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'm doing research at a visual computing lab in Helsinki, Finland, advised by [Jaakko Lehtinen](https://users.aalto.fi/~lehtinj7/). My specific research interests: _Interpretable and Controllable Generative Modeling, Foundation Models, and Efficient Deep Neural Networks_. - In the past, 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. - My personal philosophy has changed drastically over the past decade. My current world view is a synthesis of ideas from [Visakan Veerasamy](https://x.com/visakanv), [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.