Hi, I'm [Hoanh](https://hoanhle.github.io/). Welcome! This is my digital garden where I explore and share my notes on the many intricacies of our world. Some things about me: - I like learning and creating good new things, especially with people who see beauty in their subject. I work on computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning, with particular interest on generative modelling, realistic image synthesis, foundation models, and efficient deep neural networks. - I spent my master’s years doing research in a visual computing lab in Helsinki, Finland (click [here](https://hoanh.space/aalto) to see it in 3d), advised by [Jaakko Lehtinen](https://users.aalto.fi/~lehtinj7/). My thesis focuses on Adapting Radiance Fields for High-Fidelity Digital Replication of Paintings. - Before that, I spent half a decade contributing significantly to lightning-fast semantic segmentation, OCR, and classification systems at a computer vision unicorn in Zurich, Switzerland — resulting in products now used in millions of enterprise devices worldwide. - I love tinkering with things and building from scratch. Things i've built: physically-based renderer, various VQ-VAE variants, PaliGemma, Stable Diffusion-v1.5, Diffusion-based World Model, etc. - In my previous life, I dedicated part of my time to competitive mathematics, and the rest to science club activities. - My personal philosophy has changed drastically over the past decade. My current world view is a synthesis of ideas from [Andrej Karpathy](https://karpathy.ai/), [John Carmack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack), and [Steve Jobs](https://stevejobsarchive.com/book). Check out my [reading](Books/Bookshelf), [writing](https://hoanh.substack.com/), and [deep dives](https://hoanhle.github.io/blog/). You can also find me on [twitter](https://x.com/hoanhle_), [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/letranhoanh/), and [github](https://github.com/hoanhle). --- The life I want to live is the one where I'm always evolving towards my own subjective ideal, sculpting myself into art designed by my own taste, to be appreciated by myself, those around me, and the world at large.