Academic Experiences
Graduate Research Assistant: Fintech & AI
Duration: September 2023 - September 2024
Employer: Dr. Priya Muthukannan
Affiliation: Research School of Management, ANU
Role: Principal Investigator
- Conducting qualitative analysis on open banking regimes to assess the dynamic capabilities.
- Data Science Bootcamps for Beginners
- Developing novel frameworks to study the effects of AI and banking sector responses to technological shifts.
Casual Sessional Academic: Engineering
Duration: July 2022 - September 2023
Employers: Prof. Ian Petersen, FAA & Prof. Iman Shames
Affiliation: 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
Incoming Quantitative Research Intern
Duration: Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Affiliation: Optiver, Asia Pacific, Sydney, Australia
Head Automation Intern: Power Systems Automation
Duration: March - August 2021
Affiliation: Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, India
- 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
Duration: December 2021 - March 2022
Employer: Mr. Paresh Sharma
Affiliation: Decimal Point Analytics, India
- 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
Duration: December 2020 - February 2021
Employer: Mr. Parthasarathi Mukherjee
Affiliation: Laxmi Vilas Bank, India
Role: 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
Duration: March 2022 - June 2022
Supervisor: Prof. Richard Hartley, FAA
Affiliation: School of Computing, ANU
Role: 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
Duration: December 2021 - March 2022
Supervisor: Prof. Ian Petersen, FAA
Affiliation: School of Engineering, ANU
- 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
Duration: May - August 2020
Supervised by: V. Venkateshwara Rao, Ex-Director, ARDE
Affiliation: 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
Duration: August - December 2019
Supervisors: Prof. Gargi Chakraborty, Dr. Sumathi S, Prof. Shweta B. Thomas
Affiliation: 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.
Reviewerships
Reviewership
- IEEE Xplore, ICRA, 2025: Paper Review on the application of Diffusion in Robotics.
- 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.