Heyyy there! I’m a research scholar at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati under the supervision of Dr. Ayon Borthakur. I explore the fascinating intersection of brains and machines—building systems that not only think but adapt. My work focuses on Brain Inspired Efficient Continual Learning - shaping AI to evolve just like we do.

When I’m not training machines to be a little more human, you’ll find me painting walls into stories or swimming my way through ideas.

Email: n.vaishnavi@iitg.ac.in

• CATFormer: When Continual Learning Meets Spiking Transformers With Dynamic Thresholds
  Vaishnavi Nagabhushana and Kartikay Agrawal and Ayon Borthakur
  Proceedings of the First Workshop on NeuroAI Multimodal Intelligence @ AAAI 2026, 2026 — Link
  
  
• A Second-Order Spiking{SSM} for Wearables
  Kartikay Agrawal and Abhijeet Vikram and Vedant Sharma and Vaishnavi Nagabhushana and Ayon Borthakur
  NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health, 2025 — Link
  
  

• Aug 2024 – Present: Research Scholar at SustainAI Lab , IIT Guwahati
• Jan 2024 – Jul 2024: Machine Learning Intern, Google Research Sponsored Mentorship Program (exploreCSR 2023–24), IIT Roorkee
• 2020 – 2024: B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, under VTU