Hey There, I am Barshan👋

Ex-bi0s CTF Player | 1x Hackathon Winner | Learning By Doing

Google Summer of Code 2026 · OpenWorm poke the wormlive cell-fate model →

Things I've built

hover them, they all do something

Which layer does the thinking?Ablating a transformer, layer by layer

Fake news, by communityGraph nets over how a story spreads

Nearest neighboursWhat retrieval actually retrieves

Segment the noiseU-Net, encoder down, decoder up

Walk the latent spaceEvery point is a different sample

Songs as spectraMFCC features, then find the match

Who attends to whomA causal attention matrix, row by row

A net from scratchWatch a forward pass go through

Fit the lineMove it and watch the loss react

Find the faceDrag the detector until it locks on

Drop the bad packetsMove the firewall across the zones

Carve the memory dumpSweep for artifacts in the bytes

Just a little overview on me

ESTGEL Is Live: Go Click a Cell

The cell-fate model is off my GPU and on the internet. An interactive 3D embryo you can scrub through, and a Space where you can upload your own.

Google Summer of Code Week 8: Turning One Spreadsheet Into 2,769 Answers

Turning a DevoWorm reference sheet into 2,506 honest cell fate training labels, and the four ways it fought back.

Google Summer of Code Week 7: The 96% That Wasn't

I caught my own model cheating on a test, realized the test itself was broken, and rebuilt the whole thing around a much cooler question: what does each cell grow up to become?

Google Summer of Code Midterm: Everything I've Built So Far

A walk through the work done till the midterm evaluation from raw C. elegans microscopy to a trained ESTGEL model, attention maps, and an interactive embryo dashboard.

Google Summer of Code Week 4: Training the ESTGEL Pipeline

Connected the data, model, loss, and checkpointing into a working training flow.

Google Summer of Code Week 3: ESTGEL Explained with a Social Network Analogy

A plain-English breakdown of ESTGEL’s three modules using a student friendship network analogy.

Google Summer of Code - Coding Period Week 2

Created a Dataset Loader for my Dataset

Tiny Worms and Large Graphs

So, I Started Working on OpenWorm

EPIC Dataset: From Microscopy to Graph Neural Networks

Complete guide to preprocessing and analyzing C. elegans embryonic development using spatio-temporal graph data