Owais Makroo

I build AI systems that live between clean math and messy production, thinking about privacy, robustness, machine unlearning, and training dynamics.

Research

Work at the intersection of privacy, robustness, training dynamics, and large-scale learning systems.

ReSuMe: Retriever-Summarizer Mutual Enhancement via Reinforcement Learning

The Web Conference (WWW) 2026

The Hidden Cost of Modeling P(x): Membership Inference Attacks in Generative Text Classifiers

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop · TMLR Extended Version (Under Review)

SALSA: A Secure, Adaptive and Label-Agnostic Scalable Algorithm for Machine Unlearning

UAI 2025

Enhanced Identification of Pheochromocytoma and Paragangliomas' Genetic Clusters from CT

SPIE Medical Imaging 2025

Detecting Dataset Outliers via Training Dynamics Clustering

UAI 2026 (Under Review)

Multi-Headed Deep Feature Learning for Genetic Clusters Identification from CT

Biomedical Signal Processing & Control (Under Review)

Experience

A progression through scale, research depth, and production responsibility.

Writing

Explorations in representation learning, philosophy, and the mechanics of modern neural networks.

The Memory Erase Button: Identity, Responsibility, and the Value of Suffering

Not a question of pain, but of authorship, what we choose to erase may be the very thing that wrote us.

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The Quiet Tension Between Generations: On Advice, Independence, and the Paths We Choose

The tension between generations is not simply about disagreement; it is the quiet negotiation between preserving the meaning of the past and allowing the future to unfold differently.

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The Limits of Kindness: Understanding Goodness Through Dostoevsky's The Idiot

A philosophical exploration of compassion without boundaries, examining Prince Myshkin as a study of whether pure kindness can survive within flawed social structures.

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Things I've Built

Systems and tools designed to explore ideas deeply and make them usable.

SALSA Unlearning Library

Unified framework for scalable machine unlearning with multiple baselines.

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SIREN - Explainable AI Framework

Interpretability framework for detecting AI-generated images.

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LoRA for Vision Transformers

Lightweight adaptation framework for Vision Transformers using LoRA

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Beyond Research

Resilience, and long-form thinking; Shaped outside the lab.

Strength & Athletics

Mountains & Water

Creative Work