Ved Panse • 2 June, 2023
If you're reading this, you're either extremely bored or impressively curious — either way, welcome. I’m Ved Panse, a sophomore at UC San Diego, double majoring in Mathematics–Computer Science and Data Science. Most days, I oscillate between abstract problem solving and building real systems — a duality that keeps things interesting and occasionally causes harmless existential spirals at 2 AM.
I was born in Thousand Oaks, California, and raised in Aurangabad, India — which means my syntax is mostly clean, but my food is unapologetically spicy. Growing up across cultures gave me a unique lens on the world: structured when needed, creative when possible, and always asking “what if we built this better?”
My interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, system design, and human experience. I’ve worked on projects ranging from memory-driven conversational bots to real-time avionics simulations to web platforms that make complex data approachable. Whether I’m designing an interface or fine-tuning a model, I’m drawn to systems that are both technically sound and intuitively usable.
This blog isn’t a polished portfolio — it’s more of a working journal. A place to document what I’ve learned (and unlearned), where I’ve succeeded, where I’ve hit walls, and occasionally, where I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I might share thoughts on building multi-modal assistants, lessons from debugging strange edge cases, or why certain problems just feel more elegant when solved recursively.
If you’re into clean design, clever engineering, or just want a peek into how a young developer thinks in a world of LLMs and infinite Git branches — you’re in the right place. And if something here sparks a thought or a question, feel free to drop me a message. I promise not to respond with an auto-generated reply (unless I'm prototyping that too).