- 💼 Senior AI Engineer at Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, working on the Falcon LLM and Falcon Audio teams
- 🧠 6+ years across LLM pretraining, audio-language models, search & ranking, and NLP
- 📄 Publications at ASRU 2025 and IEEE TPAMI, plus 2 US patents
- 🎓 IIT Dhanbad — Integrated M.Tech, Mathematics & Computing (9.19/10, Rank 3)
- 🏗️ LLM pretraining — architecture design, GQA / SwiGLU, Triton kernels, HF checkpoint conversion
- 🔊 Audio-language models — speech, music & sound understanding (MMAU, AirBench)
- 🚀 Inference optimization — throughput & latency for long-form audio
- 🔎 Search, ranking & retrieval — intent models, pairwise ranking, embedding retrieval
| 🏢 Company | 💼 Role | ⏱️ Duration | ✨ Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| TII | Senior AI Engineer | 2024 – Present | Falcon3 pretraining • Triton kernels • Falcon3-Audio (+10 pts on MMAU/AirBench) |
| Swiggy | Data Scientist II — Search | 2022 – 2024 | Query intent model • Pairwise ranking • Siamese retrieval • 🏆 MVP Award |
| Rakuten Institute of Technology | Data Scientist II — R&D | 2020 – 2022 | NLU FAQ matching • BERT/RoBERTa embeddings at 165M scale |
| IBM India Software Labs | Data Science Intern — Data & AI | Jan – Jul 2020 | Pair-analysis micro-service for InfoSphere MDM • Dockerised REST APIs • 2 US patents |
| National University of Singapore | Research Intern | May – Jul 2019 | Dense video captioning & segmentation benchmarks • IEEE TPAMI 2022 |
| University of Manitoba (Mitacs Globalink) | Research Intern | May – Jul 2018 | Multilevel multiple imputation on longitudinal healthcare data |
- Competitive Audio-Language Models with Data-Efficient Single-Stage Training on Public Data — ASRU 2025
- Transferring Knowledge from Text to Video: Zero-Shot Anticipation for Procedural Actions — IEEE TPAMI 2022
- Automatic Tuning of Thresholds and Weights for Pair Analysis in an MDM System — US Patent 11681671B2
- Pair Selection for Entity Resolution Analysis — US Patent App. 20220035777A1
🤖 LLMs & Training
Falcon3 • Whisper • GQA • SwiGLU • Tensor Parallelism • LoRA/PEFT • TRL
📚 Libraries & Frameworks
PyTorch • Triton • Transformers • Accelerate • Datasets • TensorFlow • PySpark • Scikit-Learn
⚙️ Serving & MLOps
TensorFlow Serving • Seldon • FastAPI • Docker • Grafana
☁️ Platforms & Data
AWS • GCP • Databricks • Redis • Elasticsearch • Hive • Snowflake
- 🥇 Most Valuable Player Award — Swiggy (2023)
- 🇨🇦 Mitacs Globalink Research Intern — top 800 of 10,000 applicants (2018)
- 🎓 Academic Excellence Award, IIT Dhanbad — top 2 for 3 consecutive years
- 📝 JEE Advanced AIR 5035 · JEE Main AIR 6585 (2015)