Projects and Research Experience

A personal project to keep up with developments across my interests without checking a growing list of sources. Building a personalized news and recommendation dashboard that groups related stories into a daily brief, adapts through feedback, and connects articles to Notion notes and Todoist tasks.

Built a voice-agent harness using decision APIs to coordinate fast conversation with slower reasoning and tool use. Tested it on tau2-bench’s banking tasks to explore responsiveness and identify failures in routing, speech recognition, and task execution.

Explored whether small, learned audio perturbations can disrupt speech recognition in real time. On filtered LibriSpeech, a PyTorch generator raised a speech model’s word error rate from 3.3% to 65.2%.

Built a system to collect, index and search GROWTH-India Telescope images under Prof. Varun Bhalerao at IIT Bombay, making a growing archive of over 40,000 images searchable and easier for researchers to access.

Contributed observations and measurements of Comet C/2022 N1 (Attard–Maury) and Asteroid 2022 MY2, credited in Minor Planet Electronic Circulars.

Built a course recommender using matrix factorization over enrolment data from 4,297 students across 1,806 courses, suggesting courses based on shared academic interests.

Led a five-person team to design a diethylamine plant with an annual capacity of 12,000 tonnes. Modelled the reactor and designed a 27-stage distillation column to achieve 99% product purity.

Turned SEC 10-K/10-Q filings into structured financial statements and SaaS metrics for a dashboard. Our nine-member team won silver among 10 IITs at Inter IIT.

Helped digitize hostel dining at IIT Bombay for 10,000+ users across 10+ hostels, with NFC ID scanning, meal eligibility checks, and usage dashboards. Built Flask backend services, a Flutter app and an Angular dashboard for mess staff.

Turned a smartphone and homemade stylus into a writing pad for remote teaching during COVID-19, streaming handwriting to a computer in real time.

Contributed to IIT Bombay’s course discovery, review, and resource-sharing platform as part of DevCom. Added resource filtering with standardized tags, timetable sharing, and calendar improvements to help students find relevant material and plan their courses.

Developed combustion models during a winter internship at the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board to study pressure buildup in gas-filled compartments. Built Python tools to predict peak pressure and temperature.

Started as an initiative during my time as an institute system administrator at IIT Bombay to streamline SSL certificate management. Built a Django tool to organize certificates, track expiration dates, and manage certificate-signing requests and renewals, bringing scattered maintenance tasks into one place.

A hobby project sparked by a friend joking that our hostel washing machine was always occupied whenever he went to wash clothes. Built a Telegram bot that lets residents record their usage and check who is using the machine and when it should be free—without walking down to check.