Pratik Mishra
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About
Who really is Pratik Mishra?
I keep finding new things about myself everyday! Here’s a very teeny tiny jist of what I’ve discovered so far XD
How do we determine the identify of a person?
If it’s by what they do, then I’m a builder at heart. I’m currently a Research Engineer at IBM Research, working at the intersection of AI and IT Operations. Most days, that means trying to teach models to make sense of messy system; and occasionally pretending the systems weren’t messy to begin with.
If it’s by what they like, then I like things that reward curiosity. Robotics. Chess. Good books. Great films. Fun Games. The last game I beat was Ghost of Tsushima, and I keep returning to board games often enough that my friends still reserve the right to call me a nerd. When the allegations get too strong, I switch to FIFA and pretend that helps.
If it’s by what they believe, then I believe the next internet-scale transformers-level technological shift will arrive through physical intelligence; particularly Robotics.
The truth is, I don’t really know who I am yet. So far I’d say I am the amalgamation of what I've built, what I've questioned and all the great people I’ve met who've shaped my thinking; and… I’d love to meet you! Reach out to me by the contact links in the navbar and let's chat :))
Greetings from the both of us!

News
Recent updates
Everything noteworthy that has been happening in my life lately. XD
Presented the research paper NOVAID: Natural-language Observability Visualization Assistant for ITOps Dashboard Widget Generation at AAAI'26 after travelling to the lovely country of Singapore!
Got my first patent application titled 'CUSTOM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MONITORING DASHBOARD ADAPTION' filed at the US Patent office
Moved to Bangalore to work closely with my new team at IBM Research. Delhi, you will be missed :(
Graduated from IIT BHU with a B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering (and multiple awards, including the gymkhana IIT Color awarded to <10 from more than 1500 students!)
Presented the research paper Optimizing Cloud Workloads: Autoscaling with Reinforcement Learning at IEEE CLOUD'24 based on my 2023 internship work with IBM Research
Joined IBM Research in Gurgaon as a Research Software Engineer after receiving a full time return offer post previous year internship due to exemplary performance
Presented our research paper Evaluation of Data Quality Disparity and Implications for Fair Machine Learning at IEEE SANER'26 :)
Presented the research paper NOVAID: Natural-language Observability Visualization Assistant for ITOps Dashboard Widget Generation at AAAI'26 after travelling to the lovely country of Singapore!
Got my first patent application titled 'CUSTOM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MONITORING DASHBOARD ADAPTION' filed at the US Patent office
Moved to Bangalore to work closely with my new team at IBM Research. Delhi, you will be missed :(
Graduated from IIT BHU with a B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering (and multiple awards, including the gymkhana IIT Color awarded to <10 from more than 1500 students!)
Presented the research paper Optimizing Cloud Workloads: Autoscaling with Reinforcement Learning at IEEE CLOUD'24 based on my 2023 internship work with IBM Research
Joined IBM Research in Gurgaon as a Research Software Engineer after receiving a full time return offer post previous year internship due to exemplary performance
Side Quests
Projects and experiments
A small set of side quests that I undertake to quench my curiousity thirst ;)

KhetSetu - Multi-Agent Agricultural Intelligence System
A sophisticated multi-agent multi-modal system for agricultural queries combining weather analysis, climate history, and farming solutions. Inspired by the research paper "AgroAskAI: A Multi-Agentic AI Framework for Supporting Smallholder Farmers' Enquiries Globally".
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3D Interactive Occupancy Map Population using Drones
A ROS package that combines OctoMaps into Hector Quadrotor Drone URDF for efficient octree-based probabilistic mapping of unknown environments. Produces gazebo-visualizable representations from point cloud data in drone's LIDAR ROS topic.
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Supply Chain Optimization by ML-based Package Sizing
Implementation of IIM Ahmedabad research paper "A machine learning approach to solve the E-commerce Box-Sizing Problem". Part of IIT BHU's Gold Medal Winning Presentation at Blue Yonder Supply Chain Event, Inter IIT Tech Meet 10.0 2022.
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Research Papers
A snapshot of my latest research work, know more at google scholar or ->
Evaluation of Data Quality Disparity and Implications for Fair Machine Learning
Authors
Mohit Sharma*, Pratik Mishra*, Sandeep Hans, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Vijay Arya
Mohit Sharma and Pratik Mishra contributed equally to this work.
Abstract
The performance of machine learning (ML) models heavily depends on the quality of the data they are trained on. While prior work often treats data quality as uniform across a dataset, we investigate whether it varies across different population subgroups within a dataset and examine its implications, a phenomenon we refer to as Data Quality Disparity (DQD). Our analysis reveals that many real-world datasets inherently exhibit DQD with underrepresented or marginalized groups...
NOVAID -- Natural-language Observability Visualization Assistant for ITOps Dashboard Widget Generation
Authors
Pratik Mishra, Caner Gözübüyük, Seema Nagar, Prateeti Mohapatra, Raya Wittich, Arthur de Magalhaes
Abstract
Manual creation of IT monitoring dashboard widgets is slow, error-prone, and a barrier for both novice and expert users. We present NOVAID, an interactive chatbot that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate IT monitoring widgets directly from natural language queries. Unlike general natural language–to-visualization tools, NOVAID addresses IT operations–specific challenges -- specialized widget types like SLO charts, dynamic API-driven data retrieval, and complex contextual filters...
Blog
Selected writing
I write when I'm feeling ponderous, creative, anxious... come to think of it, I write when I'm feeling anything. Here's some of my writing
Designing motion that earns its keep
Notes on keeping motion deliberate, subtle, and lightweight inside a static portfolio.
Football, systems, and attention to detail
A short note connecting football, interface rhythm, and systems thinking.
Minimal design still needs a point of view
Why restraint works best when it is intentional.