About me · outside the lab

Hi, I’m Asmit.

I grew up in India and now live in Los Angeles, where I’m doing a PhD at USC. This page is the part of me that isn’t on my CV.

Outside the lab ↓ The professional side →
Asmit at a viewpoint above Los Angeles, with the downtown skyline behind him
Los Angeles, from above
01 / Outside the lab

Things I care about that have nothing to do with MRI.

Writing

Poems

I write poems about leaving certainty behind, learning to be alone, and deciding the sky is not the limit.

Read “Do You Know” →
Travel

Solo travel

Alone is not lonely. Some of the people I remember most are strangers I met for a few hours on the road.

Photography

Behind the camera

I helped run Pixxel, the photography club at IIT Patna, organizing workshops and competitions.

Mathematics

OptiMatX

I founded and led a mathematics club at IIT Patna that grew past 50 members, mentoring newer students along the way.

02 / Places & people

Some places and people along the way.

Asmit in the hills, with the Hollywood sign on the ridge behind him
Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles
Asmit and a long table of colleagues sharing skewers, tea, and dishes at a Uyghur restaurant
Dinner with colleagues · Dolan’s Uyghur Cuisine
03 / Something I wrote

Next thing I know
I am in love with solo travel
I am missing the strangers
Met for a few hours
Felt like old friends.

All writing →
04 / Currently

Right now.

Based in
Los Angeles
Working on
Interpretable MRI: k-space reconstruction, adaptive sampling, FPGA-accelerated reconstruction, and quantum computing at LOFT, USC
05 / Where I come from

The short version.

  1. Born in India
  2. School at KVS, top of my school from classes 9 through 12
  3. Computer science at IIT Patna
  4. Los Angeles, for a PhD and an MS at USC
The full timeline →

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