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Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

B.E. in Information Technology

Jadavpur University

Graduate Research Assistant

Pennsylvania State University

• Gradient-free parameter prediction to accelerate VQA optimization.
• Indiscriminate data poisoning attack on quantum neural networks.
• Framework to protect QNNs deployed on untrusted cloud platforms.
• Model stealing attacks on QNNs with hardware-variation-based defense.
• Knowledge distillation with approximate synthesis to compress QNNs.
• ML-based framework to reverse-engineer quantum compiler passes.

Data Science & AI Engineering Intern

Stridekick

• Founding ML hire; built all personalization infrastructure from scratch.
• Multi-signal scorer classifying users into engagement profiles.
• Two-pass LLM pipeline to tag product SKUs across multiple dimensions.
• Greedy diversification and jitter to improve recommendation diversity.

Research Scholar

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)

• Evaluated NbAs cache interconnects in gem5 for delay and resistivity.
• Benchmarked IPC and execution time on an x86 OoO processor.

Research Intern

IIT Kharagpur

• Docker-containerized AES-128 encryption client-server framework.
• Flush+Reload side-channel attack exposing key extraction in containers.

Undergraduate Researcher

Jadavpur University

• Language identification (LID) system for Indian languages.
• CNN-based facial expression recognition framework.