Selected Work

Projects

Research prototypes and applied systems across safety, vision, language and optimization.

🧩Generative · CVPR 2026

Pixels to Layers

An architecture that turns generated infographics into editable, layered assets. Oral at the AI4CC Workshop, CVPR 2026 (non-archival) and accepted to CVPR 2026 Demos.

DiffusionMultimodalEditable Assets
🧱Multimodal · MSR

LEGO

Learned Editable Graphic Outputs — an expert-guided orchestration framework for adaptive infographic decomposition into editable graphic outputs.

DecompositionOrchestrationVision
🛡️LLM Safety

MITRA

A model-in-the-rear guardrail framework for safeguarding LLMs at low cost and scale. Won 1st place (solo) at the CNS Hackathon.

GuardrailsLLMPython
🩺Medical Imaging · MIUA 2026

CAMMEL-ViT Net

Context-aware memory modules with efficient lightweight vision transformers for image segmentation. Oral Accept at MIUA 2026 (to appear); 2nd prize, ACM Hackathon.

ViTSegmentationHealthcare
📊NLP · LLM Analysis

LMSYS Topic Modelling

Large-scale BERTopic analysis of the LMSYS-Chat-1M dataset to understand human preferences across competing LLMs.

BERTopicLMSYSPreprint
🐄Applied CV

Lumpy Skin Disease Detection

A YOLOv8 detector for cattle disease reaching 96% accuracy, with an oriented-bounding-box pipeline for industrial grain quality analysis.

YOLOv8DetectionRoboflow
🗣️NLP · Govt.

Kannada Transliteration

Fine-tuned Google mT5 for English→Kannada transliteration (74% accuracy) for a Karnataka Government documentation project.

mT5TransformersTransliteration
🛰️Perception · ISRO

LiDAR Autonomous Docking

Point-cloud analysis and computer-vision for spatial mapping in an autonomous spacecraft-docking project at ISRO LEOS.

LiDARPoint CloudReal-time
⚙️ML Systems

Helios Optimizer

A co-designed, landscape-aware optimization system bridging serial intelligence and GPU parallelism (EvoApplications 2026).

OptimizationGPUCUDA
🔀Scheduling

CROSS-Sched

A crossover-aware ML scheduler benchmarked across heterogeneous compute, balancing throughput and fairness.

SchedulerHeterogeneousBenchmarks
Patents
📜

Microsoft Research — Patent (in process of grant)

Inventors: A. Bhandarkar, V. N. Balasubramanian, Gongjie Qi, Bala Kumaravel

A patent arising from research at Microsoft Research, currently in the process of grant.

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JAM Algorithm for Probabilistic String Search

Application No. 202541017132 A

A novel algorithm for efficient probabilistic string search with applications in data retrieval.

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SIMHA: Sustainable Integrated Microbial & Hydrogen Fuel Cell Architecture

Application No. 202541017133 A

A sustainable energy solution integrating microbial and hydrogen fuel-cell technologies.