Maheak Dave

I am an AI enthusiast, passionate about creating meaningful solutions preferably using AI technologies.

Research

I have experience in computer vision, deep learning, generative AI, and image processing. I am interested in any domain where I believe, I can meaningfully contribute to humankind.

Below are the highlights of my research journey. Shoutout to my peers and my mentors who have helped me in this journey.

Self Distillation via Iterative Constructive Perturbations
Maheak Dave, Aniket Singh, Aryan Pareek, Harshita Jha, Debasis Chaudhuri, Manish Pratap Singh
Preprint arxiv, 2025
ArXiv

Exploit effects of constructive perturbations (gradient descent on input samples) via self distillation to enhance neural network's performance.

Experience

Research Intern
DRDO project executive lab, Techno India University
Kolkata, West Bengal
Sep, 2024 - Sep, 2025
Internship Report

Worked on the XCA (Explaining the Cognitive Algorithms) project as a research intern, which was a CARS project issued by DYSL-CT lab, chennai. Details of my work during my internship can be viewed in the internship report above.

Undergrad

Techno India University
Kolkata, West Bengal
2021 - 2025
CGPA - 8.52

Pursued B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in A.I.

Stood in top positions in two national level hackathons [Anonymizer Hackathon (Team TIUCSE - 6th) and NASA Space apps challenge local chapter-Noida (Team Stardust Crusaders - 1st)]. Shoutout to both teams.
Worked on multiple research papers.
Recieved best paper award for a paper submission in a local conference.

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