Academic Experiences
Graduate Research Assistant: Fintech & AI
September 2023 - Present
Employer: Dr. Priya Muthukannan
Research School of Management, ANU
Principal Investigator
- Conducting qualitative analysis on open banking regimes using a dynamic capabilities lens.
- Teaching Introduction to Data Analysis in Business Information Systems.
- Developing novel frameworks to study the effects of AI and banking sector responses to technological shifts.
Casual Sessional Academic: Engineering
July 2022 - September 2023
Employers: Dr. Ian Petersen, FAA & Dr. Iman Shames
School of Engineering, ANU
- ENGN8824: Advanced Control Systems (Masters) at ANU, 2023: Tutored the laboratory class of 12 students.
- ENGN4628: Network Optimization and Control at ANU, 2023: Tutored problem-solving sessions in a class of 34 students.
- ENGN4625: Power Systems and Electronics at ANU, 2022: Tutored problem-solving sessions for 16 students.
Internships
Head Automation Intern: Power Systems Automation
March - August 2021
Employer: Mr. Arindam Sanyal
Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, India
Deputy Director (Automation)
- Orchestrated a 17-member team to engineer and implement a self-healing mechanism in the Ring Main Unit-based Power System at Chitpur hospital substation during India's second COVID-19 wave.
- Managed real-time installation of high-voltage DC circuit breakers, linking the substation to multiple power grids.
ML Research Intern: Financial NLP
December 2021 - March 2022
Employer: Mr. Paresh Sharma
Decimal Point Analytics, India
Managing Director
- Engineered and optimized a financial metadata database tailored for RoBERTa-based question-answering systems.
- Facilitated and chaired client meetings for product reassessment and quality assurance.
- Renegotiated contract durations during discussions with the banking tribunal, focusing on stock option roll-over mechanisms.
Research Intern: Finance
December 2020- February 2021
Employer: Mr. Parthasarathi Mukherjee
Laxmi Vilas Bank, India
Ex- CEO, Laxmi Vilas Bank, India
Developed a Markonikov portfolio optimization method using a Competitive Neural Network from multiple time series data.
Undergraduate Research Projects
Undergraduate Researcher: Foundational Deep Learning
March 2022 - June 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Hartley, FAA
School of Computing, ANU
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Employed Neural Networks to assess the invertibility of differentiable functions in closed sample ranges for non-linear processes.
- Demonstrated that normalizing flow networks struggle with global invertibility.
- Formulated an FPGA TIMER algorithm to measure the total computational effort required for minimum convergence.
Undergraduate Researcher: Control & Optimization
December 2021 - March 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Ian Petersen, FAA
School of Engineering, ANU
Professor
- Established a novel algorithm that is deterministic and exponentially faster than classical Nesterov-like methods for convex functions.
- Utilized control theory to formulate universal Lyapunov-based methods for predicting convergence rates in high-resolution ODE approaches.
Summer Research Intern: Passive Radar Signal Processing
May-August 2020
Supervised by V. Venkateshwara Rao, Ex-Director, ARDE
DRDO, India
- Formulated a Kalman filter-centric technique for swift selection of the best-matched filter for incoming radar signals.
- Implemented an FPGA-based multi-processor interface for the analysis of long-range, noise-affected radar signals.
Undergraduate Researcher: Optical Excitation Study in Graphene Sheets
August-December 2019
Supervisors: Prof. Gargi Chakraborty, Dr. Sumathi S, Prof. Shweta B. Thomas
VIT, Vellore
- Developed a model to estimate parametric states for the optical response of viscoelastic graphene sheets under stress.
- Verified the bifurcations and empirically validated the model for larger gains.
Reviewership
- Wiley: Asian Journal of Control, 2023: Paper review on game-theoretic control.
- Asian Control Conference, 2022: Paper review on feedback linearisation for UAV controllers.
- IEEE Xplore ANZCC, 2021: Paper review on non-smooth feedback controllers.