Bio

Apart from reading, writing and studying philosophy, I’m also a poet. I began writing poetry early on in my life to articulate experiences from my inner life and to portray metaphors around me. What started as a quest to understand the human condition has now turned into understanding minds and the very essence of experiences. My interests in philosophy began there and have now evolved into what they are today.

And when I’m not doing philosophy or writing poetry, you’ll find me by a piano. Again, another interest that bloomed from trying to understand the human condition and phenomenology. In art, my greatest inspiration has been experiences of the sublime and paradoxes of tragedy. I often write free-verse or iambic pentameter poetry with the occasional sonnet, and play classical and contemporary classical music on the piano.

Before I started my academic career in philosophy, I went to university in Mumbai, where I grew up, to study Business Administration. And soon after that I moved to Glasgow to study my Master of Science in Philosophy where I developed my framework for consciousness and creative intelligence. Since then, I have been a visiting scholar at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge where I have been researching and writing on my current work in paradoxes of suffering as a step towards phenomenology in AI and other work on quantifying creative intelligence in generative models. At CFI, I have been a part of the Consciousness and Intelligence and Creative Intelligence research projects. In addition to this, I have also been convening the Kinds of Intelligence reading group.

My other interests include meditation, photography, painting and travelling. I love nature, especially experiences of the sublime. I also read quite a bit of science fiction, neuroscience, history, psychology and zen philosophy. I am currently based in Cambridge but travel around frequently.

And lastly, I’m also working on an anthology of poems with philosophical motifs of experiences, metaphors of darkness and light, and analogies of nature. For poetry related requests/publications, please contact me here.