A remarkable achievement has been made by Huma Abia Kanta, a 16-year-old student from Royal Global School in Guwahati, Assam. She recently presented her research paper at the “Advancement and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” International Scientific-Practical Conference, held on October 30-31, 2025, in hybrid format at Nakhchivan State University in Azerbaijan.
Her paper, titled “ML-Based Prediction of Phycocyanin Purity,” investigates how machine-learning models can accurately predict the purity levels of phycocyanin, a pigment essential for sustainable bio-resource industries. In her study, Huma compared six different regression models, including Linear, Ridge, SVR, Random Forest, and XGBoost. Her findings revealed that her model achieved a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.058, significantly surpassing the standard laboratory deviation of 0.31.
This achievement positions Huma as one of the youngest Indian researchers to contribute to an international forum dedicated to AI and machine learning. Following the conference”s publishing policy, her work is set to be published in reputable international journals indexed in Scopus.
In addition to this presentation, Huma has authored another paper titled “Seq2Seq Reconstruction of Sanskrit Phonology via Tang-Era Siddham-Hanzi Transliteration: A Buddhist-Lexicon-Inspired Encoder-Decoder Model with Luong Attention,” which has been accepted for presentation at RegICON 2025, a regional conference on natural language processing organized by Gauhati University and Assam Skill University later this month.
Huma has also co-authored three additional research papers currently under peer review. She is the founder and lead developer of “desicodes,” an educational startup that is creating asPy, an Assamese-Python transpiler designed to facilitate coding in local languages and broaden access to computer science education in Northeast India.
Her commitment to blending technology with local culture is further exemplified through her collaboration with Dr. Purnima Devi Barman and the “Hargila Army,” which focuses on digitizing motifs of the endangered Greater Adjutant Stork for traditional handloom saris.
Expressing her gratitude for the support she has received, Huma remarked, “I owe this milestone to my mentor, Dr. Ankur Pan Saikia, and to Dr. Arup Kr. Mukhopadhyay, Director of Royal Global School, for their constant guidance.”
