Jun 2026 —
Present
Summer Research Intern
NIT Puducherry · IAS/INSA/NASI Fellowship · Karaikal
- Selected for the IAS/INSA/NASI Summer Research Fellowship, a national programme.
- Fine-tuned Wav2Vec2-large-XLSR-53 for dysarthric Tamil speech recognition, with VAD segmentation and speaker-independent splits via Resemblyzer.
- Built residual-correction models for SWAT+ hydrology simulations using CatBoost, XGBoost, LightGBM and LSTM/GRU.