Abhinav Jangda

India is rewriting the rules of global conservation. While the world struggles with biodiversity loss, India has achieved the impossible: simultaneous population growth across five distinct species of Big Cats. Here is the story of India’s roaring comeback. CHEETAHS: Declared extinct in 1952, the Cheetah returned under Project Cheetah, a historic intercontinental translocation. Starting with 8, brought from Namibia in 2022, successful births on Indian soil have seen a rise to 57 by 2026. This restores a missing link in our grassland ecosystem. TIGERS: The Great Indian Miracle (160.95% Growth) In 2006, India’s Tiger population hit a record low of 1,411. Through the National Tiger Conservation Authority and strict anti-poaching measures, we turned the tide. By 2022, that number soared to 3,682, meaning India now houses 70% of the global wild tiger population. Using cutting-edge tech like M-STrIPES and voluntary village relocations, India proved that economic development and apex predator conservation can coexist. ASIATIC LIONS: The Pride of Gujarat (From 327 to 891) Restricted to the Gir Forests, Asiatic Lions faced a dangerous bottleneck with just 327 individuals in 2000. However, through the "Maldhari" community co-existence model and world-class veterinary care, we witnessed a steady ascent. The population rose to 674 in 2020 and is estimated to reach 891 in 2025. We have effectively pulled the King of the Jungle back from the edge of extinction. LEOPARDS: The Silent Expansion (Dominating at 13,874) Leopard's growth has exploded from 7,910 in 2014 to a massive 13,874 in 2022. By robustly protecting Tiger Reserves, we created an "umbrella effect" that secured the leopard's future across 70% of sampled habitats. India’s strategy focuses on conflict mitigation and rapid response teams, allowing these adaptable predators to thrive without major ecological friction. SNOW LEOPARDS: Guardians of the Third Pole (718 Strong) In 2024, the first-ever scientific assessment (SPAI) confirmed a population of 718 Snow Leopards. This is a monumental achievement in the Himalayas. "Project Snow Leopard" succeeded by prioritising community-based conservation, working with herders to predator-proof corrals and preventing retaliatory killings. This secures the ecology of the "Third Pole," the source of India's major rivers. India is now the only country to host Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Snow Leopards, and Cheetahs in the wild. This data proves that when India decides to protect, nature thrives.

The Hindu community and Indian Americans in California and associated organizations — deserve immense credit for their tireless and strategic advocacy that led to the veto of SB-509. This deceptively crafted bill was itself a foreign influence operation, cynically disguised as an effort to prevent foreign interference. @CAgovernor 's veto of this Bill along the same lines as his veto of a previous foreign influence driven Bill (SB-403) shows that there is sanity still left in our country. But the behavior of the legislature in California deserves serious scrutiny.

Thank you @GavinNewsom for vetoing #SB509. This is a victory for equality before law and a strike against those who misuse their institutional positions and access to bias state institutions into furthering their own personal ideological preferences. We are relieved and delighted to see you keep your word to have a #CaliforniaForAll . We thank community leaders like @ajainb who have been advocating strongly for this bill to be vetoed. Huge kudos. We thank the dozens of organizations that signed a coalition letter to the Governor asking for a veto. We thank allies from other communities and officials like Jeff Rosen, who face vicious and personal attacks for stating professional concerns and for pointing out the very obvious flaws in the bill. It takes courage to stand against powerful voices seeking to subvert institutions. We thank the 21 Assembly Members who abstained from voting on the measure and ask them to next time openly oppose such injustice. Nobody deserves to be labelled “agents” of foreign governments for simply having an opinion that runs contrary to the ideological bent of powerful privileged lawmakers, academics and media. And we thank our California leadership, volunteers and supporters who have been opposing this bill since March. We have made countless calls and emails, had meetings with dozens of legislative offices and gone to Sacramento three times to testify. The introduction and passage of bills that seek to discriminate between different groups of California residents needs to stop. We demand all the lawmakers who voted for this bill to instead focus more on crimes that are actually happening in California. As a reminder 4 Hindu temples were desecrated with vandalism attacks between Dec 2023-March 2025. California’s own Hate Crimes Hotline, has for two straight years reported alarming levels of anti-Hindu hate-second only to antisemitism. No arrests or prosecutions on ANY of these hate crimes. Let's also look at the reckless state of citizen safety and property crime. In the last 6 weeks alone, there has been a high-profile rash of break-ins, burglaries and violence at jewelry stores and temples across the state. This is also a victory for the fire ravaged community of SoCal, which is struggling to recover from the worst fires in living memory. Far from focusing on helping them, state lawmakers were trying to stress an already overburdened Office of Emergency Services with needless #TNR training and chasing ghosts of TNR crimes that California has no data on! Not to forget this criminal waste of taxpayer dollars at a time our state is struggling with deficits. Ignoring these real problems, we have seen lawmakers instead chase the ghost of TNR crimes, attempting for two consecutive years to bring laws to tackle a problem they can show scant evidence for. Do better California!

We are hosting the MIT Programming Languages Review on April 25th in person here at MIT! The PLR is a student-run workshop that aims to highlight the best papers from the past year that we believe will have a significant impact on shaping the future direction of PL research.

Tensor parallelism is central to all LLM workloads, from pretraining to inference, yet is hard to get right. That is why @PyTorch's AsyncTP is amazing. Even more amazing is when reading it, I learn that the idea originates from a paper by my teammate @MalekiSaeed. Congrats!

@abhas_rewcie @vishesh_sood @SAnsumali @abandopa 1x ASML machine costs $380M. $10 B is way too less to get any research done in this area. These machines works on the boundary of laws of physics. Intel took 4-5 years to get 10 nm working with more than $10B. How can India start from scratch for 10nm? We have to start somewhere.

@vishesh_sood @SAnsumali @abandopa If we neither recover the investment nor the tech, then what's the purpose of doing all that?

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LLMs are great at programming tasks... for Python and other very popular PLs. But, they are often unimpressive at artisanal PLs, like OCaml or Racket. We've come up with a way to significantly boost LLM performance of on low-resource languages. If you care about them, read on!

@royaensafi @brave If I do not enter the optional email, I get Invalid Input error.

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Cant get the picture of Marge and Homer and how they confronted the dragons of GPU communication out my head! Such an amazing keynote talk at PPoPP23 yesterday by @MalekiSaeed! Read more about MSCCL at github.com/microsoft/msccl!

@Dreame_tech You received my defective DreameBot L10s Ultra on Dec 28. For over 30 days, the replacement *have not* been shipped. Your customer care just give assurances. Will you ship it or give me a refund?

@FriendsTheExp I am unable to come to Friends Exp NY due to snow storm. Can I please get a refund?

@Delta Flight was cancelled by delta due to weather but ecredits are issued instead of refund? And the ecredits are passenger specific which cannot be used within a year because my parents won't be traveling to the US any time soon again. Can I please get refunds instead?

@TaliaRinger I guess what you are referring to is along the lines of "Worse is Better".

It is weird to me how pathologized impulsivity is when the "do it now because it feels right, figure out a way to make it work later" approach is awesome for innovation. And also a big part of why the SIGPLAN long-term mentorship program exists. #neurodiversity

@notypes However, I believe there is a good opportunity in JIT side where the compilation time matters.

@notypes I think doing this for LLVM is very difficult because it requires writing LLVM passes in CUDA and containers (Maps, Sets), which are not good for GPUs because they involve lot of random memory accesses. (AFAIK: CUDA's Thrust only have Vectors)

"Success in science & scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication". ~ Lal Bahadur Shastri. Happy birthday

@saikatdutta2012 @mathur_umang @Rucha_RPK 25 pages in this format (known as PACMPL format) is around 12 pages of two-column 10 pt format used by PLDI, ASPLOS (many other SIGPLAN related conferences). So, the content has not increased significantly.

@mathur_umang @Rucha_RPK 25 pages might be good for explaining things, but probably too verbose for reviewers. How many reviewers end up actually reading even half of that?

@sangeetha_a_j Moreover, there are many professors at IISc and IITs that offers 1-2 year RAship.

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@akanksha_atrey Systems and PL papers usually have bullet points about contributions at the end of Introduction section. I don't know about other fields in CS.

I have noticed many medical papers have a mini section for key points (typically in bullet form) alongside the abstract. Should we start doing this in computer science?