Vedang Pandey

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(01) About

Hi, I’m Vedang, currently pursuing an undergrad in Mathematics and Computing at MIT Manipal.

My work so far has spanned machine unlearning, concept erasure, graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, and generative models. I enjoy exploring different areas, experimenting with ideas.

Outside research, I spend a fair amount of time playing chess, scrolling through X, watching F1, and inevitably getting distracted by something interesting.

(02) Experience

  1. May — Jul 2026

    3 months

    AI Research Intern

    IIT Guwahati

    • Built a graph neural network to detect coordinated attacks in 8M+ real IoT packets, then stress-tested it with synthetic attacks and an AI red-team agent.

  2. Apr 2025 — Aug 2026

    17 months

    AI Researcher

    R.U.G.V.E.D. Systems

    • First-authored SPACE (Style Preserving Attribute Constrained Erasure): a method that removes a target concept from Stable Diffusion v1.4 without damaging the rest of the image. Saliency-selected LoRA on cross-attention layers, a dual-anchor teacher and four-view prompts separate concept from style — 12% better FID than UCE, 27% stronger erasure.
    • 2nd of ~350 submissions at Genµ 2.0 (U&ME @ ECCV 2026), solo; ERB 57.33. Leaderboard ↗

(03) Projects

(04) Other contributions & achievements

  1. Runner-up, Genµ 2.0 Concept Unlearning Challenge

    Solo researcher · ~350 submissions · ERB 57.33 · ECCV 2026

  2. Research & ML Head — Manipal Information Security Team (MIST)

    Led research and ML domains, mentored 300+ members

  3. 7th, TechSolstice ’26

    Flagship technical and innovation fest · MIT Bengaluru

  4. Top 50 / 400, H7CTF 2025

    Capture the flag · 400 teams

  5. 12th / 120, CryptIT CTF

    Capture the flag · 120 teams

  6. Captain, MIT Chess Team

    Training, tournament strategy and team coordination

  7. 2× Gold, MAHE Inter-College Championship

    Captain · 1st of 16 colleges

  8. Ex-professional chess player

    Peak 2200 on Chess.com

(05) Contact

Open to research collaborations, work, or just chatter in general.

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