Surya Kasturi
Born and raised in Hyderabad, India
Living in Boston, MA
Interested in how several things compose into something cool
Projects
- Florina, 2025 - present
Voice AI assistant that helps women passively track their cycles from journaling lived experiences
- How Far Can One Example Go? Reinforcement Learning Across Logic, Math, and Language, Sundai Club, Jun 2025
Can reinforcement learning on a single high-variance summarization example improve performance on other, unseen instances within the same domain?
- Personal health assistant, Out of Pocket Hackathon, May 2025
Spent a day trying a bunch of ideas with a team of ops, growth and medical professionals. Used LLM to identify perks available to people them from their insurance documents.
- Schema guided dialog state tracking, DSTC8, AAAI 2020
Developed dialogue state tracking models suitable for large-scale virtual assistants, with a focus on data-efficient joint modeling across domains and zero-shot generalization to new APIs.
- Synthetic dataset for document visual question answering, Apr 2020
Developed a synthetic VQA dataset from existing QA datasets
- Knowledge-grounded conversation modeling, DSTC7, AAAI 2019
Trained BERT and memory net to generate meaningful responses by conditioning responses with history and Wikipedia facts.
- Synthetic generation of MNIST style dataset using Google Fonts, Jun 2018
Developed a synthetic MNIST style dataset using Google Fonts to measure out of distribution performance of convolutional neural nets
- C implementation of Python's string module, Nov 2017
I was unimpressed by the lack of advanced string manipulation functions without linking to a massive GNU lib
- Knowledge distillation of time series forecast models, Aug 2017
Developed deep neural net models for forecasting and detecting anomalies in chiller plants performance using real-time sensors
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