Aheli Poddar

*Latest updates*

🔗 [Mar 2026] Came 1st in UIDAI National Data Hackathon 2026 🥇
🔗 [Feb 2026] Joined Red Hat PyTorch team as an intern ⛷️
🔗 [Jan 2026] Paper accepted at ECIR 2026 IR-for-Good 😃 Give it a read
🔗 [Dec 2025] Paper accepted at AAAI 2026 Bridge LMReasoning 🎉 Give it a read
🔗 [Nov 2025] Placed 4th in the Apart Research AI Forecasting Hackathon 🏅
🔗 [Oct 2025] Selected as a Google Generation APAC Scholar 🫡
🔗 [June 2025] Selected for European Summer of Code (ESoC) 2025 🥳
🔗 [May 2025] Started as a Summer Intern under Dr. Priyesh Shukla at IIITH on QLLMs 
🔗 [May 2025] Selected as one of the McKinsey APAC NGWLs 2025
🔗 [July 2024] Interned at IIT Roorkee during the summer, developing BiLSTM models for economic nowcasting

Hi, I’m Aheli (my name literally translates to “Grace” )!

I’m currently a final year undergrad in Electrical Engineering at IEM Kolkata. My interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, data science and their applications in sustainability, healthcare and economic forecasting.

I’ve interned at IIT Roorkee, Acencore, IEM Labs, KIT Germany where I worked on projects ranging from economic growth nowcasting, recommendation systems, Quantum Optimization Algorithms to IoT-ML in medical diagnostics. I enjoy building and optimizing AI models that solve real-world problems, and I’m always looking for opportunities to learn and collaborate! 

When I’m not building models or diving into data, you’ll probably find me doing something creative or competitive. I used to be an inter-district swimmer and I still get a thrill from staying up late to catch Euro league matches (sleep schedule who?). Music is a big part of my life. I’m trained in Hindustani classical and Rabindra Sangeet and nothing beats unwinding with a good raga or Tagore song (check out my Spotify).

I love painting and writing and I’m always hunting for the next great film (avid cinephile alert! check out my letterboxd) 

For more on my research, projects please check out my Github and Project page!