I am interested in making AI systems safe as well as efficient.
Recent Events
• June 2025:
Selected among 50 students across India for ACM AI Summer School 2025 at IIT Gandhinagar.
Interacted with Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan (MD, Microsoft Research India) and Dr. Manish Gupta (Sr. Director, Google DeepMind India).
• March 2025:
Conference jointly organised by IIT Delhi, IIIT Delhi, IIT Jodhpur, and IIT Jammu.
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Research Experience
• Ongoing Research:
IIT Gandhinagar, Lingo Lab: Interpretability in Multilingual LLMs
• Previous Research:
University of South Carolina: Synthetic dataset generation for Jailbreak prompts using SOTA LLMs.
BITS Pilani: Co-authored a research paper with Prof. Nikumani Choudhury on feature selection in LoRaWAN.
National Institute of Technology, Trichy: Adversarial example generation with FGSM and DeepFool to misclassify finetuned ResNet50.
Details on LinkedIn
Hackathon
• Finalist in multiple national ML and software hackathons, as a team leader.
~Amazon ML challenge 2024: 357th rank out of 74,829 [Medium Article]
~IIT Dhanbad (HackFest) 2024: Finalist, built AI snipping tool, 35+ GitHub Stars
~IIIT Ranchi (House of Hacker) 2023: Pre-Finalist
Open Source
1. Notable Pull Requests merged: count intersection LoRA finetuning notebook :
count intersection LoRA finetuning notebook
2. Multiple critical GitHub Issues raised on important repos:
[Functionality Misssing]: Bringing back the auto detect feature and language feature
GSM8K score mismatch between offical score and eka-eval
3. Created the following datasets, combined 1000+ downloads on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Trilingual lexicon dataset in English, French and Portuguese. https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLap/English-French-Portuguese-Lexicon
SentiHin-2500 (Hindi Sentimental Analysis dataset). https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLap/SentiHin-2500
Book-Scan-OCR https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLap/Book-Scan-OCR
Sentiment2Emoji https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLap/Sentiment2Emoji
Research Interest
Evolving Deep Learning Paradigms in Language and Vision (State Space Models, Reasoning Foundational Models)
AI Safety (Alignment, Adversarial & Jailbreak Robustness, Interpretability)