🎤 Talks

Few of my talks and presentations.

I like to frequently attend conferences, meetups, devsprints and workshops. I love to give talks as it’s an opportunity for me to connect with interesting people from across the world.

These are the list of talks I have delivered:

• How I ended up maintaining a python package with 1M+ downloads? | Kochi FOSS Meetup | April 26, 2025 | Slides, Talk Page

• Why having a great taste is all you need to build great open-source projects | Code Blossom Online Session | June 22, 2024 | Slides

• Reproducing Whisper-style Training Using an open-source toolkit and publicly available Data | AI4Bharat Paper Reading Group | May 11, 2024 | Slides

• Vistaar - Diverse Benchmarks and Training Sets for Indian Language ASR | AI4Bharat Paper Reading Group | April 26, 2024 | Slides

• LLM 101 Workshop: Beginner session on LLM | FOSSMEET 2024- NIT Calicut | March 24, 2024 | Workshop Materials, Kurian Slides, Live Demo Website

• OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do finetuning demonstrated on my Mother tongue | Pycon India, 2023 - Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. | October 1, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do fine-tuning demonstrated on my mother-tongue | FOSS Meetup Kochi - KeyValue, Smart Kochi. | June 24, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• AI with Malayalam Computing | DebUtsav - Govt. Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara. | June 17, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• OpenAI Whisper’s amazing power to do fine-tuning demonstrated on Malayalam (Oral Presentation) | Summit 23 - IIIT Kottayam | June 10, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• Vegam Whisper Family of Models and demoing Malayalam Speech to Text (Demo Presentation) | Summit 23 - IIIT Kottayam | June 10, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do finetuning | FOSSASIA Summit - Life Long Learning Institue, Singapore | April 15, 2023 | Slides, Talk Page

• Malayalam Projects I am working at the moment | Delft-fastai Meetup | May 28, 2023 | Slides, Talk page

• Demystifying Async & Await in Python & JavaScript | Pycon India | September 19, 2021 | Slides

• Machine Learning Models and Dataset Versioning | Pycon India - Chennai Trade Center ,Chennai | October 13, 2019 | Slides

• Project Showcase - ToonIt project | Tensorflow UserGroup India Summit 2020 | September 6, 2020 | Slides

• At the Eye of Flood - Keralarescue.in | FOSSASIA Summit - Life Long Learning Institue, Singapore | March 17, 2019 | Slides

• Pitfalls, Glamour and Valuable advice from an AI/ML Expert | Innovate At MEC Podcast | 7th January, 2021

• Introduction to Datascience and ML (Human Library)| Kochi FOSS | Govt. Model Engineering College | October 15, 2022

• Expert Interaction Sessions | St Peters VHSS, Kolenchery, Kolenchery | 2022 | Joy of Programming Slides, ML and Learning CS in real-world

• Tinkerhub Learning class- Python for beginners | February-March, 2020

• Introduction to Django2 | Kochi Python Meetiup | July 07, 2018 | Slides