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Hello community, As I enter the school after my “summer vacation,” I’m delighted to reflect on and share my journey with you all. About one year…
Hello community, As I enter the school after my “summer vacation,” I’m delighted to reflect on and share my journey with you all. About one year…
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I want to share a troubling experience with Air India Limited during my recent travel from AMD to SFO via DEL. Clearance in Ahmedabad: At the Air…
I want to share a troubling experience with Air India Limited during my recent travel from AMD to SFO via DEL. Clearance in Ahmedabad: At the Air…
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Super excited to share Cartesia Sonic, our first generative audio model trained from the ground up! Come check it out, it uses state space models…
Super excited to share Cartesia Sonic, our first generative audio model trained from the ground up! Come check it out, it uses state space models…
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Experience & Education
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Volunteer Experience
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Counsellor and Tutor
Ministry of Women & Child Development
- 4 years
Education
• Delivered STEM education to students at a Government Centre and several private schools
• Received Volunteer Award from the Child Empowerment Department, Government of India -
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Seasons of Code Mentor
Web and Coding Club, IIT Bombay
- 3 months
Science and Technology
Mentored a total of 24 students across three projects in Stock Trading via Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning using Kaggle and Competitive Programming where they acquired varied practical skills.
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Campus President
Global Governance Initiative
- 1 year 1 month
Education
Global Governance Initiative is transforming the 20th century higher education landscape through its innovative up-skilling bootcamps, mentorship programs, and field studies.
It was started in 2019 and currently has an alumni base of over 1000 delegates spread across 4 continents- with fellows and delegates working in global firms - such as - McKinsey and Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Company, Government of India, United Nations, World Bank, and many have also launched their own…Global Governance Initiative is transforming the 20th century higher education landscape through its innovative up-skilling bootcamps, mentorship programs, and field studies.
It was started in 2019 and currently has an alumni base of over 1000 delegates spread across 4 continents- with fellows and delegates working in global firms - such as - McKinsey and Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Company, Government of India, United Nations, World Bank, and many have also launched their own start ups. I collaborated with Founders to conduct upskilling bootcamps at IIT Bombay and also contributed to the development of an AI interview tool, Schrodinger.
Publications
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A Compressed Sensing Approach to Pooled RT-PCR Testing for COVID-19 Detection
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
We propose ‘Tapestry’, a single-round pooled testing method with application to COVID-19 testing using quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) that can result in shorter testing time and conservation of reagents and testing kits, at clinically acceptable false positive or false negative rates. Tapestry combines ideas from compressed sensing and combinatorial group testing to create a new kind of algorithm that is very effective in deconvoluting pooled tests. Unlike…
We propose ‘Tapestry’, a single-round pooled testing method with application to COVID-19 testing using quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) that can result in shorter testing time and conservation of reagents and testing kits, at clinically acceptable false positive or false negative rates. Tapestry combines ideas from compressed sensing and combinatorial group testing to create a new kind of algorithm that is very effective in deconvoluting pooled tests. Unlike Boolean group testing algorithms, the input is a quantitative readout from each test and the output is a list of viral loads for each sample relative to the pool with the highest viral load. For guaranteed recovery of k infected samples out of n≫k being tested, Tapestry needs only O(klogn) tests with high probability, using random binary pooling matrices. However, we propose deterministic binary pooling matrices based on combinatorial design ideas of Kirkman Triple Systems, which balance between good reconstruction properties and matrix sparsity for ease of pooling while requiring fewer tests in practice. This enables large savings using Tapestry at low prevalence rates while maintaining viability at prevalence rates as high as 9.5%. Empirically we find that single-round Tapestry pooling improves over two-round Dorfman pooling by almost a factor of 2 in the number of tests required. We evaluate Tapestry in simulations with synthetic data obtained using a novel noise model for RT-PCR, and validate it in wet lab experiments with oligomers in quantitative RT-PCR assays. Lastly, we describe use-case scenarios for deployment.
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Tapestry: A Single-Round Smart Pooling Technique for COVID-19 Testing
medrxiv
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained testing capabilities worldwide. There is an urgent need to find economical and scalable ways to test more people. We present Tapestry, a novel quantitative nonadaptive pooling scheme to test many samples using only a few tests. The underlying molecular diagnostic test is any real-time RT-PCR diagnostic panel approved for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In cases where most samples are negative for the virus, Tapestry accurately identifies the status of…
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained testing capabilities worldwide. There is an urgent need to find economical and scalable ways to test more people. We present Tapestry, a novel quantitative nonadaptive pooling scheme to test many samples using only a few tests. The underlying molecular diagnostic test is any real-time RT-PCR diagnostic panel approved for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In cases where most samples are negative for the virus, Tapestry accurately identifies the status of each individual sample with a single round of testing in fewer tests than simple two-round pooling. We also present a companion Android application BYOM Smart Testing which guides users through the pipetting steps required to perform the combinatorial pooling. The results of the pooled tests can be fed into the application to recover the status and estimated viral load for each individual sample.
NOTE: This protocol has been validated with in vitro experiments that used synthetic RNA and DNA fragments and additionally, its expected behavior has been confirmed using computer simulations. Validation with clinical samples is ongoing. We are looking for clinical collaborators with access to patient samples. Please contact the corresponding author if you wish to validate this protocol on clinical samples.Other authorsSee publication -
The Effect of Pretraining on Extractive Summarization for Scientific Documents
Scholarly Document Processing, NAACL, 2021
Large pretrained models have seen enormous success in extractive summarization tasks. In this work, we investigate the influence of pretraining on a BERT-based extractive summarization system for scientific documents. We derive significant performance improvements using an intermediate pretraining step that leverages existing summarization datasets and report state-of-the-art results on a recently released scientific summarization dataset, SciTLDR. We systematically analyze the intermediate…
Large pretrained models have seen enormous success in extractive summarization tasks. In this work, we investigate the influence of pretraining on a BERT-based extractive summarization system for scientific documents. We derive significant performance improvements using an intermediate pretraining step that leverages existing summarization datasets and report state-of-the-art results on a recently released scientific summarization dataset, SciTLDR. We systematically analyze the intermediate pretraining step by varying the size and domain of the pretraining corpus, changing the length of the input sequence in the target task and varying target tasks. We also investigate how intermediate pretraining interacts with contextualized word embeddings trained on different domains.
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Honors & Awards
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Narotam Sekhsaria Scholarship
NSF Foundation
A full interest free loan scholarship for demonstrating exceptional potential to excel in graduate studies.
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Bronze Medalist at Inter IIT Tech Meet'21
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Natural Language Processing Long Challenge
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ACM-ICPC Online Round
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Ranked 31st out of 4401 teams
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ACM-ICPC Regionals
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Ranked 14th out of 313 teams in ACM-ICPC Amritapuri Regionals; Ranked 49th out of 92 teams in ACM-ICPC Kanpur Regionals.
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Institute Academic Prize
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Received the Institute Academic Award (for top 10 students) for outstanding academic achievement
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Bronze Medal at Asian Physics Olympiad 2018
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Hanoi, Vietnam
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Classmate Spelling Bee National Finalist
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Qualified for top 16 out of 2,75,000 students in Classmate Spelling Bee; featured on Discovery Channel
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Gold Medal at International Junior Science Olympiad 2015
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Daegu, South Korea
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ASTAR India Youth Scholarship Award
Govt. of Singapore
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Honor Roll of Distinction
MAA
Designated with Honor Roll of Distinction (AMC 12) by Mathematical Association of America
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IIT JEE Advanced AIR'42
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Secured All India Rank 42 rank in JEE Advanced among 200 thousand candidates
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IIT JEE Mains AIR'19
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Secured All India Rank 19 rank in JEE Mains among 1.2 million candidates
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INFOSYS Award
INFOSYS Corporation
Endowed with The INFOSYS Award for Olympiad Medallists
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KVPY Fellowship
Govt. of India
Awarded the KVPY Fellowship (Placed 4th in India) by Govt. of India
Test Scores
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TOEFL
Score: 114/120
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GRE
Score: 332/340
V-162, Q-170, AWA-4.5
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ACT
Score: 36/36
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BITS Entrance
Score: 446/450
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SAT - Chemistry
Score: 800/800
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SAT - Math
Score: 800/800
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SAT - Physics
Score: 800/800
Languages
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Hindi
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Sanskrit
Elementary proficiency
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Super excited to invite everyone to the CMU Demo Day on May 1st. Dive into a day filled with potential as more than 50+ students, part of 10+…
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A paper titled "Bin Packing under Random-Order: Breaking the Barrier of 3/2" has been accepted for publication at the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete…
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