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Portfolio · 2026
JOHAN S VARUGHESE.

Civic-tech innovator behind India's first AI-powered election intelligence platform. IET Chairperson & Kerala THRIVE State Lead. Final-year CS & AI undergraduate at MBCET.

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About

Building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI research & real-world impact.

Federated Learning Multi-Agent Systems Full-Stack Dev Swarm Robotics Civic Tech UAV / Drone Systems Differential Privacy SMPC
Education
B.Tech – Computer Science & Engineering (AI)
Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Technology
APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University · 2023 – 2027
Data Structures · ML · Deep Learning · AI · Robotics · OS
Senior Secondary XII & Secondary X, CBSE
Navajeevan Bethany Vidyalaya, Thiruvananthapuram
2023 · 2021
English
Fluent
Malayalam
Native
Tamil
Native
Hindi
Conversational
Experience
Dec 2025 — Present
Chairperson
IET MBCET Student Chapter · South Asia Region
Lead technical events, inter-collegiate collaborations, and innovation programs across South Asia.
Leadership Read More ↗
May 2026 — Present
Program Lead – THRIVE Initiative
Kerala State · MBCET Chapter
Statewide social impact program connecting tribal youth with technology education across Kerala.
Social Impact Read More ↗
May 2025 — Nov 2025
Digital Communication & Media Design Intern
Thiruvananthapuram District Administration, GoK
Designed & deployed NammadeVote — India's first AI-powered election intelligence platform.
Civic Tech · AI Read More ↗
Dec 2024 — Jan 2025
Full-Stack Developer Intern (MERN)
ICT Academy of Kerala
Built production-grade RESTful web modules using React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
Full-Stack Read More ↗
Jan 2026
Core Coordinator & Technical Lead
Nexora '26 – All Kerala ISTE Student State Convention
Directed full technical track planning and logistics for statewide engineering convention.
Convention Read More ↗
Jan 2026
Core Coordinator
NIT Calicut · MeitY National Bootcamp
Designed & delivered UAV/UAS training curriculum at MeitY-funded national bootcamp.
Drone · UAV Read More ↗
Organisations I've Worked With
Projects
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NammadeVote
India's first AI-powered election intelligence platform featuring live queue intelligence, AI voter assistance, and constituency-level access. Statewide media recognition.
Python · MERN Stack · Gemini APIs · Real-Time Queue Intelligence
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GeoTrust-FL
Geometry-driven FL security framework detecting malicious updates via temporal low-rank subspace tracking and spectral dynamics.
Streaming PCA · JL Projections · Spectral Dynamics
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SwarmNet-Edge
Federated RL framework for multi-drone coordination with consensus algorithms enabling decentralised task allocation in GPS-denied environments.
Federated RL · ROS2 · MAVLink · Multi-Agent
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CollectiveOS
MARL framework for institutional reasoning, governance adaptation, and cooperative decision-making under partial observability.
MARL · Custom Gymnasium Envs · Governance Policy
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MedShield & FlareWatch
Hybrid CNN+BiLSTM+Attention architecture in a federated framework for privacy-preserving distributed medical imaging prediction.
CNN · BiLSTM · Attention · Federated Learning
Research Papers
↗ Under Review · Preprint Available
Steering Vectors Break Sparse Autoencoder Decomposition: Formal Bounds, Distribution Drift Metrics, and a Manifold-Constrained Correction
ICMLA 2026 · Main Track · Anonymous Submission
We show that activation steering systematically displaces representations outside the SAE training manifold, causing decomposition quality to degrade through three structurally distinct failure modes. Introduces Distribution-Aware Steering (DAS) with a closed-form OOD-reduction guarantee. Validated on a controlled benchmark reproducible in 22s on CPU.
Sparse Autoencoders Activation Steering Mechanistic Interpretability OOD Detection LLM Safety
↗ Under Review · Preprint Available
Characterizing Bias Interactions in LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation: A Factorial Analysis with the Bias Interaction Coefficient
Under Review · Blind Submission · Pre-registered at OSF
First 2³ factorial analysis of bias interactions in LLM judge evaluation. Proves sequential single-bias correction leaves residual bias 4.4× the null baseline when position and verbosity biases interact (BICpv = 1.90, p < 0.001). Introduces the Bias Interaction Coefficient as a cross-judge diagnostic.
LLM Evaluation Positional Bias Verbosity Bias Factorial Design Bias Interaction
↗ Under Review · Preprint Available
Optimization Trajectory Geometry and Spectral Dynamics for Early Detection of Adversarial Training Attacks
ICMLA 2026 · Main Track · Anonymous Submission
OTSD — a lightweight online framework detecting adversarial training attacks via trajectory curvature geometry and Hessian spectral dynamics. Mean AUROC 0.823 (+7.3pts over best baseline), 18-step median detection latency, and <4% wall-clock overhead on ResNet-18. Validated over 10 random seeds across CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, TinyImageNet and two architectures.
Adversarial Attacks Optimization Geometry Spectral Analysis AI Security Online Detection
Technical Skills
AI / Machine Learning
PyTorch / TensorFlow
Federated Learning
Multi-Agent RL
NLP / LLMs
Differential Privacy / SMPC
Programming
Python
JavaScript
Java
SQL / Bash
Full-Stack
React.js
Node.js / Express
MongoDB / REST APIs
Streamlit / HTML+CSS
Cloud & DevOps
AWS
Docker
Git / GitHub
Linux
Achievements
Best Organizer Award – IET Kanyakumari Local Network
Recognized for outstanding contribution to the student technical community.
2025
Media Recognition – NammadeVote
Statewide coverage across print, broadcast and digital media for civic AI innovation.
2025
IET South Asia Region Marketing Committee Member
Active contributor to regional strategy and engineering outreach across South Asia.
Dec 2025–
IET Global Member Research Group Committee Member
Participating in international engineering research initiatives at the global IET level.
Dec 2025–
Certifications
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Drone/UAS Technologies Bootcamp – NIT Calicut (MeitY)↗
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AWS Solutions Architecture – Amazon Job Simulation↗
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Cisco Introduction to IoT – Cisco Networking Academy↗
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EY Climate Change & Sustainability – EY Job Simulation↗
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Accenture Software Engineering – Accenture Job Simulation↗
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CARESTACK BRIDGE Program – Industry Readiness↗
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Email
mail2joshvarkey@gmail.com
Phone
+91-8921954342
LinkedIn
in/johan-s-varughese
GitHub
github.com/johanvarughese
Location
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Status
Available for opportunities
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