About

6 Papers
50+ Open-Source Projects
20 Certifications
9.72 CGPA (B.Tech)

Independent AI/ML researcher and builder: transformer architectures implemented from scratch, on-device deepfake detectors shipped to production.

  • Imperial College London: incoming MSc Computing (AI & ML), September 2026
  • IIIT Hyderabad: layout-preserving document translation with 92% layout detection accuracy and multi-language OCR
  • Papers: IEEE ICCCMLA 2025, plus Zenodo/IJNRD work on compression, deepfake detection, and word representation; 2 under review at IEEE NEPCON 2026
  • Focus: LLMs, computer vision, neural compression, synthetic data, and cloud deployment

AWS & TensorFlow certified. ML-from-scratch blog at blogs.gruheshkurra.com.

Education

MSc Computing (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)  Incoming

Imperial College London, United Kingdom  ·  September 2026 – September 2027

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

KL University, Hyderabad, India  ·  August 2021 – May 2025  ·  CGPA: 9.72 / 10

IELTS Academic  ·  Overall Band Score: 7.5  ·  C1 Advanced

Research Publications

Under Review & Working Papers

Experience

AI Integration Engineer

InfoAjax Consulting Pvt Ltd  ·  Remote, Hyderabad

  • Built an integration layer between enterprise apps and cybersecurity services over standardised APIs.
  • Used Azure OpenAI agents for automated schema mapping and connection setup from prior runs.
  • Built a React 18 + FastAPI + WebSocket app for live agent monitoring.
  • Wired Azure AD via Microsoft Graph API for app discovery and metadata.

Research Intern

IIIT Hyderabad  ·  Hyderabad, India

  • Led Layout Preserving Document Translation: Vision Transformer layout detection (92% accuracy), character-metrics font detection, K-means colour palette extraction (88% accuracy).
  • Built a FastAPI backend with Tesseract OCR for multi-language text extraction (English, Hindi, Telugu, German) while preserving document formatting.
  • Presented at the IIIT Hyderabad research expo (May 2025) with live demos to faculty and industry visitors.

WSO2 API Developer

InfoAjax Consulting Pvt Ltd  ·  Remote, Hyderabad

  • Built and shipped RESTful APIs for PLDT (Philippines' largest telecoms provider) ticketing integration in WSO2 Integration Studio.
  • Handled production secrets via GitLab vault and Choreo cloud hosting.
  • Debugged production issues with sparse WSO2 docs; worked directly with international clients under strict SLAs.

AI & ML Research Training

iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad  ·  Hyderabad

  • Six-month research apprenticeship: neural architecture design, LLM fundamentals, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, quantisation, and deployment.
  • Document analysis, OCR, and computer vision projects under faculty mentorship.

Founder & CEO

Zynthetix  ·  Hyderabad, India

  • Built a synthetic-data platform (GANs/VAEs) for privacy-preserving tabular, image, and text datasets.
  • Designed a meta-controller where a parent model coordinates 200–1000 specialised child models to generate millions of rows without duplication.
  • Prototype with transformer-based PII detection (98.5% accuracy) and 95% statistical similarity between synthetic and real data.

Data Science Intern

Xtraleap India Pvt Ltd  ·  Remote, Hyderabad

  • Exploratory data analysis, statistical modelling, and ML model development using Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib).
  • Feature engineering and model evaluation on real-world datasets in retail analytics and customer segmentation.

Selected Projects

DeepGuard project
DeepGuard On-device deepfake detection

EfficientNet-B1 trained on 25k images; 98.62% accuracy in 55 min on M4 MacBook. Converted to a 26MB Core ML model for real-time iOS inference in <500ms.

Accuracy98.62%
Model size26MB
Latency<500ms
Dual-Stream deepfake detection
Dual-Stream Deepfake Detection ViT · FFT · Cross-attention

Boundary and frequency streams under an orthogonality penalty, fused by iterative cross-attention. 96.3% AUC on a video-disjoint split over 227,504 frames.

AUC96.3%
Frames227k
Celeb-DF87.1%
MANCE morphology-aware embeddings
MANCE Morphology-aware embeddings

Words modelled as nested character sequences from n-grams up to the full word. +58.3 points on morphological-variant sentiment over Word2Vec. IEEE ICCCMLA 2025.

Morph. gain+58.3
DBpedia99.0%
AG News93.5%
Transformers From Scratch
Transformers From Scratch Encoder-decoder · GPT-2

Replicated Attention Is All You Need with BLEU benchmarks, then a GPT-2 (124M) from scratch with BPE and a full training loop.

Paper modelVaswani
GPT-2124M
TokeniserBPE
BIE Bit-Index Encoding
BIE: Bit-Index Encoding Neural weight compression

Neural weight compression at 40× with MSE < 10⁻⁶. Zenodo 2025 release with open-source sparse kernels and a benchmarking suite.

Compression40×
MSE<10⁻⁶
Year2025
Clinical Trial Similarity Analysis
Clinical Trial Similarity PubMedBERT · FAISS

PubMedBERT pipeline for trial matching. 99.5% accuracy on biomedical similarity with domain embeddings and FAISS retrieval.

Accuracy99.5%
EncoderPubMedBERT
IndexFAISS
GNN Suite
GNN Suite GCN · GraphSAGE · GAT

GCN, GraphSAGE, and GAT with 81.9% accuracy on node classification, plus a comparison framework and ablation studies.

Accuracy81.9%
Models3
TaskNode class.
GAN Implementation
GAN Implementation Vanilla GAN · DCGAN

GANs trained on MNIST with loss curves, generation metrics, and latent-space interpolation.

DatasetMNIST
Models2
StackPyTorch
Diffusion Model From Scratch
Diffusion From Scratch DDPM · UNet

DDPM from math to generated images: ~130K-parameter UNet, noise schedule, and sample generation.

Params~130K
TypeDDPM
NetUNet
NL2SQL
NL2SQL Transformers · SQL

Natural language to SQL with perplexity 1.42. Fine-tuned language model for structured queries from plain-English questions.

Perplexity1.42
TaskNL→SQL
StackHF
Hybrid RAG Deepfake Detection
Hybrid RAG Deepfake Detection RAG · CLIP · FAISS

Privacy-first deepfake detection: retrieval-augmented generation plus visual inconsistency analysis, with an uncertainty-aware classifier.

Year2024
MethodRAG+CLIP
StatusPublished
Layout Preserving Document Translation
Layout-Preserving Translation ViT · OCR · IIITH

Vision Transformer layout detection plus multi-language OCR (English, Hindi, Telugu, German), keeping fonts, colours, and structure.

Layout acc.92%
Languages4
LabIIITH

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript Swift Java C C++ R SQL PHP HTML CSS Shell

AI / ML Frameworks

PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face LangChain LlamaIndex scikit-learn PyTorch Geometric Gradio Streamlit UMAP

AI / ML Specialisations

LLM Optimisation SLM Fine-tuning RAG Prompt Engineering Transformers Attention Mechanisms GANs VAEs Diffusion Models GNNs On-Device AI Deepfake Detection Quantisation Pruning Distillation

Computer Vision

EfficientNet Vision Transformer MediaPipe OpenCV Tesseract CLIP Document Analysis OCR

iOS / Mobile

Swift SwiftUI Core ML iOS Development Vision Framework AVFoundation Core Data Metal MPS On-Device Inference

Web & Backend

React.js Next.js FastAPI Node.js Express.js TailwindCSS Vite React Native WebSocket REST APIs

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure OpenAI Azure AD Google Cloud Docker Vercel WSO2 CI/CD Git GitLab Serverless

Databases & Data Science

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Firebase Supabase Pandas NumPy Matplotlib FAISS Synthetic Data

Certifications

Awards & Honours

1st Place, Global Challenge Lab 2026
Imperial College London  ·  July 2026

Won Imperial's global innovation sprint: 1,000+ students, 14 days, four tracks. Built OrbitOps with a five-person team, a vendor-neutral reliability layer for satellite onboard AI (fault injection before launch, known-answer probes in orbit, rollback on silent degradation). £1,500 team prize; certificate in Certifications.

1st Place, University Webathon
KL University  ·  2022

Diet management platform in a 4-hour hackathon: personalised meal planning, calorie tracking, and nutritional recommendations. Competed against 50+ teams.

2nd Place, Design Expo
KL University  ·  2022–2023

Arduino smart switchboard for IoT home automation with real-time energy monitoring and mobile app control.

SAC Momentum Award
Student Activity Council, KL University  ·  2023–2025

Technical Lead: mentored 20+ juniors in web development and ML, ran workshops for 100+ students, coordinated 15+ technical events.

Collaborate

Open to research collaborations, consulting, and full-time roles in AI engineering and ML systems. Hyderabad or remote.

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