Certifications, Patents, Open Source & Honors.

Certifications & Credentials

• IBM – Advanced Generative AI

  Credential ID: CEGENAI1IN

  IBM Career Education Program · Cognitive Class · July 2026

  Official certification powered by IBM Developer Skills Network and IBM Technology Expert Labs (Country Manager Jagadisha Bhat). Validates mastery in Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and production agent architectures. Associated credential code: khfIPYurf6 (Prolearn / Adroit Technologies).

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Honors & Competitions

• Amazon ML Challenge 2026

  AIR 698 · Score 0.9839

  Amazon · Sep 2026 · Team VIT

  Ranked 698 nationwide with a composite benchmark score of 0.983906 competing against premier engineering institutions across India. Built resilient multi-modal feature engineering, stacking ensembles, and deep neural regressors for large-scale prediction tasks.

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• WorldQuant International Quant Championship (IQC) 2026

  AIR 6 · World 26

  WorldQuant · National Finalist · Mumbai

  Achieved All India Rank 6 and World Rank 26 out of 150,000+ teams globally representing VIT at the National Finals in Mumbai with Team Simpson's Paradox. Formulated statistical alphas, predictive signals, and mathematical models across global equity markets.

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Patents & Research

• Smart Self-Healing Drone Propellers

  Patent Filed

  Patent Filed · Application 23BDS1155 · Co-inventor: Saumyarup Guha

  Autonomous self-healing drone propeller system integrating microencapsulated healing polymers, shape-memory alloys (SMA) for thermal deformation recovery, and embedded piezoelectric crack-detection sensors connected to an onboard microcontroller that activates in-flight healing without landing.

• AI Enabled Monocular Gait Analysis

  70.7% Balanced Acc

  Capstone Research · VIT Chennai · Co-author: Debeshi Sen

  Monocular clinical gait analysis pipeline for neurological disorders (Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Myopathic, Normal). Integrates YOLOv8 + ByteTrack tracking, 147-D pelvic-scaled kinematic pose features, and 28-D RAFT dense optical flow into dilated Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN) under strict video-grouped cross-validation. Supervised by Dr. Pavithra L K.

Leadership & Hackathons

• Team Lead — VIT-ISH Hackathon 2025

  SIH Qualifier

  NABHA Health · Smart India Hackathon qualifier

  Led a six-person engineering team tackling SIH Problem Statement SIH25018. Architected voice-based medical triage, cellular-optimized health records, and offline-first sync. Selected as finalist and presented live under competition conditions at VIT-ISH 2025.

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Open Source

• Node.js Core — PR #63491

  Merged

  nodejs/node · Merged Contribution

  Contributed to Node.js core runtime repository. Resolved edge-case behavior in runtime internals; reviewed, approved, and merged into the main codebase by the Node.js core maintainers.

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Production Engineering

• Full-Stack & Applied Machine Learning

  7 Systems

  2024 — Present · Independent & Capstone Systems

  Shipped end-to-end production systems across transport aggregation (RideHub), adaptive traffic infrastructure (Weather-Based Traffic Signal Model), blockchain security (RBAC-DocEncryption), and clinical biomechanics. Built with Next.js 15, FastAPI, PyTorch, and PostgreSQL.