Anupam Rawat CV

Research engineer in Mumbai,

I make language models decode faster.

1.28× faster decoding at Conscious Engines. Before that, AI for physics at IBM Research.

Anupam Rawat
Paper · NeurIPS 2026

COSMOS

47%

lower long-horizon rollout error than baseline neural operators. Built at IBM Research.

Read on arXiv ↗
Product · 2026

Whettle

Live

at real hotels. I was the only engineer: bookings, billing, payments and guest messaging.

Hackathon · Sep 2026

Amazon ML Challenge

5th

on the public leaderboard. Resolved lookalike business records across 1.7M entities with LoRA-tuned Qwen judges.

Papers

  1. 2026
    COSMOS: Soft Mechanism Mixtures with Verifiable Routing for Long-Horizon PDE Forecasting

    A. Rawat, M. Padmanaban, J. Hazra. NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (STODY), poster.

    arXivOpenReview

  2. 2026
    GeoNLI: A Natural Language Interpreter for Satellite Imagery

    A. Gandhe, A. Rawat, G. Sethi, et al. Inter IIT Tech Meet 14.0, ISRO.

    arXiv

All papers on Google Scholar ↗

Work

  1. 2026–

    Conscious Engines

    Research Engineer Intern

    Draft-and-judge decoding for the SDAR-30B diffusion MoE: 1.28× end-to-end speedup, 1.60× fewer 30B passes.

  2. 2026

    IBM Research

    AI Research Intern

    Mixture-of-experts neural operator for mixed physics. Became COSMOS.

  3. 2026

    Whettle

    Technical Lead

    Sole engineer of a hotel operating system running at live properties.

  4. 2025

    Wyzr Fintech, London

    Data Science Intern

    Rule-first, LLM-fallback reconciliation; +33% match rate.

Hackathons

  1. 2026

    Amazon ML Challenge

    5th, public leaderboard

    Business entity resolution over 1.7M records with Team Clauders: retrieval, LoRA-tuned Qwen judges, LightGBM.

  2. 2026

    Gemini Hackathon

    Ghar, Live API track

    Talk to a live AI designer, get room concepts, narrated tours and an architect's build pack. Demo

  3. 2026

    Amazon HackOn S6

    ReVival

    Seven agents that grade, price and resell returned products instead of sending them to landfill.

  4. 2025

    Inter IIT Tech Meet 14.0

    ISRO problem statement

    GeoNLI, a natural-language interpreter for satellite imagery. Became a paper.

  5. 2025

    Kaggle super-resolution

    Rank 4

    4× upscaling for game frames that beat RCAN and SwinIR baselines.

  6. 2024

    Qualcomm VisionX

    Rank 4 of 150+ teams

    Transformer-based reflection removal, +22% PSNR over the baselines.

Projects

2026 In development

MacToolKit

A PowerToys-style menu-bar suite for macOS: window snapping, a per-window switcher with live previews, clipboard history and a launcher. Native Swift, no dependencies.

2026

PriorityKV

KV-cache compression that keeps an agent's tool calls intact over long traces.
2026

AlignmentLab

Matched-compute SFT, DPO and GRPO runs showing how correctness-blind rewards break RLVR.

2026

VID-CURATOR

Long-video QA that beats 16 uniform frames using only 8 chosen ones (0.647 vs 0.493 on NExT-GQA).

Academics

Education

  1. 2022–27

    IIT Bombay

    B.Tech + M.Tech, Electrical Engineering

    Minor in Computer Science.

  2. 2023–27

    IIT Madras

    BS, Data Science and Applications

    Online degree, alongside IIT Bombay.

Scholastic achievements

  1. 2021

    KVPY Fellowship

    Government of India

    Top 1,000 in India.

  2. 2021

    Indian Astronomy Olympiad

    Stage 2

    Top 255 of 10,000+.

  3. 2019–20

    PRMO

    Qualified twice

    Top 300 in North-West India.

Teaching

  1. 2026

    Teaching Assistant

    Intro to AI/ML, IIT Bombay

    90+ students.

  2. 2024

    Mentor

    Seasons of Code, WnCC

    21 students, time-series forecasting.