Hello, I am Shubhamkar Ayare. My work may be summarized in terms of two main spheres of life.
Primary sphere of a graduate student. Since September 2024, I'm pursuing my PhD at the Cognitive Science department of Central European University in Vienna, Austria. I am working under Prof. Jonathan Kominsky as my primary supervisor as part of the Causal Cognition Lab. I am also advised by Gergely Csibra and Jozsef Fiser and I can usually be spotted at the Lab Meetings of the Cognitive Development Center or the Vision Lab. My doctoral studies are motivated by Causal Representation Learning with links to Causal Selection Judgments and Theories of Actual Causation.
Before CEU, I completed my Master's in Cognitive Science from IIT Kanpur under Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava as part of the PLATIPUS Lab. Besides him, I have very much enjoyed my interactions with Prof. Devpriya Kumar and will be forever grateful for the often lengthy (but very interesting!) discussions with Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan amongst others. Before IIT Kanpur, I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science at IIT Bombay, where I enjoyed my interactions with too many people to name, with the last semester under Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan.
My primary sphere is largely driven by a quest to put the unknown unknowns relevant for building machines with human-like general intelligence into a more-or-less consistent framework. See what research areas this has touched so far.
I had previously attempted an online forum for cognitive science, but it has since been archived.
Secondary sphere of a Common Lisp Enthusiast. This mainly began around my undergraduate days and has been motivated by a search for a powerful practical yet stable programming platform for long term projects. This sphere contributes to my primary sphere every now and then, but it may be understood independently. The most recent byproduct of this endeavour is a transpiler from Python/Julia-like syntax that is popular these days to Common Lisp called Moonli. See what other projects this sphere had led to.
Besides these two spheres of life, I keep reading and sharing links to interesting, useful, or silly articles I run into or, sometimes, write. Upon a friend's recommendation, I'm maintaining them here. I have additionally started another (micro)blog, which you can navigate via tags.