About Me

Photo at Bangalore Chess Club, June 2024.

I’m Vibhaas, currently in my 2nd year of Computer Science Engineering at IIIT Kottayam. I am a competitive programmer and programming hobbyist. I have varied interests ranging from Mathematics to Philosophy to Social Psychology to interesting fanfiction (:p).

Academically, I am a Coordinator for the Coders Club at IIITK. I learnt to program in 2nd grade, and dabbled in programming as a hobby whenever I had free time. In 11th grade I won a Bronze Medal in INOI, a competition to select the students who would represent India at the Informatics Olympiad. I hold a title of Expert on Codeforces.

At college, along with Coders Club Coordinator, I am currently serving as the Class Representative for my batch, as well as a member of the Mess Committee, Literary Society and the Enigma AI Club. You can view my full resume on Linkedin.

On the philosophical side, I am strongly in favour of human augmentation and life extension, and consider myself a Transhumanist. I am interested in Effective Altruism and Longtermism. I believe that Existential risk from artificial general intelligence is currently one of the most pressing problems for humanity.

On hobbies, I enjoy playing chess, solving puzzles and math problems, and debating various topics. I enjoy watching anime and reading books, usually either non-fiction or sci-fi/fantasy. You can get in touch with me by shooting me an email at [email protected].

About this website

This is the personal blog of Vibhaas Srivastava (@accord). Topics: Programming, B.Tech., Essays, AI/ML, Philosophy, Anime.

This website was created using the Chirpy theme for Jekyll, with some amount of custom modifications. It runs on Github Pages. The comments are powered by Giscus and analytics by GoatCounter. In the future, I plan to rewrite this website from scratch.

You can view the github repo for the website at github.com/vibhaas/vibhaas.github.io.