Smit Chaudhary

 

Hello! I am Smit Chaudhary. A physicist, ML Developer, and a full-time nerd. I enjoy training large neural networks to get them to solve problems they have not seen before.

What I’ve Been Up To

  • PASQAL - Machine Learning 🤝 Quantum Computing
    Built Scientific ML systems. Trained Neural Networks. Minimized losses. Shipped APIs that let others use our Quantum Neural Networks to minimize their losses.
  • Menten AI - Research Intern
    Built Generative Adversarial Networks in JAX. Made them quantum. Taught them discrete data. Published the results.
  • TU Delft - Master’s in Applied Physics
    Built optimization algorithms in Quantum Machine Learning group. Implemented GANs for quantum states. Researched barren plateaus. Learned Physics. Applied Physics.
  • IIT Kanpur - Bachelor’s in Physics
    Learned a lot. Forgot a lot. Learned to learn again. Learned to forget only some. Still reaping the benefits of those fundamentals.

More About Me

  • Grew up in India, now live in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Stop-Motion Animation
    I enjoy the process of meticulously crafting each frame where hours worth of effort bears a small (often satisfying) few-seconds long clip.
  • Open Source
    Always looking for open source alternatives to everything. Yes, everything. And you should also sponsor your favorite open source projects. Goes a long way.
  • Build From Scratch
    Building something from ground up is my usual way of, uhm, scratching the itch. Not just now on weekend(s) projects but also during academic projects.
  • I Self-Host by the way
    Ok. I am not annoying about it (yet) but I am starting to move more and more of my stuff off someone else’s cloud and my own VPS. Hetzner and Coolify for the win.
  • Languages and Etymology
    I am fortunate to be part of a diverse set of friends, which means many discussions about the similarities and differences in our languages. Have many unfounded theories.

Publications