User:Advanne

About Me

My name is Advaitha Anne and I'm a member of the Duke Class of 2021. I'm interested in studying some combination of biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and economics. I was born in Pittsburgh but grew up in Hockessin, Delaware. I'm enjoy photography, writing, traveling, and watching ESPN.

Pronunciation

Ad-vay-tha (first name) Aa-nai (last name)

Engineering Grand Challenges

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning, Natalie Wolchover , Quanta Magazine, 21 September 2017, accessed 21 September 2017 (Reverse-Engineering the Brain)

MATLAB Demonstration

My favourite demonstration was the one titled "Changing Transparency". Compared the the regular 3-D plots, I thought that this demonstration was cool because it showed you how to reveal the actual working of a 3-D object that may have been previously masked. It allows for the accurate graphing of more complex mathematical models and the explanation of a texture map shows how this can be applied for meteorology. Plus, it was nice to play around with the different levels of opaqueness and the lighting. I thought this was one of the most applicable demonstrations for real life problems.