August 2026
Milestone
Successfully defended my MS (Research) thesis at IIT Kharagpur.
Timeline
May 2026
Service
Started working as a competition host for the Datathon @ IndoML 2026 — going from participant to organiser feels surreal.
January 2026
Career
Joined Walmart Global Tech as a Data Scientist III in Bangalore.
January 2026
Academic
Delivered my MS (Research) synopsis seminar.
December 2025
Award
Attended IndoML 2025 and presented my solution at the Datathon session — finished as the overall First Runner-Up.
November 2025
Award
Participated in the Datathon @ IndoML 2025 and placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd across different phases and tracks — as a solo participant.
November 2025
Career
Received a Pre-Placement Offer from Walmart for the Data Scientist III role.
October 2025
Publication
MPSelectTune was accepted at the Reliable ML from Unreliable Data Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. Grateful to my supervisor and co-authors.
June 2025
Career
Joined Walmart Global Tech as an R&D Intern.
February 2025
Career
Received an internship offer from Walmart.
July 2024
Academic
Coursework complete — full focus shifts to research.
March 2024
Publication
VTruST was accepted at the DMLR Workshop @ ICLR 2024. Thanks to my supervisors and co-authors.
December 2023
Event
Attended IndoML 2023 at IIT Bombay.
December 2023
Award
Selected for a poster presentation at Amazon Research Days.
July 2023
Academic
Formally joined the MS (Research) programme at the CSE Department, IIT Kharagpur.
June 2023
Career
Wrapped up my time at Chegg after solving 2,000+ questions and assignments as a Subject Matter Expert.
January 2023
Publication
My BTech thesis project was accepted at IEEE IITCEE 2023 — my first paper. Thank you to my supervisor and co-authors.
December 2022
Event
My first in-person conference — IndoML 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar, and my first trip with labmates.
July 2022
Academic
Joined IIT Kharagpur as a Research Intern at CNeRG Lab.
June 2022
Milestone
BTech ends with 3+ job offers and 5 Masters offers from IITs and NIT Karnataka.
October 2021
Career
Received my first full-time job offer.
March 2021
Academic
Cleared GATE in my third year of BTech.
September 2020
Milestone
First ₹10,000+ payment of my life.
August 2020
Career
Onboarded to Chegg as a Subject Matter Expert in Computer Science.
March 2020
Life
Covid arrived. Lockdown started. Earnings stopped 🙂
July 2018
Academic
Took admission to the BTech CSE programme at CEMK.
March 2018
Milestone
Earned my first money — ₹500 — from private tutoring.
May 2016
Award
My first academic achievement: a perfect 100 in Mathematics in the Madhyamik (10th Board) Exam. I have always loved numbers, but had never scored full marks in any subject until then.