Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

Sep 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Working towards solving the problem of baby anthropometry in rural India to identify underweight babies and hence provide the necessary care.

May 2018 – Oct 2018 · 5 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Lucknow Area

• Worked out fast, closed-form inference methods for a variety of flat and hierarchical MoE models.
• Beat strong MOE baselines on standard classification datasets and achieved 5-10x improvement in
• training speed over traditional inference methods like BFGS and Gradient Descent.
• Overcame over-fitting by learning # of clusters/experts from data via a logistic stick-breaking prior network.

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Attained ∼ 0.057% data summarization for extreme credit-card transaction datasets in a data-driven manner.
• > Developed a time-evolving compact representation of data by using a Chinese restaurant process esque model
• that begins with an initial clustering of a random sub-sample and grows as new data comes each day.
• > Scaled the model to Industry Standards with spark for parallelization and Amazon Web Services.
• > US Patent App. No. 15/912326

Mar 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr · IIT Kanpur

• > Pioneered public opinion based articles engaging the campus community and making their voices heard.
• > Investigated pressing issues like problems faced by Ph.D. students and ragging on campus.
• > Driven page likes to 13.8K from 3.5K over a span of 3 years. Recorded 2.5 times higher post engagement in comparison to media bodies of IIT Bombay and Madras.
• > Led article on the effect of coaching on students that got published on Business Insider and Times of India.

Mar 2016 – Sep 2016 · 6 mos · IIT Kanpur

• > Built a voice recognition Robot that actuates its motors through voice and presented it at SnT day 2016.
• > Managed workshop for 100+ students to create RC cars from scratch to promote robotics in the campus

Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Lucknow Area

• > Built institute’s 1st AUV, a vehicle capable of following lines, shoot torpedoes and drop markers autonomously underwater using data from sensors and computer vision, integrated with Robot Operating System (ROS).
• > Secured 2nd position out of 14 at NIOT-SAVe finals, the biggest national level AUV comp. in India.
• > Created a real-time robust underwater object interaction system using image processing methods to
• improve visibility, shape-based pose detection algorithms and color based outline detectors.