experience
- [mar 2026 - present] research intern @ AI4Bharat — circuit tracing for reasoning problems posed in various modalities across model sizes, languages for various SoTA open models.
- [aug 2025 - dec 2025] ai engineer intern @ Sarvam AI — eval framework for NVIDIA lipsync; detected and fixed 500% file size increase in lip-sync model output; modularized dubbing pipeline; a/b tests on prompt structures
solo research projects
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forgeformer — hand-designed 2-layer transformer that adds two-digit numbers; no gradient descent. demonstrated transformer
internals in a model designed with interpretable weights from ground-up.
[writeup] · [demo] - seven deadly sins of gemma — steering vectors per sin in gemma-2-2b; verified the vectors via steering examples and activation patch analysis. [writeup]
some of the works done with other orgs are not publishable.
education
- [2024 — 2028] b.tech, information technology @ IIEST Shibpur — CGPA 9.15
- [2010 — 2024] m. p. birla foundation higher secondary school — ISC 95.3% / ICSE 98.3%
- INSPIRE scholar — Govt. of India (awarded to top 1% in the higher-secondary board qualifying exam)
→ other — certifications, hackathon wins, skills, smaller builds & awards