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.

August 20, 2026 · 3 min · Barshan Mondal

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.

July 31, 2026 · 2 min · Barshan Mondal

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?

July 25, 2026 · 6 min · Barshan Mondal

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.

July 10, 2026 · 6 min · Barshan Mondal

Google Summer of Code Week 4: Training the ESTGEL Pipeline

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

June 20, 2026 · 2 min · Barshan Mondal

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.

June 13, 2026 · 4 min · Barshan Mondal

Tiny Worms and Large Graphs

So, I Started Working on OpenWorm

May 24, 2026 · 3 min · Barshan Mondal