Academics

Posts related to my studies.

Experiences Featured

The MIP Computational Competition 2023

Journey through MIP competition: Striving solo, facing experts, and unexpected twists.

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My 2023 goals!

My 2023 goals about PhD, career, finance, chess, book reading and more...

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Explaining math visually

Learning how to create engaging math animations using manim.

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Is most published research wrong?

Scientific research can be manipulated through p value and other hacks. Let's explore how.

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8 drives that make research addictive

Octalysis by Yu-Kai Chou explains why research is as addictive as games!

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My TA experience so far...

What is it like to be a teaching assistant at Polytechnique Montreal?

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Writing a scientific paper

Key elements to think about while writing a scietific paper. Lessons I learned from experience and a course.

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Effective academic writing

Writing science is significantly different from other forms of writing. Here are some tips I learned recently to write more effectively.

Negotiation

Negotiation 101: What is the pie?

Math behind fair negotiation between two parties. Figuring out what are we negotiating about.

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My first conferences as a PhD student

My overall experience from preparation to post presentation in the optimization days and mobilit.ai conferences.

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My PhD journey so far

Documenting the experience so far since I started my PhD.

Book Review Featured

Methods for deeper learning

Tips about learning effectively from the book Make it stick.

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How I fell in love with math?

In my high school, I was good at Math. At least according to the school exam standards. I was consistently scoring high numbers in exams. My math teachers used to encourage me to participate in other math exams and competitions that are not related to my textbooks. I also liked

Lifestyle

Why am I still single? The mathematical justification.

Stable marriage problem and its application to real-world relationships.

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My first graduate teaching experience

“When a teacher is a friend/relatable; it creates an invisible layer of accountability. Making the student a better student and in turn the teacher a better teacher.” ― Ethan Castro This Tuesday, on March 8, I had my first graduate level teaching experience. In this post, I will walk you

Study skills

Becoming a pro student (part 2)

Let’s continue our journey to become a pro student. In the last part [https://www.krooonal.com/pro-student-1/], we discussed a couple of study techniques called spacing and active learning. In this part, we will not discuss any particular study techniques. Instead, we will try to resolve some major

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Learning to teach better!

Sharing my learnings from a course about teaching.

Study skills

Becoming a pro student (part 1)

A lot of students have asked me for study tips in the past. In this post, I am going to share a few. Some of them I followed during my undergraduate and graduate courses, and the rest I learned later. The goal here is not to study all the time

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Explaining my research to a high school student

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” ― Albert Einstein In this post, I am going to take up a challenge. I don’t think I am at the level where I can explain my PhD research topic to

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My Journey from a SWE at Google to a PhD student

Recently almost everyone who met me, asked me why I left my (hidden words: high paying) job and decided to go for a PhD. I would normally end up giving them a short answer like "Because I wanted to get into academia" or "Because I wanted to

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My Interview with BITS Echo

Recently my BITS Alumni Relations team interviewed me about my work at Google and transition to PhD student. The January 2022 issue of the magazine can be found here [https://bit.ly/3FF0pAq] and here [https://bit.ly/3pCpy9s]. Thank you BITS Alumni Relations team for the interview ! Here are