AuraX
AI Researcher & CTO·Hyderabad, India·Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
What I did
- Co-founded AuraX, a fashion-tech startup funded by IIIT-Hyderabad's CIE incubator.
- Led research on diffusion models for virtual try-on (VTO), achieving quality that outperformed Google, Stable Diffusion, and leading Indian startups in benchmark comparisons.
- Signed commercial deals with Aditya Birla Fashion Group and multiple brands under Mensa Brands.
- Built the backend and deployment infrastructure on AWS and ShaktiCloud, and tuned inference latency for production.
- Wound the company down as bigger players entered the space and our runway ran short.
Research
Conflict-Aware Adapter Composition (C-AAC)
Computer Vision · Completed
Outperforms base Flux, Imagen 4, and ChatGPT in skin quality and aesthetic appeal.
Read the full write-up →Flux-VTON+: Hybrid Flux Inpainting and Multi-LoRA Expert Fusion
Generative AI · Completed
State-of-the-art VTON pipeline synergizing Flux Fill and Redux with Multi-LoRA Fusion, achieving an 85% success rate on complex garments.
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