Shubhom Bhattacharya

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Hello!

Welcome to my site! I’m an engineer at Bionic Sight in New York City. My focus is currently on a novel optogenetic prosthetic treatment, called BS01, where I use research of the retina’s neural code to restore vision in a pioneering clinical trial. I also explore computer vision applications of the neural code in robotics. In addition to my work at Bionic Sight, I like to think about new ways to responsibly leverage the immense capabilities artificial intelligence provides, especially with regards to social and environmental issues we face today. As part of that, I work with Greenstand on a variety of machine learning problems in my free time.

Outside of work, I’m a big fan of soccer and basketball and enjoy learning new things about the world, through the arts, travel, or through my family and friends. I certainly enjoy writing- this website contains essays I write periodically about a variety of topics, but I also semi-regularly post creative writing on my newsletter.

Interests

Computational Neuroscience
Computer Vision

Education

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019

Cornell University
M.Eng in Computer Science, 2020

Cornell University

Projects

Unraveling the Neural Code

A review of brain recording technologies

Optogenetic Prosthetic

An introduction into Bionic Sight’s technology

Brain MRI Segmentation

Automated MRI segmentation of four ROIs

Magic Mirror

Gesture-controlled smart mirror

LABron

Maze-mapping robot using Arduino

Ms. Pac-Man

Reinforcement learning for a classic Atari game

Checkers Bot

A checkers bot trained using AlphaGo methods

Stock Talk

StockTalk- a stock price prediction tool

Recent Blog Posts

Bagel Shop Stories

Following the explosion of ChatGPT-based content, I thought it’d be fun to write prompts for ChatGPT and try using a large-language model (LLM) to rival or mimic things I write about in my free time. If you haven’t already tried it, check out their website. I’ve also interspersed the plays with AI-generated art related to these prompts generated by Stable Diffusion and DALL-E models, simply as an exploration of the applications- certainly it seems the day is not too far that an AI can generate an entire picture book.

Shubhom

Last updated on Oct 4, 2021 9 min read

Messi Thoughts on Time

Like a lot of soccer fans my age, I looked up to Lionel Messi as a kid. I honestly became a Messi fan before I became a soccer fan: the Barcelona teams played an iconic brand of the beautiful game and Messi was its posterchild. Fanboying Messi, 90% of which was debating why he’s better than Cristiano Ronaldo, was a pastime for me in my early teens, to the extent I voluntarily made a PowerPoint on the topic.