| Sep 2026 | Began the Master of Science in Technology and Design (AI) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. |
| Aug 2026 | Started as a Research Intern at A*STAR, working on AI security under Dr. Dinil Mon Divakaran at the Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing. |
| Aug 2026 | A good month for hackathons: First place for SettleFlow at the NTU InnovateX Hackathon, and Second place at the Daytona Hacksprint at NUS!  |
| Jun 2026 | Wrapped up my SDE internship at Apple and graduated from PES University with a B.Tech in Computer Science. Received an “Immense Contribution” Award for contributing to the CSE department at PES. |
| May 2026 | ReviewArena was accepted as a Spotlight paper at the ICML 2026 AI for Science workshop! |
| Mar 2026 | HyperCluster was accepted at DAIS 2026, following a poster at the ML4Wireless workshop at AAAI 2026! |
| Jan 2026 | Started as an SDE Intern at Apple, working on AI/ML systems for automated software issue triage. |
| Dec 2025 | M3DR was accepted at the AAAI 2026 workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval! The paper introduces NetraEmbed and ColNetraEmbed for multilingual visual document retrieval. |
| Oct 2025 | The full Nayana paper was accepted at the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Computer Vision for Developing Countries, following the poster at the CVPR 2025 Workshop on Vision Language Models for All. |
| Oct 2025 | Selected to host a Qiskit Fall Fest 2025 Extension Event at PES University — one of 150 universities chosen globally, and the second year running. |
| Jul 2025 | Our port of llama.cpp to z/OS was merged into the zopen community, bringing local LLM inference to IBM mainframes with a 92% pass rate on the core test suite. |
| Jul 2025 | manimator was featured in Hugging Face’s Spaces of the Week, with 5000+ videos generated in its first week! The paper is on arXiv. |
| May 2025 | Started a research internship at IIIT Bangalore under Prof. Viswanath G., on language-guided object manipulation in 3D indoor scenes. |
| Apr 2025 | Nayana won Meta’s Llama Impact Grant — one of ten recipients globally in 2025!!  |
| Mar 2025 | Nayana OCR was accepted at the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities at NAACL 2025. |
| Nov 2024 | Joined CognitiveLab as an AI Research Intern, starting work on the Nayana family of multilingual document vision-language models. |
| May 2024 | Interned at Sarvam AI over the summer, building the core pipeline for SarvamParse — turning unstructured PDFs into clean structured data for RAG. |