My current work always redirects from here.
Current interests are primarily in the realms of distributed computing and optimization theory.
I have in the past, in various capacities, worked on: pretraining large, production-grade transformers, built models for recommendation systems serving over 100 million active users daily, worked on low-latency quant research, won a best paper award for scientific models to predict geomagnetic storms and solar flares before they happen, wrote unsupervised classifiers for distant celestial bodies from sparse telescopic data with NASA JPL, and solved a (reasonably hard), unsolved partial differential equation that will (hopefully!) revolutionize how we calculate signed distance functions.
All this has been possible with an amazing set of teammates and mentors over the past 5 years.
My affiliations have fortunately been with some great and wonderful institutions, and this is an inexhaustive list of places I've worked with actively for at least 4 months: Caltech (2023), NASA JPL (2023-24), MIT (2024), ISRO (2023), DRDO (2022), IIT Gandhinagar (2020-24). I graduated in 2024, and have since spent time working with Microsoft Research.
I come from a family of folk theatre artistes, brought up in the borders of India. I have travelled the length and breadth of the country, as part of the troupe as a child, and solo as a new adult. One picks up a few good stories along the way.