adhi-thirumala
Adhitya Thirumala
me[at]adhithirumala[dot]com or adhit2[at]illinois[dot]edu or
adhi[dot]thirumala[at]gmail[dot]com (in order of preference)
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0009-0003-6634-7066
adhi-thirumala
Adhitya Thirumala
me[at]adhithirumala[dot]com or adhit2[at]illinois[dot]edu or
adhi[dot]thirumala[at]gmail[dot]com (in order of preference)
Google
Scholar
0009-0003-6634-7066
i'm at the cornfields university of illinois urbana-champaign majoring in computer science + linguistics and
minoring in math. i'm interested in ai, nlp, programming language theory, and systems software. specifically, i have
done research in the past on
nlp alongside dr. elisa ferracane. i'm also an ardent linux user and i
currently daily
drive fedora arch linux on my framework laptop (although the more i look at it, the more i get enthralled
with the idea of nixos). currently, i'm the treasurer for acm @ uiuc - the largest
collective of CS students at Illinois - where i manage funds and enable many students across the club to pursue
their passions and build projects. my introduction to this organization was the amazing gnu linux user group where i was given an addiction to ricing, the tiling windows manager, and many other ways to waste time "productively".
outside of academics, i was a policy debate competitor 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. i also enjoy playing many old Nintendo games and enjoy being part of the homebrew scene for many of these older consoles. a not so long time ago, i went to fox chapel area high school.
i'm working on a blog! it's not done yet, but i hope to detail my various journeys from the internals of this website (which is actually slightly more than raw text) to my dotfiles on my arch install and more!
i swear i know CSS, JS, and other modern frontend frameworks. however, imho, we dont need to be doing all that most of the time. (yeah, i guess technically the trick to bypass pdf caching in the browser to make my resume update immediately uses js but whatever close enough)
u can find my pgp public key here! my fingerprint is
C320 D098 524A BD16 D76F A948 9EA6 0094 AB56 CE3A
send me secret messages only i can read. one day i will use this to sign things other than my github commits.