About

Hi!

I am Abhishek Ghose. My interests are machine learning, math, puzzles and programming. I love to read in my spare time. While my reading is not limited to those topics, posts here probably will be :)

I have a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (specifically Machine Learning). My Ph.D. research looked at reducing model sizes while minimally sacrificing their accuracy. I work a day job as a Data Scientist.

About this blog:

• Uses Jekyll and is currently hosted on GitHub pages. Citations use jekyll-scholar.
• Theme: Minima with minor changes.
• Markdown flavor: Kramdown.

Other stuff:

• A short article on using Naive Bayes to model browsing behavior. You can fine a copy here.
• Tutorial on Support Vector Machines.
• I used to be quite active on Quora. Here are some of my answers: on Gradient Boosting, model calibration, VC dimension, Jensen’s Inequality.
• I maintain this library, which is based on my Ph.D. work: compactem.