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Contact
[email protected] | Linkedin | Twitter | manasbam.com
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What I’m After
Hello world! I’m Manas, a 3rd year computer science student at the National University of Singapore and someone who’s really curious about learning and building AI.
I'll be coming to the Bay Area from Jan '25 to Dec '25 and am looking for a 1 year internship as an ML engineer. If you or someone you know is looking to hire, I’d love to get it touch!
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Things I’ve Worked On
www.yar.computer: Created an AI pendant that recognises objects, reads text, and describes scenes, providing visually impaired individuals with real-time environmental awareness.
www.gptbook.club: Created one of the first ChatGPT wrappers in 2023 that lets users ask questions to books using RAG. We grew the user base to 10,000 total users with 100K+ views on social media.
www.seekh.info: Created an app that connects needy students in India to teachers for free tuition during COVID. We grew the student and teacher community to 300 active members.
www.handwriter.in: Created a website that lets users convert typed-text into their own handwriting. More than 5,000 users have used the website for handwritten letters, postcards and more :)
When I'm not doing larger projects, I'm just learning and building things for fun - like an AI fashion rating app, a drone detector, a love poem generator, rickrolling via phone calls, Wordle on WhatsApp. You get the idea.
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Where I’ve Worked
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Lore
I grew up in Bengaluru, the startup capital of India. Childhood evenings were a mix of cricket and coming home to build stuff. Some days it was Lego scorpions (not from any manual), other days it was origami. One summer, we had this idea: sell origami door-to-door. I did what you might call a pitch. We made about Rs.346 but didn't know what to do with it, so we gave it to our school's charity fund.
Then Minecraft came in and we all wanted to make a game like it. We didn't know coding, so our first game was on Hopscotch. Around 7th grade, I emailed Airtel (India's largest mobile company) with an app idea. They didn't reply, so I thought, why not make one myself?
That's when things got interesting. I stumbled upon Andrew Ng's lectures and got hooked on ML. I found myself learning about differentiation in 9th grade, trying to understand backpropagation. It was challenging, but I was so fascinated by it all. I started experimenting with training my own models, including a mask detector during COVID. It was like a whole new world opened up.
Since then, it's been a wild ride of learning and building. I've messed around with all sorts of architectures - CNN's, RNN's, attention systems, and lately, I've been trying to wrap my head around stable diffusion. Every new thing I learn, I try to build something with it. It's like my brain won't let me rest until I've made something, anything.
I've published a game on the Play Store, created an AI pendant for the visually impaired, made a website that did my homework, and a bunch of other projects. Some worked out, some didn't, but I had so much fun learning from all of them.
That's pretty much me. An endlessly curious kid trying to make sense of this world and trying to contribute to building AGI, always learning, and always building.
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Education
Aug 2023 - Ongoing: National University of Singapore
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023: Nanyang Technological University
Aug 2020 to June 2022: Bethany High School, Bengaluru
