About

Hello! I'm a first-year CS PhD student at the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah. I'm fortunate to be working with Prof. Aditya Bhaskara. I'm also a part of Utah's Theory Group. Previously, I spent a year as a research assistant at the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2) @IIT Delhi (led by Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty), and also as a research assistant at the Networks and Learning Group at TIFR Mumbai (led by Dr. Abhishek Sinha). I'm broadly interested in fundamental problems in artificial intelligence with a particular focus on robustness and efficiency. The best way to reach me is via my email (urssidd@gmail.com), and you can find my other links at the bottom of this page.

Research interests: High-dimensional statistics, Optimization, Large Language Models (inference efficiency, compression, data attribution, interpretability), Applied Probability.

Other interests: Sleeping, Eating, Progressive Metal, Lifting, Speed Typing, Gaming, Investing

Publications

Industry/OSS Experience

  • PhD SWE Intern, Google
    May 2026 - August 2026
    Efficient inference in LLMs.
  • Open Source Developer, Google Summer of Code
    May 2024 – October 2024
    Ported ColBERT to Julia; developed and maintained ColBERT.jl.
  • Open Source Developer, Google Summer of Code
    May 2022 - October 2022
    Contributed to and wrote various packages in the JuliaStats ecosystem.

News

  • Aug 2025 Our paper on a new KV cache compression technique accepted at NeurIPS 2025!
  • Aug 2025 Started my PhD in computer science at KSoC, U of U!
  • Apr 2025 My work on ColBERT.jl accepted as a main talk to JuliaCon 2025!
  • Jan 2025 Our paper on PruneNet, a novel structured model compression technique, accepted to ICLR 2025!
  • Jun 2024 Our paper on fair contextual bandits accepted at FoRLaC@ICML2024!
  • May 2024 Joined LCS2@IITD as an RA!
  • May 2024 Graduated from CMI with a BS + MS in Computer Science!