Saran Ahluwalia

Saran Ahluwalia

My primary interests are in applying statistical learning, graphical models and unsupervised machine learning in service of - amongst others - healthcare services, quantitative finance and real estate economics. I hope to continue to marry my prior experience with my passion for the democratization of knowledge through open source development

Reflections

2020

Derivation of Support Vector Machines

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Recently, I am experimenting with different mechanisms for deriving decision functions for multiclass classification problems. I have spent some time reading and experiementing with examples from the following references:

2019

Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

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I recently completed Stanford’s course on natural language processing. This course opened my eyes to different representaions of speech and linguistics.

Sutton and Barto Part 3

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I am currently reading Sutton and Barto (reference below). Along the way I decided to recreate certain experiments cited in each book chapter. This particular example includes the Blackjack problem definition.

Sutton and Barto Part 2

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I am currently reading Sutton and Barto (reference below). Along the way I decided to recreate certain experiments cited in each book chapter. This particular example includes the example from Figure 6.2.

Sutton and Barto Part 1

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I am currently reading Sutton and Barto (reference below). Along the way I decided to recreate certain experiments cited in each book chapter. This particular example includes the Blackjack problem definition in Example 5.1. Along with it is a visual with varying numbers of steps taken.

2017

Repucall - A new means to characterize phone number reputation

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Just wrapped up my second semester of post-graduate studies in mathematics and statistics. I decided to take a graduate network security course. My capstone research project was within the field of telephony. You can find the paper included in the publications section. In retrospect, I could have submitted this to a security conference, but, at the time, I also got swept up in a couple of other projects with Dr. Laber. In the end, I missed the opportunity to submit this paper to NDSS, CCS and other highly prestigious security conferences. This was certainly a learning experience in finding out what works for you and making sure you can do one thing well and execute it to its fullest extent. However, I learned much about academic writing, writing for a security-research audience and how to structure your argumentation to make sure your paper is contributing to a body of work.

2016