Professional Experience
Co-founder
Kimova AI
Pioneering ISO auditing company leveraging AI technology to transform cybersecurity and compliance practices.
- Secured backing from the Google Cloud Startup Program to accelerate growth and enhance service offerings
- Revolutionizing ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance assessments with innovative solutions
- Spearheaded strategic partnerships and client engagements, driving business development
Postdoctoral Researcher
TalTech University, Estonia
- Leading multidisciplinary research under the EXAI grant focusing on multimodal reasoning agents
- Designing novel evaluation pipelines for large vision-language models
- Developed AI agents demonstrating enhanced reasoning capabilities
- Established new state-of-the-art benchmarks on real-world datasets
Data Scientist
Sandvik GmbH - Center for AI and Automation
- Led development and deployment of end-to-end AI solutions within Azure environment
- Collaborated with stakeholders to align business needs and execute strategic initiatives
- Delivered platform responsibility ensuring seamless integration of AI services
Researcher
German AI Research Center (DFKI)
- Designed perception systems for driver behavioral modeling in CCAM projects
- Applied Bayesian Belief Networks for scalable Driver Behavioral Models
- Contributed to EU Horizon project BERTHA
Doctoral Researcher
Serre Lab, Brown University
- Conducted research on abstract reasoning tasks and attention mechanisms
- Developed novel architectures combining attention and memory
- Published papers in NeurIPS, ICLR, and Neural Computation
- Optimized multi-million parameter Transformer models
- Worked with multi-GPU environments using Slurm on HPC clusters
Entrepreneurial Experience
Shree Bherunath Granite
Rajsamad, India (2014-2016)
Helped family setup granite mines and oversaw day-to-day operations supervising 20 employees.
Kevin Technology
Ajmer, India (2016-2017)
Co-founded a startup developing surveillance systems based on computer vision techniques.
Industrial Experience
Research Engineer
WeDiagnostiX
Feb 2019 - July 2019
- Developed first working prototype for maxillary structures classification from X-ray images
- Utilized Deep Learning for semantic and instance segmentation of teeth
- Created end-to-end pipeline from data collection to functional prototype
Research Engineer
Quelia Systems Inc.
July 2018 - Aug 2018
- Developed application for tire wear estimation using mobile camera
- Applied computer vision techniques for tread depth measurement
- Enhanced road safety through user-friendly tire assessment solution
Academic Experience
Peer Review & Editorial Work
Reviewer for prestigious journals and conferences including:
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2012)
- NeurIPS (2021)
- CVPR (2022, 2023)
- ICML (2022)
- ECCV (2022)
Research Assistant
Ajman University, U.A.E.
Conducted research in computer vision and machine learning applications.
Offshore Research Collaboration
Suspect Technologies (MIT Camera Culture Group)
Collaborated with startup founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Camera Culture Group members.
Kumbhathon Challenge 2015
Kumbha Festival Innovation
Contributed to innovating Kumbha festival in collaboration with MIT USA, focusing on "Abnormal Motion Detection" technologies.
Summer Research Internship
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Advisor: Prof. K R Ramakrishnan
Project: Authored comprehensive survey article on "3D Video Synopsis: Capturing to Transmission"
Global Internship Program In Engineering Innovation And Design
GIPEDI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
Advisor: Prof. Subrat Kar
Project: Comprehensive review on Compression Sensing techniques and applications
Research Project
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur
Advisor: Prof. Anil Kumar Tiwari
Project: Developed innovative lossless video compression techniques and published findings in top-tier Data Compression Conference
Conference Talks
Using Artificial Intelligence To Identify Fossil Angiosperm Leaves At Family Level
Geological Society of America, Connects, Denver (USA) 2022
Understanding how deep neural networks categorize living and fossil leaves
Botany (virtual) 2021
A deep-learning-based approach for automated fossil leaf identification
Botany (virtual) 2021
Computational models of visual reasoning
Brown Unconference, 2021
Teaching
M1 Student Supervision
Paul Sabastier University, France
January - May 2021
Supervised 15 M1 students for the course Initiation to research work (project) (EMINC2B2), guiding them through their first research experiences.
Computer Vision Instructor
Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, France
March - May 2021, 2022
Taught Basics of Introduction to Computer Vision course, covering fundamental concepts and advanced applications.
Visual Reasoning Instructor
Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, France
March - May 2021, 2022
Designed and delivered Visual Reasoning in Computer Vision course, exploring advanced AI reasoning mechanisms.
Teaching Assistant
The LNMIIT, Jaipur, India
Assisted in Electronics laboratory sessions, helping students with practical implementations and theoretical understanding.
Workshops & Professional Development
Reinforcement Learning Virtual School
Organized by ANITI, 2021
Advanced training in reinforcement learning algorithms, theory, and applications in modern AI systems.
Computational Neuroscience
Coursera, 2021
Comprehensive course covering mathematical models of brain function and neural computation principles.
Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich
September 2020
Specialized training in computational approaches to understanding psychiatric disorders and mental health.