I'm a data scientist working in Boston. I've been there for two years, joining after completing a BA in astrophysics from Columbia and an MSc in business analytics from Imperial College London.

I grew up mostly in Northern Virginia. My parents and younger sister still live there. My extended family is mostly from Bihar, India; everyone speaks Urdu/Hindi and almost everyone speaks English as well (there are a few exceptions). We're not particularly socially liberal or conservative.

We're mostly a "professional" family -- doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. About half of my relatives live in the US now and about half elsewhere (mostly still in India). Long-term, I'd like to be near my relatives, preferably my parents in Virginia, or my aunts, uncles, and cousins in New York and New Jersey. 

I work in consulting, so I can be fairly busy during the week. I currently travel to client sites a fair bit (usually 3 nights/4 days a week, every week or every other week for a few months). On the weekends, I like to visit my family, cook, read books, watch ice hockey, play basketball, catch up on comedy shows, and read papers in machine learning and, occasionally, astronomy.

In terms of religious ritual, I try to do the bare minimum and then some -- praying tahajjud, fasting twice a week, attending Al Maghrib lectures, etc. I like listening to halaqas on the lives on the prophets. I keep zabiha. I'd like to find more opportunities to volunteer that fit my schedule.

I am academically inclined and am interested in a broad range of topics. I generally try to solve problems logically. Personality-wise, I'm pretty quiet, laid-back, and calm. (On the Myers-Briggs, I always grade as INTP.)