Aarsh Wankar

B.Tech CSE @ IIT Gandhinagar | Deep Learning • Computer Vision • Optimization Theory

About Me

I am a third-year B.Tech student in Computer Science at IIT Gandhinagar. My interests lie at the intersection of deep learning, optimization, and computer vision. I enjoy working on problems that combine strong mathematical foundations with practical applications, from optimization theory to vision transformers.

Projects

Improving Adversarial Robustness of Vision transformers

Found a new positional encoding which made vision transformers more robust against frequency based adversarial attacks.

Graph Quality in HNSW

Studied improvements in Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs for efficient nearest neighbor search.

Drone Detection and distance estimation

Implementing a drone detection system using computer vision techniques and estimating the distance of the drone from the camera using SFM (structure from motion)

Open Source Contributions (PyMC)

Contributed to the PyMC library by fixing bugs and implementing new features.

Experience

Undergraduate Researcher - IIT Gandhinagar

Working with Prof. Anirban Dasgupta on using Hessian information to speed up deep neural network training.

Contact

Personal Email: wankar.aarsh@gmail.com

Academic Email: aarsh.wankar@iitgn.ac.in

GitHub: github.com/Aarsh-Wankar

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aarsh-wankar