Rishit Kar

Hi, I am Rishit Kar, a computer engineering undergraduate at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai University.

I work on software engineering from first principles, backend systems, agentic systems, medical AI, and practical machine learning systems that can be deployed in real-world settings.

Through collaborations with IIT Patna and IIT Mandi, I have worked on explainable medical AI, multimodal learning, and geometric deep learning for engineering systems. I also practice competitive programming and have solved more than 400 problems across Codeforces and LeetCode.

Experience
Jun – Jul 2026
AI Intern at Intellect Design Arena
Built AI agents including Classifier, Validator, Extractor, and Underwriter for Loan Origination System on Purple Fabric platform, automating manual pipeline across multiple LLMs.
Sept 2025 – Jan 2026
ML Intern at IIT Patna (Ms. Shivani Gupta)
Built multimodal disease detection model on MIMIC (40K+ EHR records, 25 diseases), improving PRAUC by 2.8% via graph architecture.
Jun – Jul 2025
ML Intern at CAIR Lab, IIT Mandi (Mr. Md Umar Farooq)
Optimized propeller geometries via DGCNN on 2048-point clouds, automating preprocessing of 400+ 3D models.
Recent Blog Posts
Taking the Open Source Plunge: Inside My First sktime Contribution
Taking the Open Source Plunge: Inside My First sktime Contribution
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Publications

I am most interested in core deep learning, large language models, and agentic AI , their architectures, their theoretical foundations, and their practical applications across vision, language, and reasoning.

OmniGate: Omics-Integrated Gating for Multi-Cancer Subtype Classification
Rishit Kar, Ved Ambulkar, Sargam Nagar, Varun Shenai, Ruhina Karani
PCCDA Conference, 2026 · SCOPUS Indexed Springer LNNS
Code

Multi-modal cancer classifier on the MLOmics benchmark (8,000+ patients, 32 cancer types). Dynamic context gating achieved best precision: GS-BRCA 0.890, GS-COAD 0.947, GS-LGG 0.985.

CraniMem: Cranial Inspired Gated and Bounded Memory for Agentic Systems
Pearl Mody, Mihir Panchal, Rishit Kar, Kiran Bhowmick, Ruhina Karani
ICLR Memagents Workshop, 2026 · Published
Arxiv  /  Workshop  /  Code  /  PyPI  / 

Neuro-inspired gated memory with utility filtering, episodic buffering, and pruned knowledge-graph consolidation. Evaluated on 100 HotPotQA samples across Qwen, Gemma, and Mistral, achieving F1 0.312 vs 0.068 baseline.

Projects
Clipper-dev
Cross-platform clipboard manager CLI for developers with persistent history tracking, fuzzy search, and structured content organization. Published as a Python package on PyPI with 5,000+ downloads. Features include history browser, statistics dashboard, and interactive TUI.
Code  /  PyPI
Multi-Model Pneumonia Diagnosis
Tested multiple deep learning models for pneumonia classification on 5,000+ chest X-ray images. Implemented a multimodal pipeline integrating spatial attention features with a Graph Attention Network (GAT). Custom CNN achieved 7–9% higher accuracy over ResNet and GNN baselines.
Code
Custom Reliable UDP Protocol
Reliable transport protocol with sliding-window flow control, retransmission, packet ordering, and SHA-256 integrity checks.
Code
Talks
Big Data without the Big Headache: PySpark for Beginners
Workshop · IDfy · Mumpy
Event  /  Slides

Presented in front of 75 people including students and professionals. An introductory workshop on PySpark, distributed data processing, and practical big-data workflows.

Cold Mailing for Research Internships and Profile Building
Webinar · ACM College Committee
Video  /  Slides

A talk on finding research opportunities, writing effective outreach, and building a student research profile.

Education
BTech, Computer Engineering
Dwarkadas Jivanlal Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai · 2023 – 2027 · CGPA 9.14
Research Head at DJS ACM
Mentored 15+ students in Machine Learning, facilitating research projects and collaborating with college professors to advance ML research within the community.