Nithya Rajagopal 💖💫🐶🐾

society needs to grapple with the reality of a mythos-level model being open source in <12 months. i’m not sure we are prepared.

At 36, the world begins to subtly lower your standards. You’re told to be realistic, that good men are taken and to simply settle. Meanwhile, I married a man who didn’t like people, hated long-distance and spent nine months insisting we were just friends, as if it was his constitutional right. Here’s the truth no one wants to admit: I didn’t win him over. I simply didn’t chase him. There was no convincing, no emotional CV, no “look how amazing I am, please pick me.” He said “we are just friends.” I said “perfect.” And then I carried on with my life. That’s when things get interesting. Because men who are “unsure” become very sure when you’re no longer available for their confusion. He didn’t change because I asked; he changed because I stopped adjusting. So no, I didn’t “find a good man at 36.” I stopped entertaining the wrong ones. That’s the cheat code nobody likes to admit. At 36, the world begins to subtly lower your expectations. You’re told to be realistic, that good men are taken and to simply settle. Slowly, the man who had resisted long-distance and commitment showed up. The man who had claimed “just friends” began behaving anything but. There was no drama or begging. Instead, there was quiet consistency and a zero-tolerance policy for nonsense. Finally, almost annoyingly calmly, he chose me. So no, I didn’t “find a good man at 36”. I simply stopped entertaining unsuitable ones. That’s the secret no one likes to admit.

Meet Nitin Gupta ! (IIT-JEE Rank 1, Neuroscientist & Researcher from India) Exploring how the brain turns signals into behavior from smell to decision-making. > Topped IIT-JEE in 2000 and joined IIT Kanpur > Graduated with a BTech degree in Computer Science, with a growing interest in biology > Pursued a PhD in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology at University of California San Diego > Where he Worked in cognitive neuroscience > Then he moved to National Institutes of Health for postdoctoral research in electrophysiology > After Postdoc he returned to India and Joined IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 2014 Today, he is working at the intersection of neuroscience, behavior, and computation > Studies how neural circuits encode behaviors like attraction and repulsion > Uses insect olfactory systems to understand how brains process smells > Examines how mosquitoes respond to human odors vs repellents > Research which will help to uncover fundamental working principles of brain Beyond core research, he is also building solutions for real-world impact > Developed TreadWill, a digital cognitive behavioral therapy tool for depression > Working on scalable mental health interventions using technology His work bridges computer science, biology, and neuroscience, decoding how simple neural signals give rise to complex behavior.