Hardik Jindal

About

Hey, this is Hardik! Welcome to my website. I'm pursuing a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Machine Learning at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I currently work with Prof. Sayak Ray Chowdhury on vision–language models, and have previously worked with Prof. Soumya Dutta on autoencoders and diffusion models.

Apart from academics, I love building stuff and I'm quite active in the open source community. I also enjoy music and football ⚽ — visca el Barça!

Research Interests

💬 Natural Language Processing ⚡ Language Model Optimization 🎯 Reinforcement Learning 🔬 Mechanistic Interpretability 🤝 Multi-Agent Systems 🧭 AI Alignment

Recent News

dec 2025
Joining RISA Labs as a Member of Technical Staff next year 🚀
jun 2025
Started working with Prof. Sayak Ray Chowdhury on in-context learning in vision–language models.
aug 2024
Joining Oracle as a summer intern.

Experience

Research Collaborator
aug 2025 — present

MIT Sloan School of Management

Working at the intersection of optimization and large language models.
Project Intern
may 2025 — jul 2025

Oracle

Explored fuzzy clustering as an alternative to k-means for IVF indexes, enabling soft assignment.
Research Collaborator
jan 2025 — sep 2025

MIT Media Lab

Ran simulations across Markovian and n-ary random walks to quantify gradient instability in long-horizon settings; extensive experiments on discrete control, multi-agent coordination, and stochastic simulation.
Open Source Developer
may 2024 — aug 2024

Google Summer of Code

Built a RAG-based RESTful API in Flask for retrieving cybersecurity news across 100+ articles from leading outlets.
Coordinator
mar 2024 — apr 2025

Programming Club, IIT Kanpur

Led a two-tier team of 25 secretaries to foster a culture of programming on campus.