Essays
On what I study and build: learning systems, decisions, data, and the craft of research.
2026
- Preferred Problem Spaces — Building My Career Around What Keeps Me Curiousessayphilosophy
- The Next Starting Lineessayphilosophy
- Complex Systems, Not Integrations: What Forward-Deployed/AI Engineering Is Missingessayscience · engineering
- Pre-NEET: the story the data missed, and how people misread Tamil Naduessayscience · philosophy
- Our first job was forward deployed engineering — or maybe beyond thatessayengineering · philosophy
- Curriculum as a Living Systemessayengineering · philosophy
- How I Built Myself a Curriculum From Zero (thinking out loud with an AI)essayphilosophy · science
- A Letter to a Fellow Mu Sigman — Don't You Think You Should Quit the Job?essayphilosophy
- Scaling the Learning Experience (as a Human)essayphilosophy · science
- How Kavin Aravindhan Shaped His Career — From a Fresher to Advanced Master's Research at Columbia | A Conversationdialoguephilosophy
- Arcs of Workessayphilosophy · science
- Decision Engineering: A Unified, Structural Stack for Holistic Problem Solvingessayengineering · science
- A Map of the Hands-On AI Landscape: Where to Build, What to Learn, and Where to Go All Inessayphilosophy · engineering
- Is Data Science Dead? Or What Makes the Field More Alive?essayphilosophy · science
- How DSI Solutions Is Winning the E-Commerce Battle with Agentic AIessayengineering · science
- Whom to Work Under: A Filter That Took Six Years to Buildessayphilosophy
- Agents as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Design and Study Frameworkessayscience · engineering
- The Work Speaksessayphilosophy · engineering
- Portfolio as a System, Not a Showcaseessayphilosophy
- On Becoming a Research Engineer: A Denoising Step Toward Clarityessayphilosophy
- The $100 Event: A Socratic Dialogessayphilosophy
- Bounded Rationality and How Graduate Students Choose Their Coursesessayscience · philosophy
- Three Pillars: A Research Strategy for the Age of Agentic AIessayscience · engineering
- Notes on Spring 2026 Electives at Columbiaessayphilosophy · science
- Building AI Agents: What You Actually Need to Think Aboutessayscience · engineering
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 3essayphilosophy
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 2essayphilosophy
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 1essayphilosophy
- Bootcamps, Online Courses, and LinkedIn Influencers: A Misleading Startessayphilosophy · science
- Columbia MS in Data Science: An Honest Perspectiveessayphilosophy · science
- Career, Interest, Passion, Agency — My Eight-Year Journeyessayphilosophy
- Everything About Analytics: Signals, Systems, and the Art of Making Senseessayscience · engineering
- A Clear-Eyed Roadmap to Applied AI and ML Engineering in 2026 (Part 2)essayscience · engineering
- A Clear-Eyed Roadmap to Applied AI and ML Engineering in 2026 (Part 1)essayscience · engineering
2025
- The 2026 Roadmap: Data Scienceessayscience · engineering
- The Aha Moment — On Cognitive Architectures and Learningessayphilosophy · science
- Learning as a Denoising Diffusion Processessayscience · philosophy
- Finding Your Taste — Career Flavors in AI/ML/Data Scienceessayphilosophy · engineering
- The Learn-Experiment-Interact Loop — A Philosophy for Navigating Complexityessayphilosophy · science
- You Are Not My Type! — Archetypes Among Grad Studentsessayphilosophy · science
- 50 Shades of Linear Regressionessayengineering · science
- A Letter to My Fellow Grad Students — Navigating the AI Era Togetheressayphilosophy
- My First Week at Columbia — Crafting the Perfect ML/Data Science Course Portfolioessayphilosophy · science
- Correlation Still Matters — Why We Shouldn't Abandon Association in Our Rush to Causationessayscience