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title: "Deepak C Nayak - Research Engineer in Hassan | Tal"
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# Deepak C Nayak on Tal

## 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

codex

cursor

## 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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