- 🎓 MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon University (Dec 2027)
- 🔬 Research Assistant @ University of Pittsburgh — spatio-temporal graph models on streaming signals (patent filed, paper under review)
- 🚗 Autonomous Systems @ CMU — perception & evaluation pipelines under Prof. John Dolan
- 🛠️ Open-source contributor to Apple (mlx-lm), Alibaba (Qwen3-TTS), and bitsandbytes
- 🌱 Currently exploring: LLM inference systems, model quantization, and large-scale ML infrastructure
- 📝 Writing on: Medium
- 📫 Reach me: kthakkar2710@gmail.com
- ⚡ Fun fact: I don't just code, I solve problems!
- bitsandbytes — improved numerical stability in the
LLM.int8()quantization path (PR #1985) - Qwen3-TTS — fixed a fine-tuning crash from mismatched embedding widths (PR #336)
- mlx-lm — debugged large-scale LLM inference & MTP checkpoint loading (PRs #1306, #1312)
