Experience
// industry and research, newest first
APR 2024 → NOW
Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Working on pretraining for the Falcon LLMs on multi-node GPU clusters.
- Writing custom Triton kernels for core transformer layers to speed up training.
- Working on Falcon-Audio, an audio-language model for speech, music and sound understanding, published at ASRU 2025.
PyTorchTritonDistributed trainingAudio-language models
Data Scientist II · Search
JUL 2022 → APR 2024
Bangalore, India
- Owned real-time ML systems for Swiggy's search, from modelling to production monitoring, measured on NDCG, CTR and search-to-order.
- Shipped a query intent classification and disambiguation model, a pairwise ranking model for dishes and restaurants, and a Siamese retrieval model.
- Recognised with the Most Valuable Player Award.
TensorFlow ServingLearning to rankEmbeddingsA/B testing
NOV 2020 → JUL 2022
Bangalore, India
- Built an NLU query-matching system that maps customer-support questions to FAQs.
- Implemented Non-negative Discriminative Feature Selection, a manifold-learning approach to unsupervised feature selection.
- Fine-tuned BERT and RoBERTa for document and user embeddings in personalised email marketing, at 165 million data points.
BERTRoBERTaNLUPySpark
Data Science Intern · Data and AI
JAN 2020 → JUL 2020
Bangalore, India
Built a pair-analysis micro-service for IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management that samples misclassified record pairs, shipped as Dockerised REST APIs.
MAY 2019 → JUL 2019
Singapore
Video captioning (ResNet-50, I3D) and weakly supervised step segmentation (NN-Viterbi) on instructional cooking videos, contributing to an IEEE TPAMI 2022 paper. Code →
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
MAY 2018 → JUL 2018
Winnipeg, Canada
Multilevel multiple imputation on longitudinal data, preserving within-group correlation for linear mixed-effects models. Code →
ASRU2025
Gokul Karthik Kumar, Rishabh Saraf, Ludovick Lepauloux, Abdul Muneer, Billel Mokeddem, Hakim Hacid
arXivIEEE ASRU · Dec 2025
TPAMI2022
Fadime Sener, Rishabh Saraf, Angela Yao
PATENT2023
PATENT2022
Skills
// from kernels to production serving
LLMs & training
PretrainingFine-tuningTritonLoRA / PEFTTRL
Audio & speech
Audio-language modelsSpeechWhisper
Frameworks
PyTorchTritonTransformersDatasetsAccelerateTensorFlowPySparkscikit-learn
Search & ranking
Intent classificationLearning to rankSiamese retrievalA/B testingElasticsearch
Serving & MLOps
TensorFlow ServingSeldonFastAPIFlaskDockerGrafana
Languages & platforms
PythonC++ScalaSQLRAWSGCPDatabricksRedisSnowflake
Open-source code
Honors
// awards, selections and ranks
- 2023Most Valuable Player AwardSwiggy
- 2018Mitacs Globalink Research InternshipSelected in the top 800 of 10,000 applicants from 10 countries
- 2017–19Academic Excellence Award, IIT DhanbadTop 2 in academics for three consecutive years
- 2015–20Merit-cum-Means ScholarshipAwarded to the top 25% of IIT students by the Government of India
- 2015JEE Advanced, All India Rank 5035Among 124,741 candidates
- 2015JEE Main, All India Rank 6585Among 1.3 million candidates
- 2015WBJEE, State Rank 224Among 105,000 candidates