Projects


Postdoctoral

Sep 2025 – Onward
MBZUAI × Etihad Airways

Leading an applied research collaboration on a multilingual conversational chatbot for flight booking, customer support, and other aviation services. Spans LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over airline knowledge bases, and grounding for factual reliability.


Industry

Dec 2024 – Apr 2025
KrtrimaIQ

Senior AI Engineer working on agentic-AI frameworks, LLM fine-tuning, and RAG pipelines. Led two key projects: Mathematical Reasoning for Olympiad-level problems in LaTeX, and Teaching Assistant for generating exam questions across school, college, and competitive levels.

Feb 2024 – Nov 2024
Adroitent, Inc.

AI/ML Scientist working on Routing RAG agents and integrating LLMs (LLaMA, GPT, Mistral) with indexing systems (ChromaDB, FAISS, Azure) for the DROIT search engine, profile-matching chatbot, and medical-domain AI (journal search, summarization, QA chatbot).


Academic

Jul 2020 – Jun 2023
Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children

Funded by the Ministry of Home Affairs, India. Two modules: (1) Multimodal & multilingual sentiment/emotion analysis system for victims, and (2) AI-based interactive counseling chatbot for victims.

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020
Sentiment Analysis for Business Intelligence

Funded by SkyMap Global Pte Ltd, Singapore. Deep learning-based sentiment analysis to identify client intentions toward closing deals and provide actionable business insights.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017
Modeling Person Re-identification through Hypergraphs

M.Tech thesis at NIT Rourkela. Recognizing and tracking individuals across non-overlapping camera views, addressing illumination changes, viewpoint variations, and scale variations.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2014
Laser-Projected Virtual Piano (VIANO)

B.Tech project at MIET Meerut. A portable musical experience using laser projection and finger tracking to turn any surface into an interactive piano.