rkd = {
"name" : "Radha Krishna Deshpande",
"role" : "ML Engineer Β· Junior Researcher",
"institute" : "IIIT Hyderabad (MS by Research, CSE β 2025β2027)",
"lab" : "CVIT β Centre for Visual Information Technology",
"focus" : ["OCR", "Multilingual NLP", "Information Retrieval", "LLMs"],
"publication": "Label-Free Adaptation of Indic Printed OCR @ ICVGIP 2025",
"currently" : "Building CLiGRA β cross-lingual retrieval + QA for Indic archives",
"ask_me_about": ["OCR pipelines", "Elasticsearch", "Rust + databases", "Tamil scripts"],
"fun_fact" : "I wrote a DB projection operator in Rust that's 10Γ faster & 256Γ more memory-efficient",
}| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| CLiGRA π | Hybrid cross-lingual retrieval + QA for Hindi, English & Punjabi archives | Python FAISS Django NLP |
| Indic OCR Adaptation π | Label-free self-supervised domain adaptation for low-resource Indic scripts | PyTorch OCR SSL |
| RookDB π¦Ύ | Optimized projection operator with adaptive reordering β 10Γ speedup on 1B rows | Rust Rayon SIMD |
π ICVGIP 2025 β Label-Free Adaptation of Indic Printed OCR
π
Pre-Regional Math Olympiad Qualifier
π MS by Research, CSE β IIIT Hyderabad (2025β2027)
ποΈ NPTEL Certified β Java Programming