About
Hi! I am Usman and I am a Mathematics major at the City University of Hong Kong (graduating soon).
In the past I have tinkered with different spaces and still play around a lot but currently sometimes I wear the hat of a machine learning engineer/researcher with recent work in researching and deploying machine learning models for retail analytics in different malls and retail shops in Hong Kong. On Engineering/building side I have built ugly beautiful frontends (I was subsumed by the React cult), created mess on the backend (for a minute I loved graphql too), deployed insecure apps (banging my head against apache then later realizing that nginx is a better choice) and then settling for building, deploying, and researching machine learning models à la read countless papers (using my math degree eh?), simplify them, contemplate sucide because the learning rate doesn’t seem to work and even with all the distributed tricks up my sleeves the NVIDIA GPUs would take days, and then finally arrive on models with better accuracy rates.
However, my heart mostly belongs to mathematics. I spend a bunch of my time thinking about problems in quantum information. My research interests in general span quantum complexity theory and quantum shannon theory with a growing interest in operator algebras, but currently I am working as a research intern with Professor Marco Tomamcihel at NUS where my focus is on using tools from real semi-algebraic geometry for quantum resource theories. For starters you can look into following papers/surveys:
Whatever time I have left goes to reading, filling up my journal with mundane thoughts, learning how to make a perfect ribeye, and taking long walks accross Hong Kong.
I have been reading Hannah Arendt, Kierkegaard, and Christopher Alexander lately.