About me

I am Amit. Now, my first name is very very common in India. So, like it is normally done if you cannot differentiate an entity on the basis of a single characteristic, you start forming an increasing number of  characteristics and see if that distinguishes it. (This is loosely similar to the concept of compound key). So coming back to my name, my last name is Saha. But no hopes there as well, Amit Saha is common too. My last hope, I add a middle name, Amit Kumar Saha, but even then its the same story. Here is the summary: I am just one of the tens of Amit Kumar Saha’s out there. As if being one of the human race wasn’t enough, it seems that I am just one of them having the same names. May be next time, I should be called as Foo Bar. Appropriately symbolic, but different.

What I do

I currently work at an intersection of Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Optimization with Engineering applications as part of my research at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

My Open Source and community efforts are archived here

I write technical articles for various magazines. You may view them here.

In a past life, I have worked with Sun Microsystems, Inc in the MySQL Engineering team- that was God’s way of making me work with/on SQL and Databases. I also spent a year at the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, IIT Kanpur, India.

Photography

I took to photography by chance and have put up my best clicks at http://500px.com/amitsaha. I enjoy following Protyusha’s photography at http://500px.com/protyusha.