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Experience, education, selected projects, awards, and technical background.

General Information

Full Name Samarth P
Email samarthprakash8@gmail.com
Location Bengaluru, India
Research Interests AI for science, quantum algorithms, scientific computing, language models

Experience

  • July 2026 - Present
    Research Engineer — Algorithms and Applications
    IBM Research, Bengaluru, India
    • Developing AI and quantum algorithms for scientific computing, with a current focus on solving partial differential equations.
  • January 2026 - June 2026
    Research Intern — Advanced Reasoning
    Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru, India
    • Built a framework for generating synthetic mock MCP servers and large-scale tool-calling datasets.
    • Worked on reinforcement-learning post-training of small language models for complex tool-use workflows.
    • Designed rubric-based reward systems for training and evaluating deep-research agents.
  • June 2025 - August 2025
    Quantum Research Intern — AI for Quantum
    IBM Research India, Bengaluru, India
    • Built a CLI coding agent to assist with translating Python components of Qiskit workflows into Rust.
    • Contributed agentic code generation and context-aware assistance to Qiskit developer tooling.
    • Developed retrieval-augmented assistants for quantum-computing workflows and support.
  • August 2024 - June 2025
    AI Research Intern
    CognitiveLab, Bengaluru, India
    • Developed a scalable synthetic-data framework for adapting vision-language models to multilingual documents across 22 languages.
    • Helped create the Nayana dataset with millions of document images for OCR, VQA, layout analysis, and retrieval.
    • Trained and released models and co-authored work at NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, and related workshops.
    • The project received a $100,000 Meta Llama Impact Grant.
  • June 2024 - August 2024
    Summer Research Intern
    IIIT Bangalore, Bengaluru, India
    • Developed Parichaya, a retrieval and multimodal question-answering interface for colloquial Kannada community knowledge.
    • Built the supporting application with Next.js and FastAPI under Prof. Srinath Srinivasa.

Education

  • 2022 - 2026
    B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
    PES University, EC Campus, Bengaluru, India
    • CGPA 8.5/10

Selected Projects

  • 2026
    ReviewArena
    • Built a cross-conference dataset of 51,529 papers and 196,099 reviews and a venue-aware benchmark for LLM peer review.
    • Accepted as a Spotlight at the ICML 2026 AI for Science workshop.
  • 2025 - 2026
    HyperCluster
    • Developed decentralized LLM inference across heterogeneous devices using peer-to-peer networking, automatic model sharding, and ring-based pipelining.
    • Published at DAIS 2026 and presented at the AAAI 2026 ML4Wireless workshop.
  • 2024 - 2025
    manimator
    • Built an open-source system that transforms research papers and mathematical concepts into Manim animations using LLMs.
    • Reached more than 15,000 uses in its launch week and was featured as a Hugging Face Space of the Week.
  • 2024 - 2025
    Nayana and SynthDoc
    • Built multilingual synthetic-document generation infrastructure for OCR, VQA, layout analysis, and retrieval across 22 languages.
    • Scaled dataset generation across 100 CPU and 10 GPU workers.
  • 2024
    KissanDial
    • Developed a voice-call AI assistant for farmers using LlamaIndex, Twilio, FastAPI, and Milvus.

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    • Spotlight paper and contributed talk, ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop — ReviewArena
  • 2025
    • Meta Llama Impact Grant ($100,000) — Nayana
  • 2024
    • AMD Kria KR260 FPGA — AMD Pervasive AI Hackathon, Robotics AI category

Technical Skills

  • Research
    • AI for science, quantum computing, reinforcement learning, LLMs, VLMs, RAG, computer vision
  • Languages
    • Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, SQL, Shell
  • ML and Scientific Computing
    • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, Qiskit, NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp
  • Systems and Applications
    • FastAPI, React, Next.js, Docker, Kafka, Spark, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Modal

Publications

  • ReviewArena: A Large-Scale Cross-Conference Dataset and Benchmark for LLM Peer Review — ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop, Spotlight
  • HyperCluster: Decentralized Large Language Model Inference over Peer-to-Peer Wireless Networks — DAIS 2026
  • EarthInfer: Agentic Reasoning with Dynamic Modality Generation for Earth Observation — WACV 2026 CV4EO Workshop
  • Benchmarking the Quantum Frontier: Evaluating QML Models on Core Learning Tasks — AIMLSystems 2025
  • The Gemma Sutras: Fine-Tuning Gemma 3 for Sanskrit Sandhi Splitting — EMNLP 2025 WiNLP
  • Nayana: A Foundation for Document-Centric Vision-Language Models — ICCV 2025 CV4DC Workshop; CVPR 2025 VLMs4All Workshop
  • Nayana OCR: A Scalable Framework for Document OCR in Low-Resource Languages — NAACL 2025 LM4UC Workshop
  • Manimator: Transforming Research Papers into Visual Explanations — ICML 2025 NewInML Workshop
  • Mudra-VLM: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Fine-Grained Bharatanatyam Mudra Recognition — ICCV 2025 CV4DC Workshop
  • Parichaya: Rural Colloquial Knowledge AI Interface — CODS-COMAD 2024