Keshav Bulia

Hi, I'm Keshav Bulia

Final Year Dual Degree Student at IIT Bombay

Passionate about Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI Applications in Materials Science and Healthcare. Seeking opportunities to pursue graduate studies in Computer Science.

8.0/10
CGPA
AIR 88
GATE Score
5+
Research Projects

About Me

I'm a final-year student pursuing a Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with a Minor in AI and Data Science at IIT Bombay.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning and real-world applications—from predicting patient outcomes in stroke survivors to accelerating materials discovery through computational methods. I've had the privilege of working with researchers at institutions like University of Waterloo, Purdue University, and Nanyang Technological University.

I'm passionate about building AI systems that make a tangible impact, whether it's improving healthcare diagnostics, automating complex web tasks, or understanding quantum properties of materials.

Education

Dual Degree, IIT Bombay

Materials Science + AI/DS Minor

Research Focus

ML, NLP, Computer Vision

Medical AI, Computational Materials

Achievements

JEE Adv. 99.28%ile

GATE AIR 88

Research Experience

Working at the intersection of AI and impactful applications

Autumn 2025 • Medical AI

Stroke Outcome Prediction

University of Waterloo, Canada

Guide: Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla & Dr. S. P. Gorthi

Developing a deep learning model to predict 3-month functional outcomes (mRS) in acute ischemic stroke survivors using MRI/CT scans.

  • Built preprocessing pipeline for 200+ patient scans with inconsistent formats
  • Improved U-Net segmentation accuracy from 80.8% to 86.5%
  • Doubled recall for poor outcomes (38% → 77%), identifying twice as many at-risk patients
Summer 2025 • AI Agents

Micro-Benchmarking of Web Agents

Purdue University, USA

Guide: Prof. Berkay Celik & Dr. Devin Esroy

Systematic evaluation of open-source web automation agents across frontend frameworks and LLM configurations.

  • Benchmarked 4 agents across 5 frameworks with 2 LLM backends (240 test runs)
  • Developed deterministic root cause analysis achieving 70% accuracy
  • Found BrowserUse performed best (68.3%), DOM parsing was primary failure mode
Autumn 2025 • Computational Materials

Rashba Parameter Prediction in 2D Materials

IIT Bombay • DDP Thesis

Guide: Prof. Amrita Bhattacharya

Applying ML to predict quantum mechanical properties in 2D materials, enabling faster material screening for spintronic applications.

  • Curated dataset of 200 2D materials via web scraping and NLP extraction
  • Engineered 58 physics-based features achieving R² = 0.71
  • Exploring ensemble and neural network approaches for improved accuracy
Summer 2025 • NLP

Cognitive Injection for LLMs

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Guide: Prof. Erik Cambria & Dr. Rui Mao

Investigating how cognitive injection strategies guide LLMs to emulate individual human writing styles.

  • Collected participant data: articles, personality tests, concept mappings
  • Combined cognitive features improved authorship accuracy by 20%
  • Evaluated using cosine similarity and statistical significance testing

Selected Projects

Course projects and independent work showcasing technical skills

Multilingual Text-to-Image Generation

IE 643 • Prof. P. Balamurugan

Extended Stable Diffusion to accept multilingual prompts using AdaLN projection network bridging M-CLIP and CLIP embedding spaces.

PyTorch Diffusion Models NLP

Knowledge-Enhanced VQA Models

EE 782 • Prof. Amit Sethi

Reproduced KRISP model with 78% fewer parameters (116M → 25M) achieving 75% relative accuracy on VQAV2 dataset.

Computer Vision Knowledge Graphs CLIP

Formal Verification of Distributed Protocol

CS 771 • Prof. Paritosh Pandya

Modeled and verified the 100 Prisoners Problem using NuSMV model checker with CTL/LTL specifications.

Model Checking Verification NuSMV

AI Room Guard Agent

Self Project

Voice-activated security system with facial recognition that monitors rooms and verbally confronts intruders with AI-generated dialogue.

Computer Vision DeepFace LLM

Professional Experience

Summer 2024

Global Fellow • AI Engineering Intern

Mili.ai

Received full-time return offer for exceptional performance

  • Built AI meeting agent transforming wealth advisor conversations into structured notes
  • Deployed across 20 financial firms managing $30B+ AUM
  • Reduced per-meeting costs by 42% through prompt optimization ($1.20 → $0.70)
LLM Speech-to-Text Prompt Engineering
Autumn 2025

Teaching Assistant

MM 225: Data Analysis and Interpretation • IIT Bombay

  • Mentored 145+ students in AI & Data Science fundamentals through 24 labs
  • Conducted tutorials on NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn
  • Formulated code-exam rubrics and evaluated programming assignments
May-Jul 2025

Mentor

Seasons of Code • Web and Coding Club, IIT Bombay

  • Mentored 6 students in Semantic Segmentation project
  • Implemented DeepLabV3+ with Transfer Learning on Cityscapes dataset

Technical Skills

Languages

Python C++ Java JavaScript MATLAB SQL LaTeX R

ML/DL Frameworks

PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Scikit-Learn HuggingFace OpenCV Spacy NLTK

Tools & Libraries

NumPy Pandas Matplotlib SciPy LangChain CrewAI Docker Git FastAPI

Coursework

Machine Learning Deep Learning NLP Computer Vision Distributed Optimization Verification

Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out for research collaborations, opportunities, or just to chat!