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Interdisciplinary Dual Degree

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Electrical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Researcher

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Working on LoRA-SB and FedEx-LoRA projects under Prof. Praneeth Vepakomma

• Developed novel initialization strategy for low-rank adaptation
• Achieved 90x parameter reduction while matching performance
• Formulated systematic error residual assignment for federated LoRA

Research Intern

MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture Group

Worked on Power-Learning project focusing on differentially private embeddings

• Established theoretical conditions for private data distribution
• Achieved 5% improvement over DP-SGD while maintaining privacy guarantees
• Developed joint learning framework for privacy-utility optimization

AI Research Intern

AWL Inc. Japan

Worked on Core-AI-Engine optimizations

• Implemented parallel processing for face detection and classification
• Developed three graph-based optimization algorithms

Initialization using Update Approximation for Extremely Efficient Low-Rank Fine-tuning

Under Review @ ICML 2025

FedEx-LoRA: Exact Aggregation for Federated Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models

FITML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024

Power Learning: Differentially private embeddings for collaborative learning

Trustworthy ML Workshop @ CIKM 2024

StructFormer: Document Structure-based Masked Attention

Under Review @ TMLR

Undergraduate Research Award (URA 02)

IIT Bombay

Awarded for one of the best bachelor's thesis in the entire batch

Indian National Math Olympiad

HBCSE

Secured State Rank 3

LoRA-SB

• 90x parameter reduction while maintaining performance
• Theoretical guarantees for gradient optimization
• Applied to models up to 9B parameters

GUIDEQ

• Novel occlusion-based method for keyword identification
• Improved F1-scores through enhanced information collection
• Applied to healthcare and legal domains

Design Engineer

IIT Bombay Racing

• Designed autonomous controller for FSSIM simulation
• Won Software Intelligence competition by Ather Energy
• Implemented dynamic control systems

Sports Convener

Institute Sports Council

• Organized Blackcat Championship for varsity teams
• Executed Virtual Run with 1500+ participants