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AI & Machine Learning Systems, Gen Models & Optimization

Research Scholar, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore · India AI Fellow | GOI

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“Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”

— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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About Me

I am an MS by Research student in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science specializing in AI Alignment, LLM Evaluations, and Resource-Aware ML Systems. My work focuses on understanding foundation models beyond surface-level performance, emphasizing objective design, optimization behavior, and model reliability.

My research focuses on epistemic reasoning in multi-source conflict resolution and building instrumented benchmarks to measure the accuracy-efficiency trade-offs of foundation models. My current MS thesis explores multi-objective optimization and Pareto-frontier analysis to ensure AI systems remain reliable, grounded, and computationally sustainable at scale.

I have hands-on experience with vision models and ML systems, alongside a solid theoretical grounding in generative modeling, loss formulations, KL-divergence, and ELBO-based objectives, driving research toward robust, resource-aware multimodal and language-based learning systems.

Jul 2025 - Present

Research Scholar

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Feb 2025 - May 2025

Machine Learning Intern

BigMint

Aug 2023 - Nov 2023

Research Intern

IIIT-Naya Raipur

May 2023 - Jul 2023

Machine Learning Intern

IIIT-Naya Raipur

Research

Selected Publications [ Visit all Papers →]

SIGMOD/PODS 2026 A* Conference

Reliability-Aware Structured Synthetic Data Generation via Schema Enforcement and Layered Repair

Sachin Mishra. 2026. Reliability-Aware Structured Synthetic Data Generation via Schema Enforcement and Layered Repair. In Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation and Management for Building AI Systems (SynthAI '26), May 31-June 05, 2026, Bengaluru, India. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.

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2026 - Conference Paper

Automated Assessment of Rooftop Solar Energy Potential Using Deep Learning-Driven Building Footprint Extraction Model

In Advanced Computing and Communications: Technologies for a Sustainable Future, Springer (First Online: 03 June 2026, pp. 99–114).

2025 - Patent

AI ENABLED AUDIO PROCESSING PEN FOR TRANSCRIPTION

SM Sachin Mishra et al. In Patent 189,584.

Portfolio

Works and Projects

Here are research & engineering projects developed across my Postgrad (Master's) and Undergrad journey.

Postgrad Projects

Master's
LLM Reasoning & Trust · FSR Benchmark

Reliable Multi-Source Reasoning for LLMs (FSR Benchmark)

  • Developed the FSR benchmark comprising 1,000 multi-source fact bundles to evaluate trust, temporal reasoning, and conflict resolution across 7B–72B LLMs using structured metadata.
  • Investigated how LLMs decide what to trust when sources disagree, identifying a reliance on superficial heuristics and sycophancy over genuine epistemic reasoning.
Zeus-ML Profiling · LLaMA-3 8B

Reliability-Resource Tradeoffs in Structured Synthetic Data

  • Instrumented a LLaMA-3 8B pipeline with Zeus-ML across 1,980 generation calls to profile multiobjective tradeoffs among validity, GPU energy, and latency.
  • Demonstrated that schema enforcement with repair reduces GPU energy consumption by 47.9% and latency significantly.
Resource Efficiency · 1.5B–72B Models

RANGE: Resource-Aware Generation Efficiency

  • Introduced an instrumented characterization framework with a usable-yield metric family (UR/J, UR/$, UR/s) applied to ten models (1.5B–72B).
  • Discovered a format-dependent "CSV scale-efficiency penalty," proving that larger models consume disproportionately more energy for structured generation despite higher success rates.

Undergrad Projects

B.Tech

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Sachin.Mishra@iiitb.ac.in 007mishrasachinmishra@gmail.com