📚 Publications & Research

📝 Research Papers

Under Review

FinNLP 2025 Workshop (EMNLP)

Status: Paper under review
Conference: Financial Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2025
Research Focus: Financial reasoning models and document processing

🏆 Competition Wins & Datasets

PersonalFinance_v2 Dataset

🥇 First Prize - Reasoning Datasets Competition 2025

Organizers: Bespoke Labs, HuggingFace & Together.AI
Achievement: First place winner in prestigious reasoning dataset creation competition
Impact: 23 likes, 7.04k rows, actively used by the AI community
DOI: doi:10.57967/hf/5234
License: Apache-2.0

✍️ Technical Writing & Blog Posts

NeuroNuts Blog (neuronuts.in)

Founder and Primary Author

Technical AI and ML content focusing on:

Practical machine learning implementations
Dataset creation methodologies
Model optimization techniques
Educational content for ML practitioners

Medium Publications

181 Followers | Published on Towards AI

🎓 Academic Research

Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Affiliate - Financial Services Innovation Lab August 2025 - Present

Research Focus:

US finance corpora curation
High-quality financial QA pairs with explicit chain-of-thought
Generalized financial reasoning models
Ablation studies across dataset-difficulty bands and model scales

IIT Kharagpur Undergraduate Research

“Impact of Social Engagement on Crowdfunding Campaigns” August 2022 - April 2023

Advisor: Dr. Swagato Chatterjee, COEAI, IITKGP

Research Methodology:

Identifying characteristics that inspire social media users to participate in crowdfunding campaigns
Analyzing relationship between social media engagement and funds raised
Uncovering motivating factors connecting social engagement to funding success

Duration: 9 months of intensive research Outcome: Comprehensive analysis of social media’s impact on crowdfunding success

📊 Research Impact

HuggingFace Contributions

5 Published Models in the Kuvera series
8+ Datasets with specialized focus on financial reasoning
400+ Total Downloads across models and datasets
70+ Community Likes demonstrating research value

Open Source Research Tools

Build Your Own Transformer (BYOT): Educational repository for transformer architecture
HF-TIMM Benchmarks: Expanded benchmarking suite for vision models
RAG Paper Retrieval: Simple system for ML paper discovery

🎯 Research Interests

Primary Areas:

Financial AI & FinTech: Behavior-aware personal finance language models
Reasoning Systems: Chain-of-thought dataset creation and model training
Production ML: Efficient, scalable AI systems for enterprise deployment
Multimodal AI: Vision-language models for document processing

Emerging Interests:

Domain-Specific LLMs: Building specialized models for vertical applications
Efficient AI: Single-GPU deployment and model optimization
AI Safety: Dependable AI-ML systems for financial applications

📈 Citation & Recognition

Competition Recognition:

🥇 First Place Winner - Reasoning Dataset Creation Competition 2025
🏆 Finalist - Perfios IdeaFest 2024-25 for innovative healthcare concept

Academic Achievements:

Scholarship Recipient - Udacity-AWS AI & ML program
Research Affiliate - Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab

Community Impact:

PersonalFinance_v2 dataset widely adopted by AI community
Kuvera models reaching 3,000+ downloads in first month
Technical content helping thousands of ML practitioners

🔮 Upcoming Publications

In Progress:

FinNLP 2025 workshop paper (under review)
Research on efficient financial reasoning models
Methodology papers on dataset creation for domain-specific AI

Planned Research:

Comprehensive study on single-GPU deployment optimization
Analysis of reasoning capabilities in financial domain models
Collaborative research on AI safety in financial applications

For collaboration opportunities, research partnerships, or questions about any publications, please contact me.

Akhil Theerthala