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2025 Year in Review

Another year has gone by and it is time for yet another year in review. You can find last year’s blogpost here. Summary Reflections Learning goals for next year

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My friend Andree Kaba

This blogpost is a special one: I interviewed my good friend Andree about his childhood, current life story and what he was looking forward to. Introduction

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Reflections on doing great work

This is my personal reflection on how to do great work by Paul Graham. I read this essay after working on DNLP during a visit in Stephen Boyd’s group at Stanford. I could relate to a lot of things that Paul highlights in his essay and wanted to share these reflections. What to work on The essay begins with the first step: deciding what to work...

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Classes from Master's

This blogpost is a review of the 4 classes I took to satisfy the class requirements of my Master’s degree. Introduction Although I am definitely enjoying the freedom of having less stressful deadlines, I believe I learned a lot from the classes I took during my Master’s (Multivariable systems in Fall 2024, the other three in Winter 2025). I am...

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2024 Year in Review

Another year has gone by and it is time for yet another year in review. You can find last year’s blogpost here. Summary Looking back, this year was pretty eventful. I first completed my undergraduate degree with four very difficult classes (especially the compiler one). I talk a bit about my undergrad experience and give some very general ad...

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My experience as a CVXPY core developer

A few weeks ago, the CVXPY team has released version 1.6 with a lot of new features and bug fixes. This blogpost details my contributions in the release and my experience through the past year of open source. How it started After my summer project for Google Summer of Code (GSoC), I expressed my interest to continue making contributions to the...

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Advice for undergrads

Note: the following tips might not be generalizable to everyone, as I only speak of my experience studying Computer Science and Mathematics at Concordia University, Montreal. 1. Extended Credit Program Due to the difference in high school curriculums between Quebec and Ontario, out-of-province students need to take an extra year of university ...

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2023 Year in Review

This is a yearly ritual I like to do to get a sense of what I have accomplished throughout the year. You can find last year’s blogpost here. Summary The first few months of the year I went on an exchange at the University of Manchester. I learned to live and travel independently and developed some impactful friendships. It definitely still s...

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