About
Hey, I am Pankaj
I’m a final year undergraduate at IIT Kanpur, graduating with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. I’ll be joining InMobi as an SDE-1 soon, where I’m excited to build scalable systems and work on challenging problems in ad-tech.
What I Do
I love building interesting systems and projects that solve real problems. My work spans across:
Systems & Distributed Computing
- Built privacy-preserving protocols for Tango-Sum and DORAM that achieved 35% performance improvements with 3.08x updates and 23.5x queries improvement for million-node segment trees
- Optimized secret-sharing algorithms for DPRAM accesses to enable faster queries on encrypted data
AI & Machine Learning
- Developed confidence calibration methods for Telugu Handwriting Recognition achieving 5.51% CER improvement using CRNN + BiLSTM + CTC architectures
- Built conversational AI interfaces with ASR, in-house LLMs, and TTS components using WebSockets for real-time communication
Full-Stack Development
- Architected and built a campus ride-sharing platform with React.js frontend and Express.js backend, enabling coordination for 500+ journeys with real-time chat using WebSockets
- Created a Flask app for HWR with character-level visualization supporting multi-language estimation and aggregation methods
- Built a Puppeteer automation to measure SSE streaming times across different chatbot providers
Academic Excellence
- Awarded Academic Excellence Award (three times) for being in the Top 10% at IIT Kanpur with a CGPA of 9.1/10
- Secured All India Rank 488 in JEE Mains 2022 among 1.1 million applicants
- Achieved a rank of 80 in TS EAMCET among 1.7 lac applicants
Research & Contributions
I’ve contributed to research in privacy-preserving algorithms, ML model confidence calibration, and distributed systems. My work has been recognized through:
- Full-term Intern at Kruti AI - contributed to pre-placement offer
- Research internships under Prof. Adithya Vadapalli and Prof. Sujaya Datta at IIT Kanpur
Beyond Code
When I’m not building systems or exploring new tech:
- I’m passionate about cooking vegetarian food and experimenting with new recipes
- I share my technical learnings through blogs and engineering videos
- I enjoy diving deep into databases, distributed systems, and algorithms
Let’s Connect
I’m always excited to discuss interesting technical problems, collaborate on projects, or just chat about systems, ML, or great vegetarian food!