the research and the work worth reading about live on the main page. this is the rest of the record: what i know my way around, the smaller builds, and where i came from before university.
01 tooling
interpretability
activation patchingcircuit tracingsteering vectorslogit lenscomponent attribution
ml
PyTorchHugging Face TransformersScikit-LearnNumPyPandasMatplotlibLangChain
infra
multi-GPU clustersVRAM-constrained trainingCUDAmixed precisionDockerLinuxGit
languages
PythonJavaC/C++JavaScriptHTML/CSSFlask
concepts
transformersLLMs & VLMsreinforcement learninglinear algebraprobability & statisticsDSAOOP
core cs (learning)
distributed systemsdatabase internalsconcurrencyalgorithms & theory
02 smaller builds
- ml & nlp from scratch: linear/logistic/softmax regression, KNN, k-means, MLP, bag-of-words, TF-IDF, CBOW, skip-gram, byte-pair encoding, naïve Bayes and an LSTM sentiment classifier, all in pure NumPy/PyTorch with no black boxes. github
- Abler: real-time multimodal accessibility assistant for the visually impaired, with object detection, depth estimation, speech and gesture recognition. won eXabyte; best design at Hacknoware. github demo
- ipl 2025 predictor: decision trees, random forests, MLP classifiers and Monte Carlo simulation over a full EDA pipeline, plus a score-based statistical query system. won Brain Dead 2025. github
- Vidvaan: research-paper aggregator unifying DBLP, arXiv, OpenLibrary and OpenAlex, with Gemini summarisation.
- Thomas Raw: agentic travel planner on Gemini and LangChain; plans itineraries, budgets, and identifies locations from photos. github
- MentL: mental wellness assistant; best design award, Hacknoware 2025.
- where am i?: browser-based geography guessing game.
- model frontends: PPG encoder and SMS spam classifier interfaces built to make the underlying models usable; awarded at Tensor Quest, Instruo 2025.
03 certifications deeplearning.ai / google cloud
deep learning specialization convolutional neural networks sequence models structuring ml projects improving deep neural networks genai with Gemini Vertex AI Studio
04 earlier pre-university
school
- all india rank 6 and west bengal rank 5 in the CISCE class 10 board examinations 98.8% aggregate · M. P. Birla Foundation HS School, Kolkata
- isc 95.3% / icse 98.3% 2010 to 2024
competitions
- global rank 12 at the International Mathematical Championship 2022
- 1st at the national essay-cum-elocution contest, Indian Institute of Metals 2023 · paper on the role of ai/ml in materials science