🚀 Projects

Below is a selection of academic and industry projects I have worked on prior to joining IIT (BHU) Varanasi, with a focus on privacy-preserving technologies, secure systems, and applied machine learning.

🧪 Academic Research Projects

🔐 FAIR – Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services

The Alan Turing Institute (with HSBC), 2024–25

Functionalities:

• Privacy, integrity, and verifiability in collaborative machine learning.
• Developed a secure fuzzy name-matching system to find approximate matches across borders.

My Role:

• Integrated robust aggregation rules with PETs.
• Ensured the integrity of local and global model updates.
• Developed a secure protocol for approximate entity resolution.

Technologies Used:

• Federated Learning
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-party Computation, Differential Privacy

🪪 TDI – Trustworthy Digital Identity

The Alan Turing Institute (Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), 2024–25

Functionalities:

• Investigated the technical, social, and systemic risks of digital identity systems.

My Role:

• Developed a private and fair biometric data sharing scheme.

Technologies Used:

• PETs: Homomorphic Encryption, SMPC
• Fairness-aware Machine Learning

🏭 Industrial Projects @ Diebold Nixdorf (2016–2019)

🔄 DevOps – Continuous Integration & Development | 2018

Functionalities:

• Automated build, testing, and packaging pipelines.
• Enabled automatic error reporting and maintenance scripts.

My Role:

• Designed modular repositories for faster builds.
• Created Jenkins pipelines and modular build artifacts.

Technologies Used:

• Git, Jenkins, Nexus
• Phoenix PTC, Maven, Gradle, NuGet, WIX

💳 NFC EMV – Contactless ATM Transactions | 2018

Functionalities:

• Enabled secure contactless (NFC-EMV) ATM transactions.
• Ensured compliance with EMV protocols.

My Role:

• Designed application-layer and device-host communication.
• Integrated secure EMV transaction flows.

Technologies Used:

• C++, Angular, HTML, CSS
• ATM emulation tools, Skype, Speech Engines

🎯 1:1 Ad – Personalized ATM Marketing | 2017

Functionalities:

• Targeted customer-specific marketing ads at ATMs.
• Integrated cloud-based ad delivery and user profiling.

My Role:

• Developed responsive UI designs.
• Supported multi-region, multi-bank customer segmentation.

Technologies Used:

• C++, Angular, HTML, CSS

If you’d like to collaborate or discuss more about any of these, feel free to get in touch.