adhi-thirumala
Adhitya Thirumala
adhit2[at]illinois[dot]edu or
adhi[dot]thirumala[at]gmail[dot]com
adhi-thirumala
Adhitya Thirumala
adhit2[at]illinois[dot]edu or
adhi[dot]thirumala[at]gmail[dot]com
I'm a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign majoring in Computer Science + Linguistics and minoring in math. I'm interested in both AI and NLP, and have done research in the past with it alongside Dr. Elisa Ferracane. I'm also interested in low-level programming and am currently reading/working through the exercises in The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Nisam and Shocken. I'm also an ardent Linux user and I currently daily drive Fedora Arch Linux on my Framework laptop.
Outside of academics, I was a policy debater in high school, and I am continuing this activity in college by coaching a group of highly motivated high schoolers from small programs, similar to the one I was from. Who knows, perhaps I might come back in college to debate one day. I also enjoy playing many old Nintendo games and hope to enter the homebrew development scene for these consoles after I gain more knowledge in the field. I went to Fox Chapel Area High School previously, and graduated in 2024.