News

2020

July 2020 Received student grant award to attend USENIX Security '20.

July 2020 I got accepted to 2020's cohort of CIFAR Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Summer School hosted by CIFAR, Mila, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), and Vector Institute. I'm among the 300 applicants selected across the world.

June 2020 Our Project COVID Letters has been shortlisted amongst the top 15 submissions across India in a challenge conducted by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and UNICEF India.

March 2020 My friend and I launched a platform called COVID Letters where every one of us can write anonymous letters to spread positivity and help people combat anxiety and loneliness during the COVID19 pandemic.

2019

November: Our idea Empowerange will be getting mentored by Google India under Build For Digital India Program. Super excited for this journey!

October: Presented my poster at PyCon India 2019. Met Ines Montani, the co-founder of Explosion. David Beazley and Jake VanderPlas showed up at my poster :)

September: My poster on AI Bias has been accepted at PyCon India 2019. I'll be presenting it at Chennai Trade Centre on Oct. 12th.

March: Volunteered for WiDS Pune 2019 Conference, an extension of WiDS Conference at Stanford University.

February: Google Developer Group Pune launched Talk to GDG Pune , its official virtual assistant built by me.

January: started contributing to MakerGhat.

2018

December: our team got shortlisted for the Hackference hackathon in Bangalore and was one of the 50 teams shortlisted for the finale out of 1000+ teams. We built an Air Pollution Forecast app to help a bit to fight the problem of air pollution in India. It's open-source. Met and interacted with leaders from Google, GitHub, DigitalOcean, Mozilla, Skillenza and numerous others. Got hired as a Virtual Reality Visualization expert intern by a Virtual Reality based company GMETRI in Bangalore in the Hackference's hiring fest.

October: became a part of Actions on Google Assistant developers community. Launched my first action Talk to My Solar System

September: was in the team of GDG Pune DevFest 2018 which had over 900+ attendees.

August: contributed as a chat support volunteer for Kerala Flood Search and Rescue team during the Kerala floods , relocated, helped in rescuing and saving lives of around 2000 people in three days. You can check my blog on the same.

July: started working on Empowerange with an aim to help the society and the environment. Hope it works out :). Started learning Django and Bootstrap from scratch to build a website for the same.

May: started contributing to Frugal Testing as a software engineering intern.

April : joined Ignitus and started learning and contributing to projects in Data science, machine learning and natural language processing.

2017

December: did a project Typometer under IIT Kharagpur and Kharagpur open source society as a part of Kharagpur winter of code. My entry into open-source world.

August: started working as a core team member of TEDx Azadnagar, the first ever TEDx event in Thane

2016

June: started my bachelor's in computer engineering