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General Information

Full Name Yash Mehta
Date of Birth Dec 1995
Languages English, Hindi

Experience

  • 2022 - now
    Research Engineer 2
    HHMI Janelia Research Campus
    • with, Jan Funke & James Fitzgerald
  • 2020-2021
    Research Engineer
    Machine Learning Lab, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
    • with, Frank Hutter
  • 2019 - 2020
    Research Technician
    Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
    • with, Peter Latham & Tim Lillicrap (DeepMind)
  • 2018 - 2018
    Software Development Engineer
    Amazon

Education

  • 2018
    BSc. Research Thesis
    Erik Cambria, NTU Singapore
  • 2014 - 2018
    Btech, Computer Science
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani)

Open Source Projects

  • 2021-2022
    NASLib & NASBench-Suite
    • NASLib is a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) library for facilitating NAS research for the community by providing interfaces to several state-of-the-art NAS search spaces and optimizers.
  • 2021-now
    Awesome Transformer Search
    • A curated list of awesome resources combining Transformers with Neural Architecture Search

Academic Interests

  • Deep Learning
    • Biologically plausible neural networks
    • Neural network architectures
    • Meta-Learning plasticity rules
  • Computational Neuroscience
    • Connectomics
    • Mushroom Body, Drosophila

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Hiking, Videography, Running, Cooking