What did I do last week ?

I went to my undergraduate university’s reunion and it was great meeting a lot of my batch mates. This was a 5 year reunion and what hit hard to most of us friends was that we are all were now closer to 30 years of age and not 20, HAHA we are getting old I guess (or wiser). This also meant that some of us were discussing what new restaurant are we trying out this weekend and others were discussing which school their kids are going to join.

Another thing which happened was, I met my chemistry Professor Vrunda Khadilkar. She was one of the nicest and kindest professors I have ever had in my life. It was really great to see her as she retired in 2017 and I was in the last batch she ever taught. It was surprising to see that there were people from 35 year old batches and Prof Khadilkar still remembered them and some peculiar mischief they might have pulled off in class.

Some teachers leave a really good impression and inspire us, Prof Khadilkar is one of them. 

A bit about research

We recently published a research work where we use Large Language Models (LLMs) to conduct research!! Yes, you read it right. We use LLMs to generate research plans and critique each other’s work and improve their original responses based on these critiques. Followed by this we ask human experts to review the primary and revised responses (after critiquing). Guess what, the experts prefer the revised responses.

This was an interesting project which eventually got published at American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2025). I and my advisor thought maybe this idea is not that great or worth exploring, but as my advisor says “Nature has its own way of surprising us”. 

A few weeks later Andrej Karpathy comes up with LLM Council which is an open source experimental project that uses a system of multiple large language models (LLMs) to arrive at more reliable and accurate answers. Now I and my advisor are keen to exploring this idea further!!! 

Interesting things this week

I went to Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai’s Tour this Sunday by Khaki Tours. The tour was for 1 hr 45 mins where our tour guide Mr Vasant told us about all the architectural significance & history and current civic body operations. He also got us access into the hallway where all the civic body laws take shape and the councillors sit and debate. 

Following are a few pictures of the tour and streets of Mumbai (gotta sneak in that Mumbaikar feeling in me)