Nilesh Sarkar / Blog

Events & Talks

• India AI Impact Summit 2026
  Feb 2026 • Conference
  Representing DSU at India's premier AI conference in New Delhi, showcasing university innovation and presenting research projects including LLM Architecture, Medical AI, and Autonomous Drones.
• Bangalore Drone Community Meetup
  Oct 2025 • Event
  Insights from the Bangalore Drone Community Meetup: Startups, regulations, and the future of UAVs.
• Build with AI: Google’s Agent Development Kit & MCP
  May 2025 • Workshop
  My experience at the Build with AI workshop organized by Google and Deep Tech Stars. Exploring ADK and Model Context Protocol.
• NASA Space Apps: Landsat SR on the fly
  Oct 2024 • Hackathon
  A solution for comparing ground observations with Landsat Surface Reflectance data and alerting users of satellite overpasses.

Notes & Experiments

• Sutskever's List: Foundational AI Research
  Reading List • Ilya Sutskever
  A curated collection of 30 research papers that Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) claims contain "90% of what matters today" in AI.
• Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks
  Reproduction • Andrej Karpathy
  A reproduction of Andrej Karpathy's legendary "Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks". A code-first approach to understanding backpropagation and real-valued circuits.
• Agentic RAG chatbot with LangGraph — project notes
  Jul 2024 • Project Notes
  Building an Agentic RAG workflow with LangGraph and Streamlit. The system prioritizes PDF Q&A and falls back to web search when necessary.
• Image generation with Stable Diffusion — quick notes
  Apr 2024 • Experiments
  Running experiments with Stable Diffusion v1.5 via diffusers. Exploring negative prompts, guidance scales, and prompt engineering basics.

Research & Engineering

• Medical AI: Deep Learning for Cancer Detection
  Dec 2025 • Research Project
  Exploring deep learning for medical imaging, focusing on automated cancer detection and using generative models for better data augmentation.
• LectureToSlides: Video to PDF Converter
  Tool • Computer Vision & AI
  A browser-based tool I built that uses computer vision to find slide transitions in videos and Gemini AI to generate notes and quizzes.
• Language Modeling Experimentation
  Jan–Feb 2026 • Ongoing Project
  Hands-on experimentation with LLM fine-tuning, compression, and deployment across diverse hardware. Testing Qwen models (0.5B → 7B) on Indic languages and deploying Gemma 3 1B on Jetson Nano edge devices.
• Project Humanoid Robot
  Sep 2025 • Research Project
  Research project focused on developing a teleoperated robotic arm system for humanoid robotics applications, with an emphasis on intuitive human-robot interaction.
• Autonomous Intelligence & Robotics (AIR): Autonomous Surveillance Drone
  Present • Research Group
  We are in the concept of building surveillance drones. More stuff coming soon.
• Local AI Connect: Private Copilot for VS Code
  Dec 2025 • VS Code Extension
  A private VS Code copilot bridging local LLMs into the editor. Current goals include training and fine-tuning models to write ROS code and automate robotics workflows.