Hardik Jindal
Final Year Undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Hey, this is Hardik! Welcome to my website. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering with minor in Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
I am deeply interested in Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning and its application in Language Models. I am currently working with Prof. Sayak Ray Chowdhury on Vision Language Models (VLMs). I have previously worked with Prof. Soumya Dutta on Autoendcoders and Diffusion Models.
Apart from academics, I love buidling stuff and I am quite active in the open source community, having contributions in various open source projects. I also enjoy music and football and I am a big fan of FC Barcelona.
Research Interests
Recent News
| Dec 01, 2025 | I will be joining RISA Labs as a Member of Technical Staff next year. |
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| Jun 10, 2025 | I will be working under Prof. Sayak Ray Choudhary at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on In-Context Learning in Visual Language Models (VLMs). |
| Aug 10, 2024 | I will be joining Oracle as a Summer Intern. |
Experience
Research Collaborator
MIT Sloan School of Management
Aug 2025 - Present •
Optimization and LLMs
Project Intern
Oracle
May 2025 - Jul 2025 •
Explored Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm as an alternative for Kmeans algorithm for IVF Indexes, enhancing soft assignment
Research Collaborator
MIT Media Labs
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025 •
Conducted simulations across Markovian and n-ary random walks to quantify gradient instability in long-horizon settings. Performed extensive experiments on discrete control tasks, multi-agent coordination and stochastic simulations
Open Source Developer
Google Summer Of Code
May 2024 - Aug 2024 •
Developed a RAG based RESTful API in Flask for retrieval of cybersecurity news from 100+ articles by leading news outlets
Coordinator
Programming Club IITK
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025 •
Lead a two-tier team comprising of 25 secretaries to foster a culture of programming within the campus community