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About me

Hi, I’m Pranshu 👋

Education

TIFR, Mumbai

I am a fifth-year PhD research scholar in the School of Technology and Computer Science at TIFR, Mumbai. I am working on Formal Methods with my advisor Shibashis Guha, and am co-advised by Laurent Doyen. My areas of interest include reactive synthesis and games on graphs.

Some relevant courses that I have taken include

  • Logic, Automata, and Games
  • Descriptive Complexity
  • Algebraic Automata Theory
  • Computational Complexity
  • Algebra and Computation
  • Online Algorithms

IISc, Bangalore

Previously, I did my undergraduate studies in Maths at IISc, Bangalore from 2016 to 2020. Some courses that I took in IISc include

  • Automata and Computability
  • Introduction to Scalable Systems
  • Game theory
  • Graph theory
  • Combinatorics
  • Algebra I and II
  • Topology
  • Measure theory
  • Graphics and Visualization

Hobbies

I like to walk or cycle around the city and explore new places. I like to do some street photography, eat street food, and play with street cats and dogs on the way.

I like to write puzzles. While I enjoy solving puzzles — I occasionally solve problems on Project Euler — I enjoy creating puzzles even more. Writing a puzzle that others would find interesting and would want to solve is very challenging indeed.

I love programming. I have previously dabbled with functional programming in Haskell as well as Android app development in Kotlin. I am currently learning game development using the Godot game engine.

In my free time, I read books, solve the New York Times crossword and Spelling Bee, or play bullet chess (1+0) on lichess.org.

Picture of Pranshu looking at purple lotuses in a pond
Me looking at purple lotuses in a pond

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