Dikshant Sagar
Graduate Reseacher
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolDikshant Sagar is a Ph.D. student and machine learning researcher at UC Irvine with 8 years of experience developing and deploying deep learning systems across healthcare, drug discovery, physics, and scientific AI. He has authored 9+ peer-reviewed papers and earned distinctions like an ACM-BCB Best Paper Finalist and a UCI Research Fellowship for work that translates research into real-world impact. His projects span fine-tuning large vision-language models for neutrino event analysis, physics-guided generative models for ligand design, and sparsity-aware models for computational microscopy, all demonstrating consistent gains in accuracy and efficiency. Comfortable with large-scale model training and distributed GPU optimization, he is proficient in PyTorch, Hugging Face, DeepSpeed, and CUDA and has end-to-end experience from research to deployment. Beyond research, he has teaching and peer-review experience and a track record of collaborations with industry partners such as NVIDIA, highlighting an ability to bridge academic rigor with practical engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at California State University, Los AngelesHigh School, Science and Computer Science, High School, Science and Computer Science at Seth Anandram Jaipuria SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, DelhiUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (87)
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deep-learning9
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computer-vision8
object-detection8
django8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dikshantsagar/dikshantsagar.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 122 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
dikshantsagar/PAI-BPR
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 8 months
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