Siddharth R. Nahar Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Developed Affective Computing aspects for robots- Developed a python version of the COVAREP MATLAB package for emotion analysis in speech. - Researched visual question answering(VQA) tasks using vision language models and Large Multimodal Models. Familiar models: Closed source: Claude-3 (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku), GPT-4( 4o, 4o mini) , Gemini-1.5(Pro, Flash).Open source models: LLaVA (1.5, 1.6), MiniGPT-4, Idefics-1, Idefics-2, LLaVAPhi-2, Phi-3-Vision - Integrated the above mentioned models in a web applicaiton for a comparaitive analysis, with the help of streamlit and FastAPI. Optimized the pipeline with asynchronus data streaming for large outputs, reducing latency.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Analysed speech synthesis and voice cloning solutions for the Audio team at Miko. Studied and utilised open source TTS and voice cloning models/frameworks for the same such as, YourTTS, Coqui-TTS, StarGAN-VC, Tortoise, SoftVC, FreeVC and VALL-E.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Developed embedded systems for model rocket ignition and thrust measurement systems-Managed a student crowd of 10,000+ students over a period of 3 days at Maha Edufest 2023-Responsible for teaching higher level physics concepts to 7th and 8th class students in a simple manner, so as to provide a primer. This was facilitated under ISET's Bhavishika program.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Curated 3 online events with 50+ participants each. Supervised making presentations, registration forms and email templates for the said events. Peer reviewed technical content and blogs by junior members.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

In charge of creative email template design using Mailchimp web application software. Created 5+ designs for events as well as recruitment processes and other announcements by the club.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electronics And Telecommunication, 9.36 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Presented research papers at ESCI 2023 and InCACCAT 2024Hons. in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics.

84.92%

HSC Science

94%

ICSE