Bachelor’s Dissertation 2025 – 2026
CERN & University of Delhi

Flow Anomaly Detection at the Large Hadron Collider using Normalizing Flows

  • Applied knowledge distillation to compress a normalizing flow model for real-time inference in L1 Triggers at the LHC to find new physics signals, achieving the inference latency of 10ms required for deployment on FPGAs.
  • Submitted to Springer Nature IJSA; awarded Outstanding (O) grade by the University of Delhi.
Normalizing Flows HEP Knowledge Distillation PyTorch
Undergraduate Research Intern Summer 2024
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER Bhopal)
  • Built a CNN-based facial recognition system (TensorFlow / Keras) for automated building access control, covering training through deployment.
Computer Vision CNN
Undergraduate Research Intern Apr 2023 – Mar 2024
Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, Delhi
  • Developed a VGG-19 based CNN model for early COVID-19 detection from chest X-ray images using TensorFlow, demonstrating statistically significant accuracy improvements over traditional diagnostic models.
Computer Vision Medical Imaging VGG-19

[1]
Fast Anomaly Detection with Flows at the LHC for Finding New Physics Signals using Knowledge Distillation
V. Kalra*, S. Sahi*, U. Sharma*  —  * equal contribution
Springer Nature — International Journal of Scientific Articles (IJSA) Under Review
Normalizing Flows Knowledge Distillation HEP · LHC Anomaly Detection
[2]
Automating Systematic Reviews: API-powered Bibliographic Data Retrieval Module for NeutrinoReview
E. Sandner, I. Ilicic, U. Sharma, I. Jakovljevic, A. Simiceanu, L. Fontana, A. Henriques, A. Wagner, C. Gütl
OSSYM 2025 — Open Science Symposium
NLP LLMs Open Science
[3]
Analysis of Computational Intelligence Techniques for COVID-19 Prediction
V. Kalra, M. Khanna, A. Bansal, U. Sharma, P. Ahuja, O. Gupta, S. Tuli
ICAICCIT 2023 — International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Communication, IoT, and Cognitive Computing  —  pp. 402–407
Medical Imaging CNN · VGG-19