🔎 Researcher working in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Conversational AI

🎓 PhD in Computer Science — RMIT University (2025)
🎓 Master’s in Information Technology — Monash University (2019)
🎓 Bachelor’s in Computer Science — Amrita University (2015)

💻 Industry Experience: Data Scientist (IR, NLP, GenAI) · Software Engineer

📚 Areas of Interest: Evaluation of Information Access Systems · Knowledge-Augmented Conversational AI · Responsible AI

🧩 Engineering Philosophy: I see software engineering as the cornerstone of impactful research - applying object-oriented design, Pydantic data models, CLI tools, and API endpoints, with packaging and containerization to ensure scalability, maintainability, and reproducibility.

</> Languages: Python (preferred) · SQL · C++
🤖 AI/ML: PyTorch · TensorFlow · HuggingFace · LangChain · Langflow
🔍 Search/IR: Sparse Retrieval · Dense Retrieval · Ranking Algorithms · Vector Databases · RAG systems
⚙️ Engineering: FastAPI · PySpark · PostgreSQL · Docker
☁️ Cloud/Infra: AWS (EC2 · S3 · Lambda · SageMaker · Bedrock · Kendra · Polly · ECR · App Runner)
📊 Data/Workflow: LangGraph · Airflow · Prefect · n8n

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