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A collection of my earlier research projects, student activities at IIT Bombay, past internships, and a timeline of key milestones.

Research Projects at IIT Bombay

Jul 2020 — Jun 2021

Natural Answer Generation (Bachelor Thesis)

Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya & Prof. Sriparna Saha — CFILT Lab, IIT Bombay · In collaboration with LG Soft India

  • Developed a system for generating full-length natural language answers from factoid answers using grammar correction techniques
  • Industry collaboration with LG Soft India AI and R&D team; managed and guided annotators in dataset creation
  • Published at ICON '24 (Main Track)
Paper Thesis Slides
Spring 2021

Speech-Driven Facial Animation using Temporal GANs

Prof. Preethi Jyothi, CSE — IIT Bombay · Course Project — Automatic Speech Recognition

  • Built a Temporal GAN model to generate speech-driven facial animations, achieving 23.1 PSNR on GRID dataset
Code
2020 — 2021

Multilingual Relation Extraction

Prof. Soumen Chakraborty, CSE — IIT Bombay

  • Fine-tuned multilingual language models (mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa) on a custom English relation extraction dataset to classify relations across languages
Code
2020

Neural Cross-lingual Summarization: English to Hindi

Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, CSE — IIT Bombay · Course Project — CS626 NLP

  • Implemented a transformer-based architecture for cross-lingual summarization and created a novel dataset for English to Hindi summarization
Code Slides Report

Clubs & Activities at IIT Bombay

Team SeDriCa — Self-Driving Car

Technical Team Member · Path Planning Subsystem

Oct 2018 — Sep 2019

Worked on developing a fully autonomous car for Indian roads. Implemented Bidirectional RRT path planning algorithms in ROS/C++. Finalist in the Mahindra RISE Driverless Car Challenge.

IIT Bombay Racing

Assistant Manager

May 2018 — Apr 2019

Part of the electric vehicle racing team at IIT Bombay, contributing to administrative and technical operations.

Techfest, IIT Bombay

Events Coordinator — Robowars

May 2018 — Dec 2018

Coordinated the Robowars event at Techfest 2018, one of Asia's largest science and technology festivals.

Teaching Assistant — MA 106 Linear Algebra

Undergraduate TA

Mar 2021 — May 2021

Conducted weekly tutorial discussions and doubt-solving sessions for a batch of 55 students. Assisted in conducting online exams and quiz evaluations.

Research Week with Google AI

Natural Language Understanding Track

Feb 8–11, 2022

Shortlisted and participated in Research Week with Google in the NLU track, collaborating with Google AI researchers.

Earlier Internships

May — Jul 2020

Data Science Intern

Prodigal

May — Jul 2019

Conversational AI Intern

Samespace

Mumbai, India

Timeline

Sept 2025

Started MS in Data Science at UC San Diego

May 2025

Joined Prof. Rose Yu's Spatiotemporal ML Lab as a Graduate Student Researcher

Mar 2024

Joined Microsoft AI as Data & Applied Scientist 2 on the Bing Autosuggest team

Feb 2023

Moved to Bangalore — the Silicon Valley & AI capital of India

Dec 2022

Started working as Associate ML Scientist at Wadhwani AI

Feb 2022

Attended Research Week with Google in the NLU track

Aug 2021

Graduated from IIT Bombay with double minors

Jul 2021

Started first job as a Data Scientist at HiLabs

Jun 2021

Successfully defended Bachelor thesis on Natural Answer Generation

May 2021

Final semester done, AI & DS minor completed. SPI — 9.60/10

Jun 2020

AI research intern at Daikin Technology and Innovation Center in Osaka, Japan

May 2019

Interned at Samespace, Mumbai

Jul 2018

Started Computer Science minor at IIT Bombay

Jul 2017

Started the journey at IIT Bombay