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Sankalp’s lab

Behind this page is an illustrated 3D scene: Sankalp's lab, a little room on a mountain at the edge of a meadow, where visitors build villages and little villagers live, with hills, a river and a train beyond. It can be explored with a mouse or by touch, and walked with the keyboard. Everything about Sankalp, his research, papers, experience and how to reach him, is in the text of this page.

Hi, I’m Sankalp.

Come on up. This is where I work. I study what happens when you merge fine-tuned language models, and whether you can tell what will break just by looking at the weights.

I’m doing research at IIIT Allahabad, and I finished my B.Tech in computer science at JUET in 2025. I’m also a Three.js enthusiast: I built this room, and the meadow below it is yours to build in.

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Scroll to walk around. Anything with a glowing ring does something when you click it.

The hologram

That’s a toy version of my rate–distortion result. When you squash several fine-tuned adapters into one model, you pay for it in error. The paper works out the least you can pay for a given number of bits.

Slide it down and the points snap to a coarser grid, and the error grows.

Read the paper

The bookshelf

These are my papers. One is published and five are under review. I write my predictions down before running the experiments that test them, and I report the ones that fail too.

Read the abstracts and try the toys

The wet-lab corner

Not everything here is a transformer. With NPL India and National United University in Taiwan, I helped build an app that reads uric acid from a paper test strip with nothing but a phone camera. It’s published in Chemical Engineering Science, and two patents are filed.

The channels on those strips were drawn by the little pen plotter on my desk.

Read the paper

Click the plotter or the cart for a closer look. The lamps switch off, too.

  • The appIt matches the strip against eight reference spots.
  • The paper stripReads 1.5 to 25 mg/dL. No enzymes needed.

The pinboard

This is where I keep track of where I’ve been.

All of it on one page

  • IIIT Allahabad, since May 2026Research intern with Dr. Naveen Saini. I built MOOLoRA, which merges debiasing adapters for Indic-language models as a Pareto problem.
  • With Prof. Sanjay Garg, since 2025Independent research on adapter merging, looped transformers, and how evaluation choices change conclusions.
  • GreyB, Aug to Dec 2025Research analyst: prior-art searches and technical reports on AI, vision and networking.
  • AWS Certified AI PractitionerJuly 2026, scored 942 out of 1000.

Saturday game-dev class

On Saturdays I taught game development to juniors at JUET. Forty-five people came in my second year, 117 in my third, and more than two hundred in my last.

I also won RideHack 2024 and JUET Builds (the trophies are on the bookshelf), and I was joint secretary of the VR/AR/MR club.

  • 45 → 117 → 200+students, over three years of Saturdays
  • The lab catClick to pet.

Things I’ve made

Point at one and it’ll show up on the monitor.

That’s the tour

Thanks for stopping by. If you’d like to talk about research, work together, or just ask about the cat, write to me:

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