Vasu Menon

# Vasu Menon > Personal site of Vasu Menon Vasu Menon is a CS and Mathematics graduate interested in AI safety, mathematical theory, and software — ideally all three at once. This site is part portfolio, part sketchbook, and part webring. There are a few easter eggs if you're curious enough to look. ## Navigation - [Home](https://vasumenon.com/): Landing page with featured projects and recent posts - [About](https://vasumenon.com/about): Background, interests, and GitHub activity - [Projects](https://vasumenon.com/projects): Research papers and software projects - [Blog](https://vasumenon.com/blog): Technical writing, essays, and explorations - [Contact](https://vasumenon.com/contact): Get in touch ## Projects - [On the Metastability of Bipodal States in Transformer Attention Dynamics](https://vasumenon.com/projects/metastability-transformer-attention/): Research on bipodal metastability in transformer attention mechanisms - [Some Structures in Transformer Architectures](https://vasumenon.com/projects/some-structures-in-transformer-architectures/): Survey of structural properties in modern transformer architectures - [AI-Powered Project Tracking for Hitachi Energy](https://vasumenon.com/projects/hitachi-energy-capstone/): Capstone project building AI tools for industrial project management - [Differential Privacy in Federated Learning](https://vasumenon.com/projects/differential-privacy/): Privacy-preserving techniques in distributed machine learning - [The Art of Attention](https://vasumenon.com/projects/art-of-attention/): Visualizing transformer attention mechanisms as art - [Stargazr](https://vasumenon.com/projects/stargazr/): Astronomy project - [Visualize your Spotify Taste](https://vasumenon.com/projects/spotify-visualizer/): Data visualization of Spotify listening patterns - [Website Word Cloud](https://vasumenon.com/projects/website-wordcloud/): Word cloud generated from site content ## Blog Posts - [A 1.58-Dimensional Object](https://vasumenon.com/2026/04/17/fractal-dimensions/): Exploring fractal dimensions from a favorite Numberphile video - [The Human Test](https://vasumenon.com/2026/04/26/the-human-test/): How and why a small proof-of-humanity was built into the site - [How I Built This Site](https://vasumenon.com/2026/04/23/how-i-built-this-site/): A walkthrough of the engineering behind vasumenon.com - [Hypergraph Theory](https://vasumenon.com/2025/12/23/hypergraphs/): An introduction to hypergraph theory and the Erdős–Ko–Rado Theorem - [The Three Gods Riddle](https://vasumenon.com/2025/12/30/three-gods-riddle/): Explaining the solution to the Three Gods Riddle - [Art Gallery](https://vasumenon.com/2025/12/22/art-gallery/): A curated collection of artworks from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - [Solving PDEs with Neural Networks](https://vasumenon.com/2025/05/12/pinn-attempt1/): Physics-Informed Neural Networks for solving the 1D heat equation - [Face Generator with GANs](https://vasumenon.com/2025/05/09/gan-attempt1/): Deep Convolutional GANs trained on 200,000 samples to generate celebrity faces - [Outward Reality](https://vasumenon.com/2025/04/27/reality/): On how we don't know what's real - [Arguments](https://vasumenon.com/2025/01/11/arguments/): Thoughts on the nature of arguments ## Optional - [Listening / Making](https://vasumenon.com/making): Original music production and releases - [Urban Exploration](https://vasumenon.com/urbex): Urban exploration photos and locations - [Notes](https://vasumenon.com/notes): Mathematical notes, including Naive Set Theory - [Wakatime](https://vasumenon.com/wakatime): Coding activity stats and breakdown