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](https://hoanhle.github.io/bookshelf/), [writing](https://hoanh.substack.com/), and [deep dives](https://hoanhle.github.io/blog/).