Das U-Blog by Prashanth

My previous laptop was an ASUS UX331UN, and I wrote a post when I got it 6 years ago reviewing it [ LINK ]. It served me well, so I figured ...

Recent conversations with friends & colleagues about probability theory reminded me of conversations with a friend of mine in graduate s...

This post is a follow-up to a post [ LINK ] about an essay by the environmental history professor William Cronon, which in turn was about th...

Over the 3 years that I physically lived in California (as I worked remotely for UC Davis remotely from Maryland for 1 year before that), I ...

Last month, I attended the TRB 2024 Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity (TRB CATE 2024). The conference, which was held in Baltimo...

I am pleased to share that I have started a job at the transportation consulting company Cambridge Systematics as of 2 weeks ago, being base...

This week is my last week as a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis). I am glad that I was...

Recently, I wondered whether it is possible for a linear operator in a continuous (infinite-dimensional) vector space to have a finite deter...

I recently read two things that were of interest to me having previously worked in physics. One was an article in The New Yorker magazine [...

This winter has featured many winter storms over the contiguous US that have swept from the west coast to the east coast. In previous posts,...