My name is Surya. I’m presently doing my MSc Computer Science at McGill University and Mila. I work on ideas at the intersection of reinforcement learning and neuroscience with Blake Richards. I’m interested in helping the research community collectively figure out the general principles behind intelligence.
I’ve been collaborating with researchers at several institutes including RWTH Aachen, IISc Banglore, Defense Research Development Organisation and NIT Warangal.
Recent talks
- 17th Jan 2019: Gave a talk on the paper “A deep learning framework for neuroscience” at Mila (Neural AI reading group) – with Yoshua Bengio and Blake Richards. (slides) (video will be up soon)
- 13th Sept 2019: Gave a talk on the paper “The Successor Representation: Its Computational Logic and Neural Substrates” at Mila (Neural AI reading group). (slides) (video)
- 12th Aug 2019: Gave a talk on the paper “What does it mean to understand a neural network” at Mila (Cognitive AI reading group). (slides) (video)
- 15th July 2019: Gave a talk on the paper “Reinforcement learning, fast and slow” at Mila (Cognitive AI reading group). (slides) (video)
- 10th June 2019: Gave a talk on the paper “Modeling the brain and dendritic solutions to the credit assignment problem” at Mila (Cognitive AI reading group). (slides) (video)
New year resolutions and related updates:
- My resolutions for 2020
Initiatives
- Organisation - Game Automators
- YouTube Channel - The Motivated Engineer (2.4 million views, 11.2 thousand subscribers)
- YouTube Channel - My Viewpoint (65 thousand views, 660 subscribers)
- Podcast - Thinking Out Loud
- Podcast - Students Productivity