CV

Master of Science

New York University

Electrical Engineering

• Machine Learning
• High Performance Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Big Data
• Computer Vision
• Wireless Communications
• Probability & Stochastic Processes
• Digital Signal Processing
• Internet Architecture & Protocols

Bachelor of Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology

Electronics & Communication Engineering

• Object Oriented Programming
• Advanced JAVA Programming
• Statistics
• Applied Linear Algebra
• Cryptography and Network Security
• VLSI System Design
• Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical

Data Science Intern

Johnson & Johnson

Developed ML models to improve performance of devices used in open laparoscopic surgeries.

• Generative AI & Data Science
• Python

Quantum Communcations Researcher

Indian Space Research Organization

Researched on various measures to improve space-to-ground BB84 Quantum Key Distribution processes.

• Free Space Optics & Wireless Communications
• MATLAB, Python, C/C++, FPGA, LabVIEW

Network & Instrumentation Intern

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.

Examined MPLS and SD-WAN technologies in the M(IS) department & optimized the intricate operations of the preliminary refining pipelines in Atmospheric Unit (AU) IV.

• Network Design and Security
• TCP/IP, Wireshark, Bash

Alternate Senator

NYU Student Government Assembly (New York University)

Advocated for graduate student interests in university senate meetings, influencing policies to enhance campus safety, diversity, and inclusivity.

• Advocated for 40+ policies and reforms.
• Organized 30+ events and tabling sessions impacting 10000+ students, faculty and staff.

Graduate Orientation Captain

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Led 40+ orientation leaders to onboard 1,600+ students at NYU Tandon, organizing inclusive events to foster community and ensure a seamless orientation experience during Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

• Managed 20+ events within a span of 3 days to provide a remarkable welcome to incoming students.

LAUNCH Peer Mentor

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Mentored 12 first-year graduate students at NYU Tandon, organizing workshops on time management, networking, and leadership to support their academic and professional growth.

• Awarded $700 in recognition for exceptional mentorship and leadership.

Administrative Assistant

Blind People's Association

Supervised activities at Rasotsav-22 for the Blind People’s Association and taught Science, Math, Computer, and Chess to ~100 students requiring special needs in grades 9-12.

• Awarded 'Best Organizer' for Rasotsav-22.
• Directly managed 15+ events impacting 100+ children with distinct support needs and 100+ volunteers.

Emerging Leaders Award (GR)

New York University

Recognized for outstanding leadership initiatives and student engagement at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

NYU Tandon Ambassador Scholarship

New York University

Awarded $4300 in recognition for being a NYU Tandon Ambassador.

NYU Merit Scholarship

New York University

Awarded $8000/yr in recognition of previous academic achievements.

Automated Toll Collection System with Vehicle Categorization and Enhanced Security

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology

Developed an automated toll collection system leveraging RFID and IoT technologies to optimize toll plaza operations, enhance security, and reduce congestion by 40%.

Intelligent Road Illumination Network using IoT

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology

Developed a novel road illumination system using IoT and embedded controlllers, saving 85% energy and intelligent load balancing.

Efficient Federated Learning

Pioneered an efficient Federated Learning framework, reducing training time by 22%, boosting model generalization, and increasing bandwidth efficiency by 143% using gradient compression and mixed-precision training on ResNet models with PyTorch DDP, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face Accelerate.

• Federated Learning, Distributed Systems, Distributed Deep Learning, High Performance Computing

Movie Recommendation System with NCF

Built and deployed a scalable movie recommendation system using NCF, achieving a 50% Hit Ratio on MovieLens 1M, and optimized a 1M-record data pipeline with Spark processing, SQL backend, and Streamlit frontend, reducing recommendation retrieval time by 33%.

• Recommendation Systems, Neural Collaborative Filtering, Statistical Data Analysis

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Enhanced a transformer-based emotion recognition framework, achieving 33.96% top-1 and 98.13% top-5 precision on RAVDESS data, by integrating facial and vocal cues and applying advanced fusion techniques to process 4,000+ signals, improving robustness in noisy datasets.

• Emotion Recognition, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Transformer Models, Speech Processing

Multi-User Massive MIMO Channel Estimation

Used MATLAB’s 5G toolbox for ray tracing an indoor sub-6G massive MIMO scenario at 2.5 GHz, generating 4 channel datasets with varying base stations, and developed a cGAN-based estimation method that outperformed U-Net, CNN, and MLP, achieving significant dB gains and accurate channel images at lower SNRs.

• Channel Estimation, 5G Protocols, Wireless Communications, Ray Tracing, Generative Adversarial Networks