Pranav Dinesh
He/Him
I am gay and I am a computer scientist.//
I have always been fascinated with the way we see the world around us using abstractions and models, and using them as means to investigate and analyse things. I would much rather say I live in an abstract world in my thoughts, leading to an inclination towards mathematics initially. But getting myself enrolled in computer science has been a game changer ever since, mostly because of the formalism and tools the field has had to model the mathematical world. It gives a language to bizarre ideas and problems.
But as much as abstractions help us ignore the complexities and implementation and focus on the key areas, our world is never binary (pun-intended). People come from all sorts of diverse backgrounds, each with their own story to tell. And abstracting this very diversity is detrimental to each one of us who don’t conform to the majority.
One such role model I look up to is Alan Turing, especially for his amazing work and contributions to Theoretical Computer Science, which is what I work on at the EY R&D AI lab. But most importantly, him being among us gives some light to the fact that we exist and that we can still be ourselves and enjoy the work we do.