Professional Experience

Postgraduate Researcher

The Open University

Oct 2023 - Present

Milton Keynes, England

  • Architecting scalable LLM-based agentic workflows integrated with Knowledge Graphs for the AI Digital Assistant project.
  • Designing advanced Prompt Engineering strategies (Chain-of-Thought, Zero-Shot) for automated knowledge extraction.
  • Implementing fine-tuning pipelines (LORA, Model Merging) using PyTorch and HuggingFace.
  • Curating high-quality training datasets from scientific taxonomies for cross-domain AI benchmarking.

Research Intern

The Open University

June 2022 - Nov 2022

Milton Keynes, England

  • Designed Python data pipelines to create a gold-standard dataset for engineering research classification.
  • Converted the IEEE Thesaurus to RDF using rdflib, enhancing data accessibility.

Research Intern

The Open University

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

Milton Keynes, England

  • Developed R-Classify, a production-ready application combining Knowledge Graph retrieval with NLP classification.
  • Integrated the Computer Science Ontology to enhance content discoverability.

Research Intern

Defence Research and Development Organisation

Aug 2021 - Sept 2021

Uttarakhand, India

  • Developed time-series analysis models using Fast Fourier Transform for spectroscopic data.
  • Designed a user-friendly software application using PySimpleGUI.

Co-Founder & CTO

COPAL 19

July 2020 - Sept 2020

New Delhi, India

  • Devised the COPAL 19 App in collaboration with AIIMS New Delhi to bridge plasma donors and patients during the pandemic.
  • Featured in Hindustan Times for social impact.
  • Solely managed the website, database, and server infrastructure.

Developer

Rancho Labs

Sept 2019 - June 2020

New Delhi, India

  • Designed websites using HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP; managed MySQL databases.
  • Recruited and trained a team of 5 web developer interns.
  • Organized a Hackathon with 100+ participants and 25 unique projects.