Saksham Kapoor
PyTorch CompilerPyTorch #189127: helping the compiler combine eligible calculations [merged]
CoreMLApple CoreML #2752 + #2753: added two missing image-operation translations [merged]
ExecuTorchExecuTorch #20734: Conv1d padding="same" fix for XNNPACK edge runtime [merged]
Apache AirflowAirflow #67881: LocalExecutor deadlock fix — OS pipe drain before join [merged]
Frontier AIMatrAIx: accepted for presentation at AWS-MLU Fall 2026 (Howard University & Amazon HQ2)
PublishedFirst-author meeting abstract: Bidirectional Affective Synchrony — Developmental Psychobiology (Wiley, 2026)
Academic LeadershipArea Chair @ NeurIPS 2026 AIDaR & EMNLP 2026 GroundLM
JudgingState & Regional Judge — White House AI Presidential Challenge 2026
Research InfraUMD CDL: SAM 2 propagation across 5,396 frames in 26m 21s vs. an estimated ~112-minute baseline
Distributed SystemsTrufflow: 73× PR-AUC · 28× debug speedup · 1.2M+ events/sec anomaly detection
LeadershipVP Big Th!nk AI (1,500+ members) · VP SALC · Lead Instructor ML Bootcamp
PyTorch CompilerPyTorch #189127: helping the compiler combine eligible calculations [merged]
CoreMLApple CoreML #2752 + #2753: added two missing image-operation translations [merged]
ExecuTorchExecuTorch #20734: Conv1d padding="same" fix for XNNPACK edge runtime [merged]
Apache AirflowAirflow #67881: LocalExecutor deadlock fix — OS pipe drain before join [merged]
Frontier AIMatrAIx: accepted for presentation at AWS-MLU Fall 2026 (Howard University & Amazon HQ2)
PublishedFirst-author meeting abstract: Bidirectional Affective Synchrony — Developmental Psychobiology (Wiley, 2026)
Academic LeadershipArea Chair @ NeurIPS 2026 AIDaR & EMNLP 2026 GroundLM
JudgingState & Regional Judge — White House AI Presidential Challenge 2026
Research InfraUMD CDL: SAM 2 propagation across 5,396 frames in 26m 21s vs. an estimated ~112-minute baseline
Distributed SystemsTrufflow: 73× PR-AUC · 28× debug speedup · 1.2M+ events/sec anomaly detection
LeadershipVP Big Th!nk AI (1,500+ members) · VP SALC · Lead Instructor ML Bootcamp
Engineering that landed upstream
Making shared AI tools compile models, convert operations, and shut down workers reliably.
PyTorch Inductor PR #189127: helped the compiler combine eligible calculations without changing the math. Explore the before-and-after explanation →OpenXLA: fixed a branch-order-dependent compiler issue that introduced unnecessary data copies.CoreMLTools & Airflow: added image-operation conversions and resolved a worker-shutdown deadlock. See the contributions →
PyTorch InductorCoreML MILOpenXLAApache Airflow
Leadership & Academic Service
Student community leadership and research evaluation
Vice President
UMDBigTh!nk AI
Workshop Area Chair
2026NeurIPS AIDaR · EMNLP GroundLM
Program Committee
2026AAAI/ACM AIES
Selected research
Language-model reasoning, human interaction, and simulated-user evaluation.
Now
Applied ML research at the UMD Child Development Lab, MatrAIx evaluation work, and AI research mentorship.
IN PROGRESS
MatrAIx research & community updates ->UMD Child Development LabMatrAIx EvaluationAI Research Mentorship
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