Scholar
Avani Gupta
Google Scholar ID: 8yBoW2oAAAAJ
MBZUAI, IIIT Hyderabad
Citations & Impact
Citations
126
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
13
Co-authors
5
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper “Concept Distillation: Leveraging Human-Centered Concepts for Model Improvement” accepted at NeurIPS 2023
- Paper “Interpreting Intrinsic Image Decomposition using Concept Activations” received Oral Presentation and Best Paper Award at ICVGIP 2022
- Paper “Predicting Business Process Events in Presence of Anomalous IT Events” accepted at CODS-COMAD 2024
- Co-developed and released medical LLM Med42 on Hugging Face (December 2023)
- Filed two patents and published research during tenure at IBM Research
- Publications in top-tier venues: NeurIPS, COLING, CODS-COMAD, ICVGIP
Research Experience
- April 2024–Present: AI Engineer at a Stealth AI Startup, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- End-to-end training of LLMs from scratch, covering data curation, pre-training, SFT, and RLHF alignment
- Designed novel attention mechanisms and synthetic data pipelines
- Built an AI assistant with advanced multi-modal retrieval using RAPTOR and self-re-RAG (LangChain, FastAPI)
- March 2023–March 2024: Research Associate at G42 Healthcare, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Trained a foundation model from scratch for predicting medical procedures, diagnosis, and medications
- Collaborated with IBM Research on reinforcement learning for business process optimization
