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Silchar · Assam · India
WSDM 2025 · JATIT 2026

👋  Hey, I'm Akash Nath.

AI Engineer &
Researcher.

Currently building Medical AI Sanskrit LLM Edge Vision

I write research, ship products, and try to make deep learning work in places where people say it won't — on a $10 chip, in ancient scripts, inside an MRI scanner.

From  Silchar, Assam, India 🇮🇳 Published  WSDM 2025 · JATIT 2026 CodeChef  4-star · rank 5013

About

The story so far.

I grew up in Assam, Northeast India — a region where good internet arrives late and cutting-edge research arrives even later. That probably explains why I'm obsessed with building AI that works under constraints: on cheap hardware, in ancient languages, with limited data.

I started coding seriously at 17, I graduated from Assam University in year 2025, I have presented a research paper as first-author and deployed an AI model on an ESP-32 microcontroller costing less than a textbook. That project — an AI that classifies fire severity in real-time — was presented as an oral and e-poster at the World Summit on Disaster Management, 2025. It was my proof that serious research doesn't need a lab in a rich city.

Right now I'm building a brain-tumor MRI classifier that tells doctors when it's unsure. Most AI systems optimise for looking confident. I think a system that says "I don't know, please double-check this one" is far more valuable in medicine — so that's what I built. It's under review at IEEE CVMI 2026.

I'm also training a GPT-2 for Sanskrit — because one of the world's oldest written languages deserves a language model, and nobody else in my corner of the world was doing it. When I'm not doing research, I'm shipping products, competing on CodeChef (4-star), and applying for M.Tech AI/ML programs.

Who
Akash Nath
AI engineer & researcher, Assam India
Education
B.Tech CSE
Assam University, Silchar · 2021–2025 · CGPA 7.02
Competitive programming
CodeChef 4★
Global rank 5013 · Country rank 3962
Currently building
AI Systems
Computer vision · Medical AI · Sanskrit NLP
ORCID
0009-0005-9602-7690
LinkedIn
@akashnathai

Now

What I'm building right now.

Under Review
85% done

An MRI classifier that knows when it doesn't know.

Most AI just gives you an answer. MEDIAX gives you an answer plus a confidence score — and when it's not sure about a glioma, it says so. That's the feature. Submitted to IEEE CVMI 2026.

PyTorchMedical AIUncertainty
In Progress
70% done

Teaching GPT-2 to read Sanskrit.

Sanskrit is one of humanity's oldest knowledge systems and it has almost no AI tooling. I trained a 97.7M-parameter language model on the AI4Bharat Sangraha corpus with a custom Devanagari BPE tokeniser. Evaluation ongoing.

NLPTransformersLow-resource
Accepted ✓
100%

Attention + ensemble ML paper · JATIT 2026.

Co-authored work on using attention-enhanced bottleneck convolution features fed into a stacked ensemble of classical ML classifiers. Accepted in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, April 2026.

Deep LearningCo-authorPublished
On going
Ongoing

Advance research on computer vision capabilities.

Exploring advanced computer vision systems focused on real-world reliability, medical imaging, and edge AI deployment. Currently expanding research in deep learning, uncertainty-aware vision models, and efficient AI architectures for next-generation applications in healthcare and disaster response.

Computer VisionDeep LearningResearch

Published work

Stuff I've published.

  1. [01]
    IEEE CVMI 2026 · Under Review · Medical Imaging

    An MRI brain-tumor classifier that tells you when it's not sure — and why that matters.

    Akash Nath

    EfficientNet-B3 with multi-scale feature fusion and Monte Carlo Dropout. Hits 93.75% accuracy and AUC 0.983. The real contribution: a clinical triage layer that drops glioma miss-rate from 22% to 2.8% by trading some recall for safety. Built for clinicians, not benchmarks.

  2. [02]
    JATIT · Accepted Apr 2026 · ISSN 1992-8645

    Attention-Added Bottleneck Convolution Features with Ensemble ML for Classification.

    Arnab Paul, Akash Nath, et al.

    Combines an attention-augmented bottleneck CNN as a feature extractor with a stacked ensemble of classical classifiers. More robust on constrained feature regimes than a single deep model. Paper ID 63530-JATIT.

  3. [03]
    WSDM 2025 · First-Author Oral & e-Poster · Dehradun, India

    Real-time fire-severity AI running on a $10 chip — for disaster management.

    Akash Nath et al.

    A hybrid EfficientNetB3 + BiLSTM that classifies six fire-severity levels from a live camera stream in under 500ms — deployed on ESP-32 hardware. 94.39% accuracy on the MIVIA dataset. Presented as first-author oral and e-poster at the World Summit on Disaster Management, Graphic Era University, 2025.

    Nov 2025
    Demo ↗
  4. [04]
    Research in progress · Low-resource NLP · Indian Knowledge Systems

    A GPT-2-scale language model for Sanskrit with a custom Devanagari tokeniser.

    Akash Nath

    97.7M parameters, trained on the AI4Bharat Sangraha corpus. Custom 16K Devanagari BPE tokeniser. Evaluation across perplexity, type-token ratio, and script purity. Composite eval score 7.55/10 at checkpoint 83,000. Draft paper targeting ACL/EMNLP/LREC-COLING.

Selected builds

Things I've shipped.

FireSense Live demo ↗

Fire AI on a $10 chip — in real time.

EfficientNetB3 + BiLSTM hybrid that classifies six fire severity levels from an ESP-32 CAM stream in under 500ms. Uses a Gemini-assisted + human-expert labelling pipeline on the MIVIA dataset. First-author at WSDM 2025 in Dehradun. This is the one that got me into research.

TensorFlow · Keras · EfficientNetB3 · BiLSTM · OpenCV · ESP-32 CAM
See live demo
Sanskrit LLM Research

GPT-2 for one of the world's oldest languages.

97.7M-parameter transformer trained on the AI4Bharat Sangraha corpus with a custom 16,000-token Devanagari BPE tokeniser. Trained iteratively across RTX 2060, T4, and A100 environments with a tuned bf16 + AdamW + NVMe-cached pipeline. One of the few Sanskrit LLMs built from first principles.

PyTorch · HuggingFace Transformers · Custom BPE · Colab A100
Read the methodology
MEDIAX Under review

A brain-tumor MRI classifier with honest uncertainty.

Built from scratch in PyTorch — multi-scale EfficientNet-B3 fusion, MC-Dropout, temperature scaling, two-phase training. The clinical triage layer is the real innovation: it cuts glioma miss-rate from 22% to 2.8% by refusing to make a confident call when the model is genuinely unsure. Submitted to IEEE CVMI 2026.

PyTorch · Colab T4 · MC Dropout · ECE calibration · AdamW
Request preprint
VINO AI Product

Full-stack AI SaaS — with real payments and credits.

Image restoration, recolouring, and semantic search in one platform. Clerk for auth, Stripe for subscriptions, MongoDB for persistence, and a credit-based metering system that makes inference cost predictable. This is what "shipping" actually looks like — not just a Colab notebook.

Next.js · TypeScript · MongoDB · Clerk · Stripe · Cloudinary
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Where I've been

Experience & education.

May – Oct 2024

Software Engineer Intern

NIT Silchar · National Institute of Technology
  • Built DevOps tooling that automated deployment pipelines for lab services — cut manual steps significantly.
  • Wired real-time IoT telemetry into a live dashboard using MongoDB, JavaScript, and Socket.IO.
  • Migrated workloads to AWS EC2 and EKS; applied AWS Well-Architected principles across security, cost, and performance.
Jan – Mar 2024

AI & Cloud Intern

Edunet Foundation · AICTE
  • Four-week intensive on emerging AI and cloud technologies, sponsored by AICTE India.
  • Shipped AI-powered applications on IBM Cloud using IBM SkillsBuild and IBM WatsonX Studio.
  • Earned Microsoft Azure AI Document Intelligence and Azure AI Vision certifications.
2021 – 2025

B.Tech · Computer Science & Engineering

Assam University, Silchar · CGPA 7.02 · 158 / 160 credits
  • Core CS: algorithms, DBMS, OS, networks, compiler design, ML fundamentals.
  • Self-directed research in computer vision and disaster management AI — led to the WSDM 2025 paper by final year.
  • LaTeX-native writing; reproducibility-first coding standard across all projects.

Tools

My toolkit.

01 Languages

95 / 100
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Bash
  • PHP

02 ML · DL

92 / 100
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • HuggingFace
  • Scikit-learn
  • OpenCV

03 Data

85 / 100
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • W&B

04 Web

78 / 100
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Socket.IO
  • Tailwind

05 Cloud & DevOps

74 / 100
  • AWS EC2 / EKS
  • Azure
  • IBM WatsonX
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker

06 Hardware

68 / 100
  • ESP-32 CAM
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino
  • IoT sensors

Highlights

Projects, research & things I've built.

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AI & full-stack projects developed
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FireSense model accuracy
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Parameters trained for Sanskrit GPT model
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Certifications in AI, cloud & research
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Computer vision · NLP · Medical imaging

FAQs

Frequently asked.

Get in touch

Let's talk.

Whether it's research, an M.Tech opening, a consulting chat, or just wanting to nerd out about AI — my inbox is open.

I'm based in Assam, India. I reply to emails. I'm also active on LinkedIn and GitHub — the links are all right here. If you're a researcher, recruiter, or founder building something in AI, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.

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