Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Saurabh Kumar
Raised in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Languages Hindi, English, Angika
Email saurabh1003@iitg.ac.in
Website iitg.ac.in/stud/saurabh1003
LinkedIn skumar-iitg

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (2022-now)
  • National Institute of Technology Patna, MTech in Computer Science and Engineering (2019-2021)
  • Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna, BTech in Computer Science Engineering (2014-2018)

Research Interest

  • Sentiment Analysis, Indian Languages, LLMs, NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Learning

Publication

Projects

  • M.Tech dissertation report on "Edge-centric application module placement in fog-cloud paradigm"
  • B.Tech final year project on "Hand-written character recognition"

Technical Skills

  • Programming : Python, C/C++, Java
  • Machine Learning : Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, sci-kit-learn
  • (Large)Language Models: Transformers(BERT, T5, GPT, LLaMA, Mistral), Prompt Engineering, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), Quantized LoRA, Knowledge Distillation

Key Courses Taken

  • Mathematics : Mathematics for Computer Science, Linear Algebra, Basic Calculus
  • Machine Learning : Machine Learning, Neural Network for NLP

Positions of Responsibility

  • TA: Social Media Tools and Techniques (DA208), BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati (Jan. - June 2025)
  • TA: Introduction To Computing Prerequisites (CS101), IIT Guwahati (Jan. - May 2025)
  • Lead Volunteer (Technical): IEEE ANTS 2024 Conference (15-18 Dec 2024)
  • Head TA: Topics and Tools in Social Media Data Mining (CS529), IIT Guwahati (July - Nov. 2024)
  • TA: Data Structures (DA110), BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati (May - Aug. 2024)
  • Head TA: Computing Laboratory (CS110), IIT Guwahati (Jan. - June 2024)
  • TA : Data Structures and Database Lab (CS 593), IIT Guwahati (July - Nov. 2023)
  • Class Representative, M.Tech(CN class), NIT Patna (2019 - 2021)

Academic Achievements

  • Received M.Tech scholarship from MHRD, Government of India (Aug. 2019 - May 2021)
  • Qualified GATE in 2018 & 2019
  • Received Post Metric Scholarship during B.Tech academic year by Govt. of Bihar (2014-2018)