Soham Petkar
I am a final-year Computer Science student at Plaksha University and I am currently researching on interpretability and machine unlearning at Precog Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. My past research were based on Retrieval Augmentation Generation related RL problems and learning visual embeddings involving jigsaw puzzles in particular. I have also worked in the fields of Human-Centered Computing during an project invloving detecting human impairements using vision language models.
Topics of research that intrigue me include, but are not limited to, interpretability, puzzles, update-rule algorithms, language modelling, deterministic reasoning mechanisms or anything that imparts tacit knowledge in models!
Outside of my academic and research endeavors, I have a deep appreciation for cinema. I love critically analyzing modern films and am actively involved in filmography and directing. My team and I have won competitions at BITS-H, Ashoka, and internal university events. Additionally, I’m passionate about e-sports, having participated in competitive gaming and worked as an analyst for the same.
I also blog and tweet sometimes.
news
- 2025.02: My new 1st-author paper has been accepted to CHI 2025 Late Breaking Work! “AdaptAI: A Personalized Solution to Sense Your Stress, Fix Your Mess, and Boost Productivity”! Feel so grateful to my mentor and collaborators.