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I am a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Labs, where I work on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, and Natural Language Processing. My work focuses on translating novel algorithms into enterprise-scale AI systems — spanning retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLM agent guardrails, foundation model virtualization, and model selection pipelines.

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras as an Intel India Ph.D. Fellow, advised by Balaraman Ravindran and Manikandan Narayanan. My thesis, Algorithms for Rich Graph Structures, received the Best Ph.D. Thesis award in Data Science at IIT Madras.

I have authored papers at venues including ICML, ACL, and AAAI, and have collaborated across teams. My earlier research contributed to hypergraph and multilayer network learning, with applications in network biology.

Feel free to explore my publications, research, and CV, and reach out if you would like to collaborate.