About Me
I am a researcher at Qualcomm AI Research working on model efficiency. Before that, I spent some time working at MSR India on efficient retrieval models. I recently submitted my PhD thesis at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, where I was advised by Dr. Rebekka Burkholz. My research focused on building provable algorithms for deep learning, with a particular focus on sparse training, quantization and efficient optimization methods in general.
I completed my Master's from the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with the Optimization, Probability and Learning Group (OPAL) advised by Prof. Gauri Joshi on optimization algorithms with theoretical guarantees for large-scale machine learning systems.
Prior to CMU, I was an undergraduate at BITS Pilani, India. For my bachelor's thesis, I had the privilege of working with Prof. Rajiv Soundararajan at the Indian Institute of Science on designing Image Quality Assessment models that perceive images similarly to the Human Visual System.
Feel free to get in touch—I am always looking forward to insightful discussions!
News & Timeline
- Oct 2026I joined Qualcomm AI Research as a researcher, working on model efficiency.
- May 2026Had the opportunity to be back in India, working with the ReFoRM team at Microsoft Research India on efficient retrieval models.
- May 2025Spent the summer at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, working on Post Training Quantization with Riccardo Grazzi and James Hensman.
- June 2024I will be doing a research internship with Bosch AI, developing Sparse Mixture of Expert models for efficient inference.
- April 2022Started my PhD with Dr. Rebekka Burkholz at CISPA.
- Dec 2020Graduated with an MS in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University.
- Aug 2020Interned with the Video Systems team at Qualcomm on video denoising algorithms.
- May 2020Joined the OPAL Group at CMU as a Graduate Research Assistant.
- Aug 2019Started as a Master's student at CMU.
- May 2019Graduated from BITS Pilani, Goa Campus.
Talks
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Sept 2026What is AI and what can I do about it? — Invited talk for high school students at Fergusson College, Pune, organized by the Computer Science department. It was a real joy to speak to students in my hometown!
Publications
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NeurIPS 2026 -
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ML for Sys Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) -
NeurIPS 2025 -
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SCOPE Workshop (ICLR 2025) -
ICLR 2024 (Spotlight) -
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Preprints
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Oct 2021