CLASS XII · DELHI · TARGETING AY 2027–28
From transformer internals to physical reasoning robots — I build the thing, then ask what's underneath it. Currently working through the TARQ curriculum: 10 projects, 14 weekends, one reasoning robot.
// ABOUT
I'm Om Patnaik, a Class 12 student in Delhi working at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and hardware. My first real research project — comparing mBERT and MuRIL on Hinglish hate speech — taught me to read what a model's failure is actually saying.
That question led deeper: from language, to reasoning systems, to physical hardware. I'm now building TARQ — a 6-DOF arm that reasons before it acts. The goal isn't a demo. It's understanding every layer of the stack, from training data to silicon.
// PROJECTS
// RESEARCH
Compared two multilingual transformer models on Hinglish hate speech detection — mBERT (Google's multilingual BERT) against MuRIL, a model pre-trained specifically on Indian languages. The core question was not which number was higher, but what mBERT's failure mode reveals about how multilingual models represent code-switched text.
// SKILLS
greyed out = in progress or upcoming as part of the TARQ curriculum
// CONTACT
If you're from an admissions office, a research group, or just curious about something I've built — reach out.