Hello. My name is Shashvat.
I am from Singapore and India.
I am doing a PhD in Quantum Computer Science at University College London. I am currently a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore.
I previously studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
I attended NUS High School of Maths and Science, and Global Indian International School.
I like to understand things through their essence and their history.
I like to find underrated, underexplored, underappreciated ideas and make them known. There’s plenty of low hanging fruit in this.
I also like to find canonical, celebrated and cliched ideas and reinterpret them for myself. It’s easy to have an illusion of understanding for such things.
I think society has gotten confused about technological progress. We uncritically welcome and revere more high technology, whereas I think we should instead celebrate equitable and broad adoption of good techniques. (Find out more)
I have this website because writing helps me think, and because I want to share too many ideas with too many people that I can't rely on explaining things to people one at a time.
(I am currently in the process of collecting my online presence onto this website. -Shashvat 20/02/26)