Pulp AI

Jul 2025 – Dec 2025
Co-Founder Founder

Built a simulation platform to let product teams test copy, features, and pricing against AI-generated customer personas — shipping decisions in minutes instead of weeks.

  • Shipped MVP in 3 weeks on FastAPI, Postgres (pgvector), Redis, and Docker with CI/CD
  • Built an LLM-driven persona engine with clustering that turns qualitative reasons into actionable recommendations
  • Ran pilots and back-tested against historical A/B tests showing 60–70% predictive accuracy
  • Led GTM across ICP definition, pricing tests, waitlist-to-beta funnel, and design-partner onboarding

Edvo

Feb 2024 – Jul 2025
Founder Founder

Built an adaptive assessment co-pilot that asks one question at a time, analyzes the answer, and targets each student's mastery gaps in real time.

  • Piloted at local tuition centres, demonstrating measurable increase in learning efficiency
  • Conducted field interviews with educators — uncovering tech-averse faculty, unreliable infrastructure, and crowded LMS market dynamics

Primeplay Rentals

Oct 2024 – Feb 2025
Founder Founder

Built a peer-to-peer rental platform for high-value gear, validated through interviews and pilots across India's scuba diving communities.

  • Facilitated smooth transfer of gear across India's scuba diving communities
  • Validated product-market fit through customer interviews and live pilots

Wadhwani AI

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024
Associate ML Scientist – II ML

Led two national-scale ML deployments: a real-time disease outbreak detection pipeline for India's NCDC and a pest management system serving thousands of farmers.

  • NCDC Outbreak Alert Pipeline: deployed a multi-stage, multi-lingual detection pipeline (rule-based filters → BERT → LLMs → clustering) scanning 400M+ media sources, issuing 100K+ alerts, and verifying 5K+ outbreaks. Published at ACL 2025
  • Pest Management: trained ResNets, InceptionNets, and EfficientNets for pest detection on cotton and rice farms; advanced augmentation improved robustness by 14%, directly helping 10,000+ farmers

Wadhwani AI

May 2021 – Dec 2023
Associate ML Scientist – I ML

Built and deployed ML systems for TB treatment adherence prediction and oral cancer screening at national scale.

  • National TB Adherence Prediction: built a similarity-encoded ensemble (XGBoost, LightGBM, EBM) on 0.8M Nikshay TB cases — AUC ROC 0.80, Recall@20 of 0.62 (3× baseline). Deployed across 15 states, flagging 100K+ high-risk patients. Best Paper at ML4H @ NeurIPS 2022
  • Diffusion-Augmented Oral Cancer Screening: developed a lightweight CNN for early oral cancer risk; diffusion-augmented training lifted recall from 79% to 91%. Co-led data ops with PGIMER Chandigarh on 10K+ labelled oral lesion images

Wadhwani AI

Sep 2020 – May 2021
Research Fellow Research

Built large-scale record-linkage systems for India's National Digital Health Mission and the CoWIN vaccination platform.

  • Probabilistic Health ID Matching: de-duplication engine using TF-IDF blocking, MinHash-LSH, and GBDT — merged 90M+ patient records with 96% precision and 92% recall, cutting manual review by ~80%
  • Re-tooled the pipeline for CoWIN to screen sign-ups and block duplicate vaccination attempts during India's nationwide COVID vaccination drives

Education

Academic background

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani — Goa Campus

Aug 2015 – Jul 2020

B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science & M.Sc.(Hons.) Economics

GPA: 3.5 / 4.0 (8.7 / 10.0)

Earlier experience

Internships

Microsoft Research, India

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020
Research Intern

Synthesising Programs from Images with Little to No Ground Truth Labels

Built a program synthesis system to extract code from images using reinforcement learning, zeroth-order optimisation, and conditional priors in a GAN setting.

IIIT Hyderabad

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018
Research Intern

Understanding verb-based dependencies in NMT using a Seq2Seq model

Built a customised Seq2Seq variant to improve NMT translation accuracy by reducing verb-phrase proximity between source and target languages.

Happiest Minds, Bangalore

May 2017 – Jul 2017
Software Engineering Intern

Video and Image Analytics for Retail Manufacturing

Built a one-shot facial recognition module to replace biometric scanners and an anomaly detector for disorganised store shelves using existing CCTV infrastructure.