About
Hello, I am Nivesh, a UG 4th year at IIT Bombay in the CSE department. I am highly interested in reasearch in CryptoGraphy and Game Theory and enjoy learning new things in these fields. I am currently working with Prof. Chetan Kamath on Timed Cryptographic Primitives and Prof. Swaprava Nath on Intermediary Network Auctions.
You can download my resume/CV here.
I am always eager to learn new things and challenge myself. I love traveling and exploring new places, meeting new people and learning about their cultures. I am a huge nature lover and food enthusiast. My idea of a perfect day is a refreshing morning trek followed by a hearty meal and good music. I believe in living each moment to its fullest and always trying your best, as that’s the best anyone can do.
Experiences
- worked under Prof. Chetan Kamath on understanding Timed Cryptographic Primitives like Time Lock Puzzles and Verifiable Delay Functions
- Modeled the problem using graphs and Bayesian settings, specifying type distributions and valuation functions and designed a mechanism for simple graphs
- Proved hardness of general auction design in tree networks by reducing from UDMO
- Worked on improving non linear model training pipeline by normalizing the input features given, optimising loss functions and other paramters achieving an improvement of 2-4 percent
- Worked on a simulator for testing models, allowing us to compare them faster and provide more flexibility
Positions of Responsibility
- Helped in making solutions for quizzes and grading them. Also conducted paper-solving sessions for all the exams
- Mentored students in CNN architectures and PyTorch implementation, achieving 89% accuracy in brain tumor detection models
- Designed curriculum covering neural network fundamentals and NumPy implementations to reduce framework dependency