Academic Experience

Casual Sessional Academic: COMP3670 Introduction to Machine Learning

Duration: 2025 - Present

Employer: Dr. Rahul Shome

Affiliation: School of Computing, ANU

Role: Senior Tutor

  • Tutored hands-on laboratory sessions for 100+ students.
  • Marked examinations and assessed coursework.
  • Supported project work for a class of 250+ students.

Head Tutor: CYBN8001: Building Cyber-Physical Systems

Duration: March 2025 - November 2025

Employer: Dr. Safiya Okai-Ugbaje

Affiliation: School of Cybernetics, ANU

Role: Head Tutor

  • Tutored hands-on laboratory sessions for master's students.
  • Developed student projects on microprocessors, robotics, and machine learning.
  • Led programming for the NAO robot.

Graduate Research Assistant: Fintech & AI

Duration: September 2023 - September 2024

Supervisor: Dr. Priya Muthukannan

Affiliation: Research School of Management, ANU

Role: Graduate Research Assistant

  • Conducted qualitative analysis on open banking regimes to assess dynamic capabilities.
  • Delivered data science bootcamps for beginners.
  • Developed novel frameworks to study the effects of AI and banking sector responses to technological shifts.

Casual Sessional Academic: Engineering

Duration: July 2022 - September 2023

Supervisors: Prof. Ian Petersen, FAA & Prof. Iman Shames

Affiliation: School of Engineering, ANU

  • ENGN8824: Advanced Control Systems (Master's), ANU, 2023: Tutored a laboratory class of 12 students.
  • ENGN4628: Network Optimization and Control, ANU, 2023: Tutored problem-solving sessions for a class of 34 students.
  • ENGN4625: Power Systems and Electronics, ANU, 2022: Tutored problem-solving sessions for 16 students.

Internships

Applied Science PhD Research Intern

Duration: May 2026 - Present

Affiliation: Microsoft Corporation

  • Collaborated across Microsoft AI and the India Development Center to build a post-training RAG module for Copilot and Foundry.
  • Integrated agentic tool-selection skills and multi-chat history retrieval for grounded generations.

Quantitative Research Intern

Duration: Nov 2024 - Feb 2025

Affiliation: Optiver, Asia Pacific, Sydney, Australia

  • Developed, implemented & back-tested a statistical arbitrage model on the Hong Kong exchange.
  • Performed statistical analyses on large-scale financial data to uncover market patterns and operational inefficiencies in Korean markets.
  • Collaborated with traders and developers to build a proprietary, real-time machine learning decision-making system.

ML Research Intern

Duration: December 2021 - February 2022

Affiliation: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Role: Technology and Risk

  • Built a metadata indexing pipeline for question answering over large financial document collections, improving retrieval and analysis scalability.

ML Research Intern: Financial NLP

Duration: December 2020 - March 2021

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 Markowitz-style portfolio optimisation method using a competitive neural network over multiple time-series datasets.

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 passive radar signals.
  • Implemented an FPGA-based multi-processor interface for the analysis of long-range, noise-affected radar signals.
  • Part of the Multi-Layer Air defence system passive signal processing team for the Kavach system.

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 properties of the graphene sheets under stress.
  • Verified the bifurcations and empirically validated the model for larger gains.

Reviewerships

Peer Review Service

  • NeurIPS 2026: Reviewer.
  • ECCV 2026: Reviewer.
  • CVPR 2026: Reviewed papers on generative models, visual uncertainty, egocentric localization, and generative-model theory.
  • ICRA 2026: Reviewed work on small language models for robotics.
  • AAAI 2025: Reviewed papers on spatio-temporal diffusion models and visual uncertainty.
  • IROS 2025: Reviewed papers on LLM-based planning and visuomotor policies.
  • ICRA 2025: Reviewed papers on diffusion-policy planning for robotics.
  • Asian Journal of Control, 2023: Reviewed work on game-theoretic control.
  • Asian Control Conference, 2022: Reviewed work on feedback linearisation for UAV controllers.
  • Australia and New Zealand Control Conference, 2021: Reviewed work on non-smooth feedback controllers.