Selected work · 2025 — 2026

Projects.

Competition entries, research probes, internship work, and side projects — from Kaggle math olympiads to retrieval architecture studies to ZK-backed KYC pipelines.

Research Apr 2026 → present

Project Orpheus

Mesa-optimization probe

Do small transformers trained on in-context learning implement gradient descent internally? A mechanistic interpretability probe using TransformerLens, activation patching, and causal tracing.

ResearchActive
TransformerLensActivation patchingICLMesa-optimization
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Capstone · Paper 2025 – 2026

TITAN

KYC + ZK proofs + AML

End-to-end identity verification: AI document forensics, zero-knowledge proofs for private on-chain identity attestation, GNN-based fraud detection. Designed so verifiers confirm identity without seeing raw documents.

CapstoneSeCrypt 2026
CircomZK ProofsGNNKYC/AML
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Competition 2026

ARC AGI 3

Abstract reasoning benchmark

Competing in ARC Prize 2026 — a benchmark designed to test abstract reasoning and out-of-distribution generalization that remains beyond current AI systems. No brute force or memorization works here.

ActiveKaggle
Abstract ReasoningGeneralizationKaggle
Internship Jan – May 2026

Project Rick

Nagravision Kudelski · Agentic AI

Agentic chatbot orchestrating across AWS Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, S3, Athena, Glue, MS Teams. Static knowledge layer over product architecture + dynamic layer for real-time asset telemetry.

Internship
AWS BedrockKnowledge BasesAthenaGlue
Hackathon Sep 2025

WaySafe

Smart tourism safety · Hackverse 2025

Safety-weighted route optimization for tourists. Real-time crime data + crowd density + weather hazards. Built in 36 hours at the hackathon.

Hackverse · 7thMIT Bangalore
SafetyRoutingReal-time
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Side project 2025

CrediCrew

AI recruitment — semantic match

AI-powered resume ↔ JD matching. Sentence-transformer embeddings + FAISS recall + cross-encoder rerank. FastAPI + React with sub-second response times.

Full-Stack
FastAPIReactSentence TransformersFAISS
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