Changelog & Milestones

A running log of research progress, roles, achievements, and credentials.

Timeline

Released IDRiD-VQA — Model, Dataset & Paper

Jul 2026

Fine-tuned Qwen2-VL-2B (QLoRA) for explainable diabetic retinopathy grading on a 6 GB consumer GPU — 66% accuracy, 0.76 QWK. Published the model and a 2,064-pair clinical VQA dataset on Hugging Face, with an ACL-format paper and offline Gradio demo.

Shipped Fake News Detection Pipeline

Jul 2026

Built a fully reproducible fake-news classifier (TF-IDF + Passive-Aggressive) reaching 0.99 F1 — with unit tests, GitHub Actions CI, a Gradio demo, and a candid write-up on source leakage and model limitations.

Research Intern — VLED Lab, IIT Ropar

May 2026 – Present

Joined the Vicharanashala Lab for Education Design under Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar, deploying AI/ML pipelines targeting gaps in India's education ecosystem with direct commit authorship on live open-source repositories.

India AI Impact Buildathon — Top 2% National Finalist

2026

Recognized among the top 2% out of 40,000+ participants nationwide (GUVI–HCL) for innovation, technical excellence, and AI-driven problem-solving.

Automated Subjective Answer Sheet Evaluation System

May 2026

Completed a BERT/SBERT-based grading pipeline with OCR for handwritten answers, cutting manual evaluation time by over 70%. Built under Dr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, REC Kannauj.

Hybrid RNN-Transformer Efficiency Research

Current

Developing a hybrid architecture for low-resource language modeling, balancing memory footprint and inference latency without sacrificing accuracy.

Google Student Ambassador — Gemini

Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

Led technical outreach for Google Gemini across campus, organizing AI workshops and tool integration sessions.

Certifications