Aditya Kumar Guru

RESEARCHER · NLP · APPLIED AI/ML

Applied AI and NLP researcher working across NLP, deep learning and RAG. Turning research on LLM robustness and inference efficiency into things that actually ship.

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Publications

ACL, EACL, AAAI Bridge, LREC, NAACL

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Research Areas

NLP, LLMs, RAG, RL, Robustness, Efficiency

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Building

Datasets, Benchmarks, Models, Tools

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Impact

From research ideas to real-world applications

Research focus

Work spans model interpretability and inference efficiency, including the development of an optimization library and benchmarking inference frameworks and libraries to identify critical performance trade-offs.

Research contributions include LLM robustness under logical and semantic obfuscation, PPO-based legal reasoning, and runtime-only LLM inference acceleration through token halting, KV skipping, contextual token fusion, and adaptive quantization.

Timeline

Apr 2026 - Jun 2026

Research internship

SuperKalam (YC-23)

AI Research Intern — MCQs Generation & Content Automation

Aug 2025 - Oct 2025

Research internship

AryaXAI (Lexsi Labs)

AI Research Intern — Interpretability & Inference Optimization

Dec 2024 - Jun 2025

Research internship

Artificial Intelligence Institute of South Carolina (UofSC)

Research Intern — QuickSilver Inference Framework

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025

Research internship

IISER Kolkata

Research Intern — Logifus, ObfusQAte & SELF-PERCEPT

May 2024 - Sept 2024

Research internship

IIT Kanpur

Summer Research Intern — ReGal PPO Legal Reasoning System

Publications

Work experience

SK

SuperKalam (YC-23)

AI Research Intern

  • Project 1: MCQs Generation Pipeline
  • Developed a UPSC question generation and quality check pipeline and library using Vertex AI and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine.
  • Project 2: Question extraction & Content Automation
  • Built a library for automated question extraction, solution generation and developed a social media post & video creation dashboard using remotion, Gemini and Nano Banana models to streamline educational content and publishing workflows.

Apr 2026 - Jun 2026

AX

AryaXAI (Lexsi Labs)

AI Research Intern

Project 1

  • Investigated methods to improve model interpretability and inference efficiency, contributing to the development of an optimization library.
  • Benchmarked multiple inference frameworks and libraries to identify critical performance trade-offs, guiding optimization strategies.
  • Worked on optimizing inference speed and memory utilization to minimize computational overhead, while assessing scalability across diverse models and datasets.

Aug 2025 - Oct 2025

US

Artificial Intelligence Institute of South Carolina(UofSC), South Carolina

Research Intern

Project 1: QuickSilver (Under Review)

  • Created QuickSilver; implemented multiple FLOP reduction open source libraries, developed layer-wise evaluation pipelines, and implemented token halting and token merging strategies to improve inference efficiency and save computations.

Dec 2024 - Jun 2025

IS

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Kolkata

Research Intern

  • Project 3: EACL 2026
  • Worked on Logifus; created LogiQAte datasets for Number Series and Direction Sense reasoning, ran SOTA models evaluations, performed mechanistic interpretability using layer-wise next-token log probabilities and contributed to paper writing.
  • Project 2: LREC 2026
  • Contributed to the development of ObfusQA; conducted observational experiments, LLM benchmarking, intrinsic analysis and layer wise norm-drop analysis, and assisted with paper writing (LaTeX).
  • Project 1: NAACL SRW 2025 (Non-archival) , ACL 2025
  • Contributed to the development of the SELF-PERCEPT framework through MultiManip dataset creation, dialogue pre-processing, prompt testing, model evaluation and paper writing (LaTeX).

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025

IK

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Summer Research Intern

Project 1: ReGal (AAAI Bridge 2026)

  • Developed ReGal, a PPO based legal reasoning system; engineered PPO training pipelines using Hugging Face TRL library, evaluated reward models, set up evaluation pipelines on Linux based PARAM Siddhi AI server, Vast AI and benchmarked PPO performance on legal judgment prediction and legal summarization across multiple models.

May 2024 - Sept 2024

Selected projects

Apr 2026

Dialogue

A real time system to rewrite User queries using LLMs, classify topics using custom DistilBERT.

Jan 2025

Sleep & Stress Analytics Dashboard

Power BI dashboard analyzing correlations between sleep quality, stress levels, and lifestyle factors (screen time, caffeine, physical activity) using a Kaggle-based dataset.

Nov 2024

AntariX

Improving the accuracy of orbit prediction for satellites using the SGP4 algorithm.

May 2024

SafeSpeak

Designed a hate speech detection system leveraging classical ML models and MLP networks.

Apr 2024

SafeLink

Phishing website detection system using ML classifiers and Neural Networks.

Skills

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Languages

C
Python
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Tools

Git
Linux
CI-CD
Docker
Jupyter Notebook
Google Colab
Kaggle
Lightning.ai
LaTeX
Vertex AI
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Libraries

NumPy
Pandas
Matplotlib
Scikit-Learn
Seaborn
Poetry
TRL
Vllm
SGlang
DLbacktrace
LM-Cache
LightLM
Layerskip
OpenCV
etc.
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Frameworks

TensorFlow
PyTorch
Flask
LangChain
Groq
Streamlit
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Techniques

Quantisation
Pruning
Speculative Decoding
Caching
Batching
Data/GPU Parallelism
context compression
attention-frameworks
token halting-merging
etc.
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Focus Areas

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Reinforcement Learning (RLHF, PPO, DPO)

Certifications

CertificationJune 2024

Deep Learning Specialization

Andrew NG (DeepLearning.AI / Coursera)

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CertificationApril 2024

Generative AI with Large Language Models

DeepLearning.AI / AWS (Coursera)

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CertificationApril 2024

Machine Learning Specialization

Andrew NG (DeepLearning.AI / Stanford / Coursera)

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CertificationOct 2024

NPTEL Certification in Programming in Java

NPTEL (IIT)

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Certification2024

NPTEL Certification in Introduction to Operating Systems

NPTEL (IIT)

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