Hi 👋, I'm Utkarsh
- 🎓 Masters Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Jan 2024 - May 2025).
- 🎓 Bachelors Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India (Aug 2017 - Jun 2021).
- Developing EquiCat an equivariant graph neural network that learns rich molecular representations via self-supervised contrastive learning on 3D conformers.
- Demonstrated EquiCat’s effectiveness on the downstream task of enantioselectivity (ΔΔG) prediction for asymmetric catalysis, achieving an R² > 0.9 with just 20-40% of the labeled dataset.
- 🔭 Worked as a Rotational Analyst in the Markets: Cleared Derivatives Division at ION Group (2021 - 2023).
- (NLP & ML) for Healthcare research at Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre.
- Visiting Research Associate at Queen's University Beflast.
📫 How to reach me [email protected] and [email protected]