About

Education

PhD, Engineering · 2022 – present Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

B.Tech, Mining Engineering · 2015 – 2019 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Junior College · 2013 – 2015 Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala

Experience

Software Engineer, ARC Document Solutions · Jul 2019 – Jul 2022

• Worked as a Node.js backend engineer.
• Responsible for creation, management and deployment of applications.

Teaching Assistant, CCE, IISc · Jan 2023 – May 2023

• Course: Introduction to Computing for AI & ML

Teaching Assistant, CCE, IISc · Aug 2023 – Dec 2023

• Course: Practical AI & MLOps

Projects

A fuller write-up lives on the projects page.

1. Particle deposition in human lung airways.
2. Semi-autonomous, gesture-controlled robot for finding a path in a maze.
3. Uncovering the nucleus of large networks.
4. Software to determine coal outsourcing price for e-reverse-auctioning.

Open source contributions

• neovim
• LoopBack 4
• void-packages
• stack (Haskell)
• Elasticsearch

Interests

• Research — reinforcement learning, explainable AI
• Software — Haskell, Emacs, XMonad, Nix

Contact

• Email — lokeshm@iisc.ac.in
• Address — IISc Bangalore, Karnataka, India 560012
• Languages — English, Hindi, Odia, Telugu

View the full CV (to be updated)