projects
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Director’s Gold Medal
BITS Pilani
Graduated with a CGPA of 9.83/10.
Institute Merit Scholarship
BITS Pilani
Full tuition waiver for consistently ranking in the top 1% of the institute.
Machine Learning Summer School
Amazon
Selected for and completed an integrated machine-learning training programme with Amazon experts.
community
Volunteer · Vision Empowerment
Microsoft Research India · Bangalore
Designed Braille-based learning aids to help children with visual impairments learn basic mathematics through haptic feedback.
Publicity Coordinator · Arunodoi
BITS Pilani
Led photo- and video-editing teams to promote Northeast India’s cultural awareness and community engagement.
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.