Academic Service

  • Mentor: AAAI Undergraduate Consortium 2026 (Scholar 2023 → Mentor 2026)

Conference Reviewing & Program Committee

  • Main Conference Reviewer: AAAI 2027 (Program Committee), NeurIPS 2026, ACM AIES 2026, CVPR (2025-26), ECCV (2024-26), ICCV (2025), WACV (2026-27), BMVC 2026, IJCNN (2025)
  • Workshop & Track Reviewer (2026):
    • Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop (ICML 2026)
    • AI for Good Workshop (ICML 2026)
    • TAIGR Workshop (ICML 2026)
    • Foundation Models for Structured Data (FMSD) Workshop (ICML 2026)
    • FinDS Workshop @ ACM SIGMOD 2026
    • Advances in Financial AI Workshop (ICLR 2026)
    • BlackboxNLP Workshop (EMNLP 2026)
    • NLP4PI Workshop (EMNLP 2026)
    • System Demonstrations Track (EMNLP 2026)
    • Actionable Interpretability Workshop (COLM 2026)
    • FAIMI-BRIDGE-EPIMI Workshop (MICCAI 2026)
  • Workshop Reviewer (2021–25):
    • Actionable Interpretability Workshop (ICML 2025)
    • RegML Workshop (NeurIPS 2025)
    • NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (EMNLP 2024)
    • Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty Workshop (NeurIPS 2024)
    • Frontiers in Probabilistic Inference (ICLR 2025)
    • SyntheticData4ML Workshop (NeurIPS 2022-23)
    • FAIMI Workshop (MICCAI 2024)
    • Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer Workshop (MICCAI 2023)
    • Topological, Algebraic, and Geometric P.R.A. Workshop (CVPR 2023)

Technical Skills

Interpretability

Mechanistic interpretability circuit analysis & attribution TransformerLens Captum SHAP LIME Integrated Gradients LRP DL-Backtrace

Post-Training & Alignment

RLHF DPO Constitutional AI PEFT (LoRA, QLoRA, DoRA) TRL (SFTTrainer, DPOTrainer) Axolotl Unsloth LlamaFactory HF Accelerate

LLM Systems & Efficiency

Flash Attention 2 MoE architectures quantization (bitsandbytes, AutoGPTQ) pruning ONNX TensorRT lm-evaluation-harness

Deep Learning Systems

CUDA programming Triton kernels distributed training (DeepSpeed, FSDP) mixed precision GPUs: H200 / H100 / RTX 6000 Pro (multi-GPU)

Tabular & Classical ML

XGBoost LightGBM CatBoost TabPFN Optuna Ray Tune

AI & Coding Agents

LangChain LangGraph Claude Code Codex Cursor Windsurf

MLOps, Serving & Infra

Weights & Biases MLflow Ray Docker Slurm Git Linux HPC HF Hub/Datasets FAISS AWS/GCP vLLM FastAPI Flask Gradio Streamlit Ollama

Languages & Core Libraries

Python C++ SQL Java C LaTeX PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Scikit-Learn NumPy Pandas Seaborn Matplotlib OpenCV PIL Geopandas Shapely NLTK SpaCy

Certifications

  • Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.ai
  • 6th Summer School on AI - CVIT IIITH

Collaborators & Mentees

Full list of managers, mentors, mentees, and collaborators by institution

Numbers in parentheses indicate co-authored works together.

Managers

  • Vinay Kumar Sankarapu (27) — Lexsi Labs / AryaXAI Alignment Labs
  • Chintan Chitroda (4) — AryaXAI Alignment Labs

Mentors

  • Ujjwal Verma (2) — MIT MAHE
  • David Rolnick (1) — Mila / McGill
  • Abhilash K Pai (1) — MIT MAHE

Mentees

Lexsi Labs

  • Aditya Kasliwal (10)
  • Aditya Tanna (8)
  • Utsav Avaiya (3)
  • Soham Bhattacharjee (3)
  • Saisab Sadhu (3)
  • Chirag Chawla (2)
  • Aadit Sengupta (2)
  • Karun Sharma (2)
  • Hem Gosalia (2)
  • R E Zera Marveen Lyngkhoi (1)
  • Anshul Kaushal (1)
  • Nikita Malik (1)
  • Ananth Eswar (1)
  • Omkar Kakade (1)
  • Mitul Solanki (1)

Collaborators

Lexsi Labs

  • Aditya Kasliwal (10)
  • Aditya Tanna (8)
  • Utsav Avaiya (3)
  • Soham Bhattacharjee (3)
  • Saisab Sadhu (3)
  • Chirag Chawla (2)
  • Aadit Sengupta (2)
  • Karun Sharma (2)
  • Hem Gosalia (2)
  • R E Zera Marveen Lyngkhoi (1)
  • Anshul Kaushal (1)
  • Nikita Malik (1)
  • Ananth Eswar (1)
  • Omkar Kakade (1)
  • Mitul Solanki (1)

Lexsi Labs — Paris

  • Mohamed Bouadi (8)
  • Nassim Bouarour (4)
  • Mykola Khandoga (1)
  • Rui Yuan (1)
  • Yash Jignesh Desai (1)

AryaXAI Alignment Labs

  • Neeraj Kumar Singh (4)
  • Yashwardhan Rathore (2)

Mars Rover Manipal

  • Akshat Bhandari (4)
  • Sriya Rallabandi (4)
  • Sanchit Singhal (3)
  • Adil Khan (2)
  • Kumud Lakara (2)
  • Aryan Kamani (2)
  • Ishaan Gakhar (2)
  • Sankarshanaa Sagaram (1)
  • Laven Srivastava (1)
  • Ananya Gupta (1)
  • Saurabh Kumar Mishra (1)
  • Krish Didwania (1)

McGill University

  • Michelle Lin (1)
  • Brefo Dwamena Yaw (1)
  • Jade Boutot (1)
  • Mary Kang (1)

Research Society Manipal

  • Dyutit Mohanty (1)
  • Bharath Udapa (1)
  • Mihir Agarwal (1)
  • Rashi Goel (1)
  • Komal Mathur (1)
  • Swetha Vemulapalli (1)
  • Hemang Malik (1)
  • Gaurav Pradeep (1)

MIT Manipal / IISc Bangalore

  • Siddhant Bharadwaj (1)
  • Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (1)

Manipal University Jaipur

  • Danush Khanna (1)
  • Aditya Kumar Guru (1)
  • Siddharth Shukla (1)
  • Tanuj Tyagi (1)
  • Sandeep Chaurasia (1)
  • Kripabandhu Ghosh (1)

NIT Surathkal

  • Sidhaarth Sredharan Murali (1)

Wells Fargo AI COE

  • Amit Agarwal (1)