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asthanas/README.md

πŸ‘‹ Hi, I'm Saurabh Asthana

πŸŽ“ M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
πŸ”¬ AI Researcher (in transition) | LLMs | GenAI | MLOps | Multimodal | Responsible AI | ML System Optimization
☁️ 14+ Years of Experience in Cloud & DevOps | 🧠 Building AI Systems that Scale

β€œI don’t just build models. I build the systems β€” and the trust β€” that make AI research impactful.”


🧠 About Me

I’m an AI researcher in the making, blending Cloud & DevOps leadership (14+ years) with a deep curiosity for frontier AI research.

I specialize in:

  • πŸ€– Fine-tuning & optimizing LLMs and transformer-based architectures
  • 🧠 Exploring multimodal learning (language + vision)
  • ☁️ Architecting infrastructure for large-scale distributed training
  • πŸ§ͺ Building reproducible MLOps workflows for AI research
  • ⚑ Optimizing ML systems for performance, efficiency & scalability
  • βš–οΈ Integrating principles of Fair, Interpretable & Trustworthy ML

With a strong engineering backbone, I thrive at the intersection of AI research, system design, and responsible innovation.


πŸ§ͺ Research Interests

Domain 🧠 Focus Areas ✨
πŸ“š LLMs & GenAI Pre-training, fine-tuning, LoRA, RAG, evaluation, domain adaptation
πŸ–ΌοΈ Computer Vision Vision Transformers (ViTs), representation learning, multimodal fusion
⚑ ML System Optimization Distributed training, model efficiency, quantization, serving, cost & latency tuning
🧭 Responsible AI (FAccT) Fairness, interpretability, transparency, explainability, bias mitigation
πŸ§ͺ Research Infrastructure & MLOps Experiment tracking, scaling, reproducibility, containerized workflows

🧰 Core Skills & Tools

🧠 AI / ML / Data Science

Python PyTorch TensorFlow HuggingFace OpenCV Scikit-Learn SHAP AIF360

☁️ Cloud & MLOps

AWS GCP Kubernetes OpenShift Docker Terraform ArgoCD

πŸ§ͺ Research Workflow & Tooling

W&B MLflow Jupyter Git VSCode


πŸ§ͺ Selected Research & Engineering Projects

🧠 Project πŸ“ Description 🧰 Focus πŸ§ͺ Stack
llm-finetune-lora LoRA fine-tuning of LLMs for domain-specific tasks LLM, NLP, Optimization PyTorch Β· HuggingFace Β· LoRA
multimodal-ai-lab Exploring joint learning from text & image inputs Multimodal Learning Transformers Β· OpenCV Β· PyTorch
fair-ml-evaluation Building a pipeline to evaluate ML models for fairness & interpretability Responsible AI (FAccT) AIF360 Β· SHAP Β· Sklearn
mlops-for-research Reproducible experiment orchestration at scale MLOps MLFlow Β· K8s Β· GitHub Actions
ml-system-optimization Experiments with distributed training, quantization & inference acceleration ML System Optimization PyTorch Β· CUDA Β· AWS
distributed-training-infra Cloud infra setup for distributed AI training AI Infra Terraform Β· Kubernetes Β· AWS Batch

πŸ‘‰ (Flagship repos will be pinned as they mature β€” stay tuned.)


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πŸ† Career Snapshot

  • 🧭 14+ years designing scalable cloud & DevOps solutions for global enterprises.
  • 🧠 M.Tech in AI/ML with a research focus on LLMs, Multimodal AI, ML System Optimization, and Responsible AI.
  • πŸ€– Expertise in model training, fine-tuning, optimization, and deployment at scale.
  • ⚑ Specialized in distributed AI, system efficiency, and inference acceleration.
  • βš–οΈ Passionate about building fair, interpretable, and trustworthy ML systems.
  • πŸ§ͺ Believer in open research, reproducibility, and engineering rigor.

πŸ“š Current Research Directions

  • ✍️ Fine-tuning and adapting LLMs for specialized domains
  • πŸ–ΌοΈ Multimodal AI: bridging language and vision
  • ⚑ ML System Optimization: quantization, LoRA, distillation, serving, performance tuning
  • 🧭 MLOps for reproducible research
  • βš–οΈ Fair, Interpretable, and Trustworthy ML (FAccT)

🌟 Long-Term Vision

I aspire to grow as an AI Researcher who codes β€”
someone who contributes to scientific advances while building the infrastructure and optimizations that make those advances scalable, efficient, and trustworthy in the real world.


🀝 Connect with Me

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⭐ β€œGreat models are built twice β€” once in research, and once again in optimized, responsible systems.”

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