About
My name is Iliya and I like to build interactive, visual programs. I’m a PhD student at Sofia University researching differentiable self-organization, neural cellular automata and artificial life, and a Senior Research Engineer at Redis. Earlier I finished a Master’s in AI at Sofia University and taught a course on Functional Programming.
You can find my resume here.
My interests include
- Differentiable self-organization
- Artificial life
- Generative modeling
- Recurrent (attention based) models (basically NTMs)
- AI Art
- Functional programming
This is where you can find me
- E-mail iliya.zhechev[at]gmail.com
- Twitter /ilzhechev
- GitHub /ichko
- CodePen /ichko
- LinkedIn /in/iliya-zhechev
Fig. 1 - CPPN self portrait.
Tools
- I do the diagrams for the blog with Diagrams.net
- Desmos.com is useful tool for plotting functions
- Big fan of PyTorch
- But for in-browser deep learning I use TensorFlowJS
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