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Nadeem Akhtar

About

I am an AI researcher and engineer based in Bengaluru, India. My research covers efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA), federated learning, model compression, and how well language models reason after compression or across languages. At Synaptics I design and ship enterprise AI automation, including an invoice automation platform that is live for the Korea division. I studied for an M.Tech in Data Science at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (2024–2026).

Research interests

Education

Languages

English, Hindi

Skills

LLM and SLM
PyTorch, Hugging Face (Transformers, PEFT, bitsandbytes, Datasets), LoRA, QLoRA, Federated learning
Compression
Quantization (NF4, AWQ, GPTQ, SmoothQuant, SparseGPT, Wanda, QAT), Pruning
Theory and methods
SVD and subspace tracking, Non-convex optimization, Convergence analysis, Statistical hypothesis testing (McNemar, Wilcoxon, Cohen's d)
Engineering and cloud
Python, FastAPI, Docker, Oracle SQL, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Azure, OCI, NVIDIA H100 HPC