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Experience, education, selected projects, awards, and technical background.
General Information
| Full Name | Samarth P |
| samarthprakash8@gmail.com | |
| Location | Bengaluru, India |
| Research Interests | AI for science, quantum algorithms, scientific computing, language models |
Experience
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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2022 - 2026 B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
PES University, EC Campus, Bengaluru, India - CGPA 8.5/10
Selected Projects
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2024 KissanDial
- Developed a voice-call AI assistant for farmers using LlamaIndex, Twilio, FastAPI, and Milvus.
Honors and Awards
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2026 - Spotlight paper and contributed talk, ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop — ReviewArena
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2025 - Meta Llama Impact Grant ($100,000) — Nayana
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2024 - AMD Kria KR260 FPGA — AMD Pervasive AI Hackathon, Robotics AI category
Technical Skills
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Research
- AI for science, quantum computing, reinforcement learning, LLMs, VLMs, RAG, computer vision
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Languages
- Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, SQL, Shell
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ML and Scientific Computing
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, Qiskit, NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp
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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