Sunil Tyagi, PhD

Projects

Current work and proposals

Work delivered through Oravont Systems LLP — national AI challenges, Navy programmes, academic collaboration, and open research artifacts.

Capability overview (PDF)
National-security AI challenge

Underwater Acoustic Event Detection & Vessel Re-identification — NCIIPC AI Grand Challenge (PS12)

End-to-end deep-learning system for underwater acoustic event detection, multi-class classification and vessel re-identification, operating directly on raw passive-sonar waveforms through a learned, multi-scale selective-kernel front end. Delivered strong, well-calibrated classification across acoustically diverse classes under India’s national-security AI Grand Challenge (NCIIPC / Startup India).

SKANN: selective-kernel acoustic neural network architecture, raw waveform to classification PS12: underwater acoustic event detection and classification work sample
SKANN selective-kernel front end (left) and the PS12 detection & classification task (right).

Oravont Systems · 2025 — present · Active

iDEX · Ministry of Defence

Automated Vessel Recognition from Passive Sonar — iDEX DISC5, Challenge 10 (Indian Navy, UDA)

Technical partner building the deep-learning core for automated recognition of vessels from passive-sonar signatures: compact acoustic fingerprints enabling match-or-flag-as-new decisions, designed for in-house, frozen-model deployment with no data egress and no retraining.

DISC5: vessel re-identification from acoustic fingerprints work sample

Open documentation — disc5-training: model architecture, training methodology and evaluation protocol · disc5-reid: the enrolment and identification application.

Oravont Systems · Indian Navy, Underwater Domain Awareness · Active

Academic collaboration

Propagation-Robust Acoustic Vessel Re-identification (with IIT Delhi; DRDO/NSTL programme)

Research collaboration in formation with IIT Delhi extending acoustic vessel re-identification through deep metric learning and physics-based acoustic-propagation modelling, in association with a DRDO/NSTL programme.

Propagation-robust acoustic vessel re-identification concept illustration

Oravont Systems · with IIT Delhi · In formation

Generative AI · iDEX

ShaktiVarta.AI — Generative AI for Naval Design Knowledge

LLM + retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) solution for knowledge extraction in naval design and construction, submitted as Principal Investigator under iDEX open challenges.

ShaktiVarta.AI: generative AI for naval design knowledge

Oravont Systems · Principal Investigator · Under evaluation

Acoustic stealth · iDEX

Active Noise Control Silencer for Submarine Exhaust (CMAC-based)

iDEX proposal for an Active Noise Control silencer for submarine exhaust using CMAC-based control — a direct acoustic-stealth application.

Oravont Systems · Principal Investigator · Under evaluation