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Hi, I'm a 5th-year Computational Linguistics and Computer Science dual degree student at IIIT Hyderabad. I work on linguistic interpretation of language models at the Language Technologies Research Centre.

Selected Projects

Explored whether traditional Indian grammatical theory applies to modern NLP by probing multilingual transformers. Built biaffine classifiers for morpho-syntactic relation detection across 7 languages.

Investigated frequency-domain adversarial attacks on Llama Guard 3's multimodal safety filters. Combined vision adversarials with language model security testing.

Explored multi-hop QA using teacher-student distillation for reasoning chain transfer. Built a graph traversal RAG pipeline that achieved 15% accuracy boost by teaching smaller models logical paths.

Functional Tensor DSL Monsoon 2024

Experimented with Racket-based tensor DSL, reimagining ML ops through Lisp's compositional philosophy. Built computation graph auto-differentiation from scratch using functional paradigms.

Nanopass compiler in Racket with graph-coloring register allocation. Implemented tuple support and garbage collection using interference graphs for optimal register usage.

Built a black-box detection framework for machine-generated text. Experimented with LoRA adapter fine-tuning for detection tasks, achieving 92% F1 without full retraining.

Network File System Monsoon 2023

Network file system built from scratch in C for parallel clients. Implemented LRU caching and concurrent operations for efficient distributed storage.

ak.sh - A Simple Shell Monsoon 2023

Shell written from scratch in C with piping, I/O redirection, and networking support for fetching man pages.

Enhanced xv6 OS by replacing round-robin scheduler with multi-level feedback queue and implementing copy-on-write with performance evaluation.

Greddiit Spring 2022

A minimal forum built using React Query. Backend powered by TypeScript, Mongoose, and MongoDB.

Mealsource Spring 2022

A mobile app to crowdsource campus meal deliveries. Winner of the hackathon organised by the Open Source Developers Group at IIIT Hyderabad (HackIIIT).