others

Projects, awards, community activities, and life beyond research.

projects

Sep 2025–Jan 2026

NeuroReach VR

Mixed-reality rehabilitation for stroke recovery

Built a pass-through mixed-reality system on Meta Quest 3S with Logitech MX Ink for gross- and fine-motor training. Added clinician-readable event-level CSV logging. A 10-user pilot achieved a System Usability Scale score of 79.7/100.

Supervision: Marwen Mokni and Christoph Bauer.

Oct–Dec 2023

Systemic Diabetic Retinopathy Analysis

Machine learning for healthcare

Developed a portal for studying systemic factors in diabetic retinopathy. Compared TabNet and DeepForests on tabular data across hospitals in India and Hong Kong, achieving over 80% model-testing accuracy.

Supervision: Sundaresan Raman.

Jan–May 2023

Dynamic Third-Person Shooter

Game development

Built a 3D open-world game in C# with missions, day–night cycles, and an inventory system. Integrated Blender assets, Unity animations, and Cinemachine camera controls.

Oct–Dec 2021

Text-Based Fake News Classification

Natural language processing

Compared LSTM, Bi-LSTM, and ensemble classifiers for online misinformation detection, achieving over 90% across the reported evaluation metrics. This work was included in the proceedings of Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2022).

awards & recognition

Jan–Apr 2026

ASIA 2026 Data Challenge · Track 2 Winner

American Spinal Injury Association

Won the longitudinal ISNCSCI imputation track, reconstructing full neurological sensory examinations from expedited assessments and baseline examinations. Built a leakage-safe pipeline with target-wise TabPFNv2.5 bagging, copy-through, symmetry, modality, and anchor post-processing.

Supervision: Diego Paez-Granados.

2024

Director’s Gold Medal

BITS Pilani

Graduated with a CGPA of 9.83/10.

2020–2024

Institute Merit Scholarship

BITS Pilani

Full tuition waiver for consistently ranking in the top 1% of the institute.

Jun–Jul 2022

Machine Learning Summer School

Amazon

Selected for and completed an integrated machine-learning training programme with Amazon experts.

community

Oct–Nov 2024

Volunteer · Vision Empowerment

Microsoft Research India · Bangalore

Designed Braille-based learning aids to help children with visual impairments learn basic mathematics through haptic feedback.

Jan–Dec 2022

Publicity Coordinator · Arunodoi

BITS Pilani

Led photo- and video-editing teams to promote Northeast India’s cultural awareness and community engagement.

Nov 2021–Jan 2022

Volunteer · Indian Red Cross Society

BITS Pilani

Helped organize a two-day blood donation camp with over 3,000 attendees and over 800 donations.

beyond research

I enjoy fiction and non-fiction, sitcoms, and thrillers with a touch of horror. I also follow cricket, chess, and WWE, and enjoy keeping up with new ideas and technology.