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Deepak C Nayak

Research Engineer @ IBM Research | Prev. @ ERTS Lab, IITB | AI @ NITK ’26

Hassan

1+ year of work experience

IBM
Jul 20262 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SetCONNECT Global
Jan 20267 mosJul 2026

Remote

Tailored AI
Sep 20254 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

IBM
Aug 20254 mosNov 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

IBM
May 20254 mosAug 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on making small LMs better at long horizon agentic tasks using a novel 2 step fine-tuning process.
AI Planet
Aug 20243 mosOct 2024

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Worked on building robust and nuanced agentic workflows at OpenAGI.

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Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Artificial Intelligence

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

20224 yrs2026
CFAL India

HSC, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Statistics

CFAL India

20202 yrs2022

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Headline

Research Engineer @ IBM Research | Prev. @ ERTS Lab, IITB | AI @ NITK ’26

About

Undergrad at NITK. Exploring agents, information retrieval and NLP in general.

Location

Hassan

AI stack

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Work experience

Research Engineer at IBM, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Intern at SetCONNECT Global, Jan 2026 - Jul 2026 · 7 mos, Remote

Research Intern at Tailored AI, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Research Collaborator at IBM, Aug 2025 - Nov 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI Research Intern at IBM, May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on making small LMs better at long horizon agentic tasks using a novel 2 step fine-tuning process.

ML Intern at AI Planet, Aug 2024 - Oct 2024 · 3 mos, Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium, Worked on building robust and nuanced agentic workflows at OpenAGI.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Artificial Intelligence, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

HSC, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Statistics, CFAL India

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