SidEducation & research
A computer science degree spent mostly in hackathons, and the research that grew out of the things built there.
2017 — 2021
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
School of Computer Science and Engineering. Graduated with a CGPA of 8.74 across all 181 credits after deliberately trading grade optimisation for building things — the grades improved anyway. Most of the degree was spent in hackathons and in the research that became two of the papers below.
IEEE · 2025
A decision tree in which every leaf is a CNN-BLSTM time-series network, so each level sub-categorises the activity the way people group and regroup what they see. Supported by a VIT SEED Grant and NVIDIA's donation of the Titan Xp GPUs it trained on.
arXiv · 2023
A review of the techniques used to identify which script a document is written in, across multiple Indic scripts. With Rohan Gupta.
Three further papers are under review: a hardware encryption HUB for lightweight, secure IoT cloud storage; 3D hand-movement estimation from a spatial arm-tracking device; and TDRR, a CPU scheduling algorithm that predicts its own optimal time quantum.