Rakshith Singh.

An engineer by trade, a student of painting by long habit. I build computer-vision systems — models that learn to read images the way the rest of us learn to read sentences. Object detection, segmentation, geometry, embeddings, the slow discipline of getting a machine to notice the right thing.

Off the clock, I spend an unreasonable amount of time in front of paintings. Caravaggio for the way light arrives like an argument. Vermeer for the patience. Van Gogh because the brushwork is itself a kind of feature map. Monet because the whole impressionist project is, at heart, a conversation about perception — which is what I work on by day, only with tensors instead of pigment.

I don’t paint. I just look — and try to notice what the painters noticed.