) for performance, opensource and optimization work (in 2020) which reduced service operating costs in order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. | February 10, 2021 | N/A |
Photography award - Microsoft | Photo-compilation won at Microsoft Give 2021. Currently blown-up and wall-framed for permanent display for visitors and viewers at Microsoft Redmond Building 31. All pictures taken on campus. | January 7, 2022 | Click here |
UF Guidebook for Freshers crosses 10,000 downloads | Didn't think it would hit this number, but it did. | August 4, 2021 | Click here |
100 Google scholar citations for a single paper | My bitcoin paper earned its 100th citation - Never thought I'd see this happen. | August 10, 2021 | Click here |
Appearance in Microsoft's University Ad! | A series of events led me to being selected to appear in a Microsoft University recruitment ad! Will put up a write-up soon! (link added in Nov'19) | June 19, 2018 | Click here |
Textbook Mention! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was mentioned in a chapter on Bitcoin mining in a standard graduate textbook on Secure protocols for electronic commerce! Update: Textbook purchased! | January 2, 2017 | Click here |
Recognized by NSA ! | Placed top 100 codebreakers in National Security Agency (NSA) Codebreaker's Challenge 2016 ! Received personally signed letter of commendation from USA's NSA (National Security Agency) technical directors Neal Ziring and Jeffrey Dickerson. | January 1, 2017 | Click here |
Regular updates:
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Art ProjectNew | Repainted ~2010 artwork: "Oh my God, it's full of stars!" | January 7, 2022 | Click here |
Art ProjectNew | Repainted old artwork ~2014 - "Undying (Repaint 1)" and "Undying (Repaint 2)" | January 7, 2022 | ←←← |
Painting timelapseNew | Time lapse video of my painting of "Do you remember our dream?" | October 21, 2021 | Click here |
Art ProjectNew | Project: Schizoid Sketchings | September 17, 2021 | Click here |
100+ Google scholar citations | Got a few citation alerts at once, and realized that the last one of them had earned my 100th citation in Google scholars | October 20, 2020 | Click here |
Site update! | After recent events relating to both the past and recent past, 2nd anniversary of work at Microsoft, my health (I'm okay) and personal issues, I'm working on renovating my website to accommodate new sections ("Monologues" and a blog section), and to update the art and research sections. | June 19, 2020 | Coming soon! |
Art/Music work updated! | Added new photographs, graphics, and music creations! | November 21, 2019 | Click here |
Updated UF Guidebook! | Version: 0.8 released | November 21, 2019 | Click here |
Updated UF Guidebook! | Version: 0.7 released | November 13, 2018 | Click here |
First job at Microsoft HQ! | Started my first job at Microsoft's headquarters at Redmond! Software Developer for the Skype for Business Team. All by God's Grace! A dream of mine since the 6th grade! Will put up a write-up soon! | February 12, 2018 | Coming soon! |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in an technical paper titled " Future Applications of Blockchain in Business and Management: a Delphi study" | August 4, 2017 | Click here |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Usage of Botnets for high speed MD5 hash Cracking" was cited in an technical paper titled "End-to-End IoT Security Middleware for Cloud-Fog Communication" | July 13, 2017 | Click here |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in an technical paper titled "Breaking Down The Blockchain Hype – Towards A Blockchain Market Engineering Approach" | July 6, 2017 | Click here |
Artwork featured by popular Youtuber! | My all-time favorite work of art - "Oh my God! It's full of stars!" has been featured by MixHound! He's got 332k subs and millions of views! I've been listening to his channel for 3 years! | June 28, 2017 | Click here |
IEEE Xplore indexed ! | My paper "On the Imminent Advent of Botnet Powered Cracking" at IEEE CIC'16 was indexed today ! | Jaunary 14, 2017 | Click here |
New project ! | This project was made to help solve tasks of the NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2016 | January 1, 2017 | Click here |
Authored paper ! | Solely authored a paper titled "On the Imminent Advent of Botnet Powered Cracking". Accepted for presentation at IEEE CIC '16! | September 26, 2016 | Click here |
7 Citations earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in 5 technical articles (1 MS thesis, 2 PhD dissertations, 2 technical articles). My first paper was cited in a PhD thesis back in 2014, I noticed it only now. My last paper (as on date) recieved a citation in a technical paper. | August 23, 2016 | Click here |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in an technical paper titled "Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?" by Professor Lawrence of J.Trautman from George Washington University, who was kind enough to inform me of the citation in a very encouraging email. | May 31, 2016 | Click here |
New Drawing/Poem! | Drawing of an abstract guitar and a poem in memory of the last time I played a song to a dying man. | February 13, 2016 | Click here |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in an article by Kumkum Gupta, Sparsh Agrawal, Ashrut Bharadwaj. “Dependability of Bitcoin in E-Commerce” (2015) | February 18, 2016 | Click here |
IEEE Xplore indexed ! | The paper I co-authored with Anusha M., presented at IEMCOM'15 was indexed some time last week. | December 10, 2015 | Click here |
IEEE Xplore indexed ! | My HCI paper presented at IEEE UIC-ATC-Scalcom'14 was indexed in IEEE Xplore only yesterday. | October 31th, 2015 | Click here |
New project ! | Made a program to download manuscripts from IEEE Xplore. It keeps track of all the links provided and downloads them one by one. It has a sleek UI to save download lists, ease bulk downloads and to view download progress. I made this to quicken the process of downloading multiple papers during research | October 12th, 2015 | Click here |
First painting ! | Tried to paint for the first time. Jerry always wanted to paint. So, this is mine for him. An Acrylic and oil painting. | October 11th, 2015 | Click Here |
Citation earned ! | My paper "Bitcoin mining acceleration and performance quantification" was cited in a thesis describing a novel p2p system called the "vapor computing platform" introduced in "Using Proof-of-Assignment to solve NP problem:A platform for Vapor Computing". | September 23, 2015 | Click here |
Co-Authored new paper ! | Co-authored a new paper "An NFC featured three level authentication system for tenable transaction and abridgment of ATM card blocking intricacies". Conference: 6th IEEE IEMCON, Vancouver, Canada | July 30th, 2015 | Click here |