CV

PhD in Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA

• PhD candidate in Computer Science for the Intelligent Systems track.
• Research Assistant with Prof.Rishabh Iyer at the CARAML lab.

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

• Graduated as a gold-medalist in the department by scoring a GPA of 9.68/10.0.
• Worked as a Undergrad Researcher at the Smart Grid Lab, advised by Prof. Gnana Swathika O.V.

Data and Applied Scientist II

Microsoft, India

• Developed an Entity Centric Language model to improve identification of products, brands etc. resulting in 12\% revenue gain in Search Advertising.
• Mentored an intern to develop an evaluation framework to benchmark entity centric language models which is used across 3+ teams in Microsoft Advertising.

Applied Research Scientist

Intel, India

• Leading the development of Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) and Few-Shot Incremental Learning (FSIL) algorithms in Pytorch for detecting rare or unseen road objects in unconstrained driving environments.
• Mentored two interns whose work on Few-Shot Object Detection has been submitted to conferences like ICCV and WACV.

Undergraduate Technical Intern

Intel, India

• Developed Edge Inferencing framework to deploy Computer Vision models on multiple edge hardwares including Intel Neural Compute Sticks.

• Delivered a Keynote at VIT Chennai on Virtual Electrical Networks, Seamless Integration and Fault Clearance in Reconfigurable Microgrids.
• Appointed a Research Assistant at CARAML lab.

• Appointed a Teaching Assistant at Department of Computer Science, UT Dallas.