| Oct 19, 2025 | 🎉 LeMat-GenBench has been awarded a spotlight at the NeurIPS AI4Mat Workshop! |
| Sep 21, 2025 | 🎉 Both LeMat-GenBench and LeMat-Synth have been accepted to the AI4Mat Workshop at NeurIPS 2025! Excited to contribute to AI-driven materials discovery research. |
| Jan 06, 2025 | Thrilled to join Entalpic as a Machine Learning Research Engineer! Excited to work on cutting-edge AI for accelerated materials discovery. 🚀 |
| Dec 10, 2024 | Our work on “Out-of-Distribution performance as a proxy metric for graph neural network explainers in the absence of ground-truth explanations” was presented at the WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024! Grateful to collaborate with Guadalupe Gonzalez and Chirag Agarwal. Thanks to Guadalupe for presenting our work! |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Delighted to announce that our shared task submission “Brotherhood at WMT 2024: Leveraging LLM-Generated Contextual Conversations for Cross-Lingual Image Captioning” has been accepted for poster presentation at WMT 2024! |
| Sep 20, 2024 | 🎉 Our paper “De-Identification of Sensitive Personal Data in Datasets Derived from IIT-CDIP” has been accepted at EMNLP 2024 Main Conference! Proud to contribute to privacy-preserving ML research alongside Stefan Larson and collaborators. |
| Jul 20, 2024 | Joined Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited as a Data Scientist in the Risk Analytics team, Business Intelligence Unit! Looking forward to contributing to impactful financial analytics. 💼 |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Excited to announce that my thesis work has been accepted for presentation as a poster at MLCB 2024 (Machine Learning for Computational Biology)! 🧬 |
| Jul 01, 2024 | Graduated with a Dual Degree in Biological Engineering and Data Science from IIT Madras with a CGPA of 9.02/10 and Department Rank 3! Grateful for this incredible journey. 🎓 |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Incredibly honored! My thesis has been nominated for the Best Thesis in Data Science Award at IIT Madras and received a perfect 10/10 score from the thesis committee! 🎓 |
| May 15, 2024 | 🏆 Second Runner-up in the Poster Session at WSAI Annual Research Showcase, Wadhwani School for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras! Presented work on “Sequence-informed Structured Graph Neural Networks to Screen Diffusion-generated Proteins for Enhanced Function.” |
| Mar 10, 2024 | 🏆 Won 1st place at the Piramal Finance Data Science Hackathon among 1000+ participants, securing prizes worth ₹100,000 and a full-time job offer! Developed an ensemble model achieving 0.88 AUC-ROC for home loan acquisition. |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Presented my thesis work on “Leveraging Deep Learning to Combine Sequence and Structure for Protein Function Prediction” at Contemporary Perspectives in Computational Biology at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. 📊 |
| Jan 20, 2024 | 🏆 Our team placed 3rd out of 340 teams at the Temenos Encryptcon AI for Green Finance Hackathon, winning prizes worth $7,500! Proud of our platform for evaluating green finance projects using multimodal AI. |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Our review paper “Advances in generative modeling methods and datasets to design novel enzymes for renewable chemicals and fuels” has been published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology (Impact Factor: 7.7)! 📄 |
| Aug 01, 2023 | Starting my Dual Degree Thesis on Enhancing Protein Fitness with Deep Learning under the guidance of Professor Mahadevan and Professor Nirav Bhatt! Exploring Graph Neural Networks and protein language models for protein function prediction and generative design. 🧬 |
| May 17, 2023 | Excited to begin my MITACS internship at the Laboratory for Metabolic Systems Engineering, University of Toronto! Working on deep learning pipelines for enzyme activity prediction. |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Thrilled to be selected as a MITACS Globalink Research Intern to work on ML for enzyme engineering under Professor Radhakrishnan Mahadevan at University of Toronto for Summer 2023! 🇨🇦 |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Grateful to receive summer internship offers in Machine Learning from UPL Limited and Oracle NetSuite for 2023! |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Honored to be selected for the Amazon ML Summer School 2022! Excited to learn from world-class researchers and practitioners. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | Started my research fellowship at Baker Lab, IPD, University of Washington! Looking forward to exploring Graph Neural Networks and transformers for protein design. 🔬 |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Incredibly excited to be selected for the IPD Summer Research Fellowship at Baker Lab, University of Washington under Dr. David Baker! Will be working on Deep Learning for Protein Inverse Folding. 🧪 |
| Jan 25, 2022 | 🏆 Team iGEM IIT Madras received the Unique Idea Award at the National Bioengineering Conference 2022! Proud of our innovative approach to sustainable bioengineering. |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Thrilled to be among the top 75 students at IIT Madras whose Master’s degree was upgraded to Data Science! Grateful for this recognition. 📊 |
| Jan 15, 2022 | Honored to receive the Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship to work on ML for Synthetic Biology at JNCASR, Bengaluru! 🔬 |
| Dec 10, 2021 | 🏆 Team GEnoM won the Gold Medal with awards for Best Computational and Overall Project at the Global Open Genetic Engineering Conference 2021! Proud of our work on utilizing whey water to produce bacterial cellulose-based insulin patches. |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Delighted to join Team iGEM IIT Madras for the international synthetic biology competition! Looking forward to contributing to cutting-edge bioengineering research. 🧬 |
| Jul 01, 2021 | Honored to be promoted to Team Lead of the Robotic Personal Assistant project at iBot! Leading an amazing team of 8 members. 🚀 |
| Jul 01, 2020 | Excited to join iBot, The Robotics Club at IIT Madras as a Coordinator and Project Member for the Robotic Personal Assistant project! 🤖 |
| Jul 15, 2019 | Thrilled to begin my journey at IIT Madras, pursuing a Dual Degree in Biological Engineering! 🎓 |