Experience & Skills
Technical Skills & AI Stack
LLM & Generative AI Systems
Deep Learning & Computational Audition
Languages & Core Technologies
Cloud Platforms & MLOps
Professional & Industry Leadership
LLM Architecture Associate Director
Accenture — Center for Advanced AI
- Led architecture and development of Fortune Analytics — a generative AI business-intelligence platform built in partnership with Fortune Media analyzing 20+ years of Fortune 500 data.
- Recognized with the prestigious iF Design Award 2025 (User Interface) and filed European patent EP4660825A1 (LLM data visualization architecture).
- Spearheaded enterprise reasoning models and agentic architectures on Microsoft Foundry, presenting Accenture's reasoning-model framework at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
- Lead engineering teams delivering state-of-the-art agentic workflows, GraphRAG systems, and enterprise LLM integrations.
Deep Learning Scientist
ReviveMed
- Developed AI-driven drug discovery models for metabolic diseases.
- Leveraged tens of thousands of metabolomic data points to discover novel biological pathways and impactful therapeutics.
Verification Engineer & Project Lead
ARM — Systems & Software Group
- Designed and deployed in-house verification platforms to simultaneously verify 52 compute subsystems delivered to silicon partners globally.
- Served as Project Lead for the first successful chip-to-chip subsystem verification on ARM architecture.
- Consecutively rated amongst the top 5% engineers globally within ARM for two years.
- Recipient of the ARM Bravo Award in 2016 & 2017 for uncovering critical RTL bugs and accelerating delivery throughput by 2x.
Component Design Engineer (Intern)
ARM — Systems & Software Group
- Designed Low Power Interface protocols for AMBA 4 and ACE specifications across multi-cluster CPU arrangements.
Academic Research & Education
Ph.D. in Language Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University — School of Computer Science
Thesis: "Computational Audition with Imprecise Labels" (Advised by Prof. Bhiksha Raj & Prof. Rita Singh, CMU MLSP Group).
- Researched weakly-supervised sound event detection, learning from label noise, and multimodal video analysis.
- Published 60+ peer-reviewed papers across top venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICASSP, IJCAI, ACM ICMI, and IEEE/ACM TASLP.
- Recipient of CMU LTI Fellowship and Conference Travel Grants.
M.S. in Language Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University — School of Computer Science
- Advised by Prof. Alexander Hauptmann on Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (DIVA) and acoustic gunshot analysis for public safety.
- Developed end-to-end activity localization and acoustic weapon categorization pipelines.
B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal
- Awarded the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI 2017) at Rashtrapati Bhavan (top 39 of 2,915 entries nationwide).
- Recipient of two IEEE Student Enterprise Awards (Region 10) for Quadcopter and Wireless Sensor Network projects ($3,000 total funding).
- All India Rank 2151 in AIEEE 2011 and qualified IIT-JEE 2011 (Rank 6104).