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Curriculum vitae

PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence, HAIx Lab, IIT Gandhinagar. Research across multimodal interaction, assistive communication, gaze-driven input and biosignal interfaces.

Education

Jul 2024 – present

PhD · Artificial Intelligence

IIT Gandhinagar

Advised by Dr. Yogesh Kumar Meena. Multimodal interaction, assistive communication and confidence-aware intent inference. CGPA: 9.0 / 10.

2018 – 2022

BTech · Computer Science & Engineering

NIT Uttarakhand

CGPA: 8.24 / 10.

Research experience & fellowships

Jan 2025

UKRI-ISPF Visiting Student Research Fellow

Ulster University · Derry, UK

Research on a BCI-driven mental fatigue monitoring system for stroke rehabilitation therapy.

Jul 2024 – present

Teaching Assistant

IIT Gandhinagar

Course delivery, assignment design and evaluation for CS203 Software Tools and Techniques in AI (2026), CS435 Human–Computer Interaction (2025), CS432 Databases, and ES112 Computing (2024).

Jul 2018 – Jun 2022

Foundation for Excellence (FFE) Fellowship

NIT Uttarakhand

Fellowship support during BTech study.

Industry experience

May 2022 – Jul 2024

Quality Assurance Engineer

AlgoSec

Worked on AppViz across test planning, feature validation and production checks. Built and maintained Selenium and API testing pipelines, debugged test suites and collaborated across teams on quality and coverage.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

Research Associate · Computer Vision

Samsung R&D Institute India · Bangalore

Trained and evaluated autoencoders, GANs and transformer models on image datasets of 100K+ samples. Used GPU-accelerated Linux systems and TensorBoard for experiments.

Publications & patent application

System and Method of Multimodal Elevator Control

Yogesh Kumar Meena, Ramanand. Indian Patent Application No. 202521122791, 2025. Filed.

Skills

HCI & sensing

User-study design · Usability evaluation · Eye tracking · EMG/EEG processing · Speech interfaces

Machine learning & engineering

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Computer vision · Generative models · Python · C/C++ · Java · Git · TensorBoard

Presentations

1–4 Jun 2026

ETRA 2026 · Paper presentation

Marrakesh · Morocco

Presented the paper on gaze-semantic alignment and attention correction.

7–9 Nov 2025

IndiaHCI 2025 · Full-paper presentation

IIIT Delhi

Presented the multimodal elevator interface.

Workshops attended

  • Image Generative Models in Computer Vision · IIT Gandhinagar · Jan 2026
  • Microfabrication of Sensors & Transducers · IIT Gandhinagar · Dec 2025
  • ACM India Summer School on Quantum Circuits & Algorithms · JUIT Solan · Jun 2025
  • Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra · IIT Gandhinagar · May 2025
  • Ethical Conduct of Research with Humans (GCP, ICMR) · IIT Gandhinagar · Apr 2025
  • Scientific Writing Certification · IIT Gandhinagar · Jan 2025