tavish@research:~
about journey research contact
tavish@mankash:~$ whoami 
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Age: 19

Fundamental AI Research · Learning methods, architecture & safety

Interested in brain-inspired learning, modern empirical methods, and mathematical foundations of intelligence.

Currently, spending most of my time reading on Neuroscience, Mathematics and AI Origins.

tavish@mankash:~$ cat stats.txt
years_coding: 12+
projects_shipped: 15+
publications: 1
started_coding: age_9
tavish@mankash:~$ cat current_focus.md

# Current Research Interests

→ Brain-inspired learning — how biological neural circuits inform artificial architectures

→ Empirical deep learning — understanding what makes neural networks work through rigorous experimentation

→ Mathematical foundations — theoretical frameworks for learning, optimization, and generalization

→ Multimodal understanding — bridging vision, language, and structured knowledge

tavish@mankash:~$ ls -la ~/projects/active/
drwxr-xr-x PoorTorch/ — PyTorch from scratch. Understanding autograd, tensors, and backprop at the metal level.
drwxr-xr-x OpenLM/ — Clean library to build language models with ease. Modular, hackable, educational.
tavish@mankash:~$ cat about.md

# About

Started programming at age 9. Published first app at 11. Built robots, shipped products, interned at research labs.

Now pivoting from applied ML and product development toward fundamental research — understanding why things work, not just how to make them work.

Fascinated by the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Looking outside the emperically fueled ratrace of current AI progress into how learning is accomplished by humans.

Beyond research: education access, science outreach.

tavish@mankash:~$ git log --oneline --all

# Journey

2025
a1b2c3d Autonomy & AI Lead @ Plaksha URC Team CURRENT
a1b2d3e OpenLM - Library to train Language Models of various architectures and specifics end-to-end. CURRENT
e4f5g2g Terrain Navigate - Navigation Library for Robotics Aug-Nov
e4f5g6h Healthcare AI Researcher @ SIMBO.AI Jun-Aug
2024
i7j8k9l Healthcare AI Researcher @ Medyug Technology Apr-Sep
p4p5r6q MIRAGE: Multimodal Identification and Recognition of Annotations in Indian General Prescriptions PUBLISHED [arXiv:2410.09729]
m0n1o2p Healthcare AI Research @ IIT Bombay (Koita Centre) May
2021
q3r4s5t App Developer @ SIMBO.AI — English speaking AI
u6v7w8x KrishLal CropDoc — AI crop disease detection (end-to-end) [Play Store]
y9z0a1b Color Blindness Test — Visual accessibility testing app Brahm.ai
b2c3d4e BrahmScream — Announcement app for small groups Brahm.ai
f5g6h7i BMI Calculator — Health metrics utility app Brahm.ai
j8k9l0m URL Shortener — Link shortening service with custom backend Brahm.ai
2020
c2d3e4f Brahm Books — Book sharing platform (Django + Flutter) 🥉 Featured in York University, Start-Up India Together 2022 Program
2019
g5h6i7j AURA Robot — Senior citizen care robot 🤖 🥉 INSEF BRONZE [Demo]
2018
k8l9m0n X-Ray disease detection — Dual CNN architecture on NIH dataset
o1p2q3r Wild animal classification — First neural net, 97% accuracy (Inception v3)
s4t5u6v Anmol Chatbot — First published app @ age 11 MILESTONE
2017
w7x8y9z Medicine word extraction — OpenCV prescription parsing
a0b1c2d Iron Man contour detection — Computer vision experiments
2016
e3f4g5h Classroyal.com — Twitter-like social platform
2013
i6j7k8l QuBot — First robotics programming (C)
m9n0o1p init — Started programming @ age 9 ORIGIN
tavish@mankash:~$ cat contact.md

# Contact

Open to research collaborations, interesting problems, and meaningful conversations about the future of intelligence.

email: tavish.mankash@gmail.com email: tavish@mankash.com linkedin: linkedin.com/in/tavishm github: github.com/tavishm scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=gBNPtj0AAAAJ&hl=en
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