Aditya Chawla
Early Career • Open to New Grad Opportunities (May 2026) — AI/ML Engineer • Software Engineer

Building Agentic LLM Systems, Autonomous Perception, and Production ML.

M.S. Artificial Intelligence @ San José State University (CGPA 3.9/4.0). I build end-to-end ML systems: agentic LLM products (RAG, evaluation, guardrails), autonomous driving pipelines (detection + trajectory forecasting), and quantitative ML for finance, with strong fundamentals in classic ML, deep learning, and data engineering.

LLMs RAG & Agents ML Fundamentals Deep Learning Autonomous Driving Trajectory Forecasting Object Detection Reinforcement Learning

Highlights

  • Improved system performance by 40% at Amdocs using GenAI/ML frameworks.
  • Modernized SJSU's Student Information System, impacting 10,000 students annually.
  • Built computer vision tools adopted by researchers at UC Berkeley and IIT Delhi.
  • Qualcomm Engineering Scholarship recipient, based in San Jose, CA.

Education

San José State University — M.S. Artificial Intelligence

San Jose, CA • CGPA: 3.9/4.0

Aug 2024 – May 2026

Coursework: Machine Learning, NLP, ML on Graphs, Math for Data Science, AI & Data Engineering, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Systems

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology — B.E. Electronics and Computer Engineering

Patiala, India • CGPA: 8.4/10

Aug 2019 – Jun 2023

Experience

Industry + university roles with measurable impact across software engineering, data pipelines, and process modernization.

Graduate Assistant

San Jose State University, San Jose

March 2025 - May 2026
  • • Led the transformation of SJSUs SIS by migrating legacy COBOL/Crystal reports to modern XML-based transcript generation system to increase operational efficiency impacting 10,000 students annually.
  • • Drove the Office of the Registrar chatbots accessibility and user experience by translated SME insights from high-volume student queries (~3K–10K/month) into structured conversational flows and fallback ticketing.
  • • Supporting data analysis, documentation and process optimization within SJSU’s Student Information System. Processing student degree exception requests within SJSU’s Student Information System, developed process documentation for data analysis, training associates and streamline onboarding.
Data Analysis Data Visualization User Research Oracle PeopleSoft Process Optimization GenAIOps MLOps

Software Engineering Associate

Amdocs, Gurugram

July 2023 – June 2024
  • • Leveraged Generative AI and machine learning frameworks to address a bottleneck in the Quotation system, resulting in a performance improvement of 40% as part of the invoicing team for the Amdocs Real-Time Billing application.
  • • Transitioned the legacy codebase to C++11 standard, which improved performance by 20% and reduced lines of code.
  • • Owned the data engineering pipeline using PL/SQL scripts in oracle SQL developer for complex database operations and created custom UNIX scripts to automate secure retrieval of PII data from end users for Amdocs proprietary application.
C++ SQL DBMS PL/SQL UNIX Shell Scripting DevOps PySpark Git Data Pipelines CI/CD Backend SDLC ERP

Software Developer Intern

3rditech, IIT Delhi

Jan 2023 – June 2023
  • • Delivered machine vision application with the EBUS Software Development Kit, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) and C++ to optimize data delivery between host applications and vision standard-compliant imaging devices.
  • • Implemented image acquisition, processing, and analysis algorithms like CLAHE to extract meaningful information from high-performance imaging devices such as GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, and GenICam.
  • • These applications are actively used by researchers, engineers and developers at UC Berkeley and IIT Delhi for real-time image processing and live camera feed analysis.
EBUS SDK C/C++ Tkinter Pillow Pandas Numpy Keras Image Processing Algorithms Computer Vision Python

Awards & Certifications

Scholarships, hackathon recognition, and professional certifications across AI, data, and business intelligence.

Qualcomm Engineering Scholarship

San José State University, College of Engineering

2025

Awarded to a select group of engineering graduate students at SJSU in recognition of academic merit and technical potential.

Cyrano Hackathon — Winner

First place

Sep 2026

Won first place at the Cyrano Hackathon. The winning project was pushed to the organizer's private repository.

Licenses & Certifications

Google Project Management Professional Certificate

Google • Issued Aug 2026

Credential ID: TFQDR4Y6JO0I

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Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate (v.2)

Google • Issued Jul 2026

Credential ID: WJTW4TFVSNEB

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Google AI Essentials Specialization

Google • Issued Jul 2026

Credential ID: KFBB5VB3ZMQZ

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Google AI Professional Certificate

Google • Issued Jul 2026

Credential ID: 6IDUH62H295M

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Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate

Google • Issued Jul 2026

Credential ID: RVFJERIC8E8G

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Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader

Microsoft • Issued Jul 2026

Credential ID: C2E79312F706BE59

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Selected Projects

Modern, production-oriented systems across agentic AI, RAG, graph ML, autonomous prediction, and quantitative finance.

AgenticBI — AI-Powered BI Copilot Platform

Jan 2026 – Present
  • • Architected a BI-tool-agnostic event-driven AI copilot enabling multimodal (voice and text) interaction with business data, automating end-to-end BI workflows — query generation, execution, dashboarding, and insight explanation.
  • • Using a multi-agent LangGraph microservice system with self-correcting LLM feedback loops, MCP server for API-based tool orchestration, GraphRAG retrieval for schema-aware context grounding, and a Whisper-powered voice-input pipeline. Designed layered guardrails for prompt injection defence and secure SQL execution.
SLM Agentsllama-3.3Qwen-32BGroqMCPA2AChromaDBVizroLangChainLangGraphDockerGit

LLM Advisor – Trust-Based Model Recommender for Open-Source LLMs

Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
  • • Built a two-stage parallel evaluation and scoring pipeline that profiles open-source LLMs: Llama‑3 8B, Qwen 2.5 7B, Kimi K2 on toxicity, bias, truthfulness, and safety to generate reproducible trustworthiness profiles for ethical AI deployment.
  • • Developed an LLM-powered advisor using Mixtral‑8x7B that ingests model profiles and user priorities to recommend suitable LLMs, explaining trade-offs between safety, fairness, and factual reliability for real-world deployments.
Groq-hosted LLMsHuggingFace DatasetsDetoxifysentence-transformersStreamlitPlotlyPython

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management

Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
  • • Developed a three-tier Hierarchical RL system for multi-asset portfolio optimization, integrating market data and Reddit sentiment to achieve stronger risk-adjusted returns and reduced drawdowns across 3 years of back testing.
  • • Trained and aggregated SAC, PPO, DDPG, and TD3 agents on FinBERT sentiment and Yahoo Finance pipelines, combining them through meta- and super-agent layers to outperform equal-weighted and single-agent baselines.
PyTorchgymnasiumstable-baselines3transformersFinBERTyFinanceReddit APIdata preprocessing

Hardware-Accelerated LLM Inference Engine

Oct 2025 – Dec 2025
  • • Built an optimized inference runtime for Llama-3-8B utilizing TensorRT-LLM, applying W8A8 PTQ via NVIDIA AMMO to measure a 52% reduction in memory footprint, enabling high-throughput deployment on 40GB NVIDIA A100 GPU.
  • • Replaced native PyTorch attention mechanisms by compiling the engine with FlashAttention-2 and paged KV cache enabled, optimizing memory fragmentation to increase the maximum concurrent batch size by 3x.
  • • Profiled the C++ runtime execution utilizing NVIDIA Nsight Systems to identify and minimize CPU-GPU kernel dispatch overhead, achieving a throughput of 85 tokens/sec, a 2.1x performance increase compared to a baseline vLLM FP16.
C++CUDATensorRT-LLMNVIDIA AMMOFlashAttention-2NVIDIA NsightvLLMPost-Training Quantization

Graph-of-Thought Trajectory Prediction with LightEMMA

June 2025 – Aug 2025
  • • Integrated Graph-of-Thought reasoning into the LightEMMA Vision- Language-Model trajectory prediction framework, adding multi-intent generation, branch scoring, and refinement to improve motion forecasting quality on nuScenes dataset compared to Chain-of-Thought baselines using Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Google Gemini Flash 2.0.
Vision-Language ModelsTransformersHugging FacenuScenes DevKitOpenCVSciPyScikit-learn

Real-Time Edge Perception Pipeline

Aug 2025 - Oct 2025
  • • Accelerated a PointPillars 3D object detection model for a 15W NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano by exporting to ONNX and compiling an FP16 TensorRT engine, achieving a 3.4x inference latency speedup over an ONNX Runtime baseline.
  • • Engineered a native C++ multithreaded preprocessing pipeline utilizing a 4-worker thread pool to execute LiDAR point cloud voxelization concurrently, reducing CPU-bound data preparation latency by 55%.
  • • Designed a zero-copy memory architecture using CUDA pinned memory to eliminate redundant CPU-GPU data transfers, sustaining end-to-end latency of 31ms, 32 FPS: 8ms voxelization, 19ms inference, 4ms NMS post-processing.
C++TensorRTCUDAPOSIX ThreadsONNXPointPillars3D Object DetectionLiDAR VoxelizationMultithreading

VectorNet – Graph-Based Trajectory Forecasting

Jan 2025 – May 2025
  • • Implemented VectorNet: a two-stage Graph Neural Network (GNN) for motion prediction in autonomous driving using the Argoverse 1.0 dataset, involving both local polyline-based SubGraphs and global self-attention modules.
  • • Performed hand-crafted feature extraction from raw CSVs and constructed per-scenario graph datasets for ego agent, lane, and surrounding objects; visualized and evaluated trajectory predictions against ground truth.
PyTorch GeometricGNNGraph AttentionArgoversePyTorchPickleNetworkXCondaJupyterPython

BioMedRAG - Real-Time Retrieval and Generation for Biomedical Data

Jan 2025 – Feb 2025
  • • Engineered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system integrating BioGPT – a finetuned large language model with NCBI Entrez - data hub for biomedical question answering, achieving an accuracy of 78% on PubMedQA dataset a 2% improvement over the state-of-the-art BioGPT—alongside a peak batch accuracy of 81.5% during evaluation.
RAGLLMGradioTransformersHugging FaceCUDATensorflowNLTKscikit-learnsacremosesPython

Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

Sep–Oct 2025

Trained Faster R-CNN and YOLOv8 on Waymo and mixed Waymo+KITTI datasets with unified 3-class taxonomy; improved cross-dataset consistency and mAP.

  • • Faster R-CNN: tighter boxes + better occlusion handling.
  • • YOLOv8: ~3× faster inference with strong accuracy.
CUDAYOLOv8Faster R-CNNWaymoKITTI

Fingentic — Agentic Financial AI Assistant

May–Jun 2025

Agentic platform for non-technical users to explore company financials, stock prices & trends via text + voice, delivering insights with charts, tables, and cited summaries.

  • • LangChain + LangGraph tool orchestration, SQL generation, web search fallback, guardrails & transparent citations.
  • • Realtime APIs + voice workflow (Whisper) for conversational finance UX.
LangGraphGemma-27BSQLiteGradioyFinanceGuardrails

Capstone project: Skin Cancer AI, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
  • • Built a portable real-time AI Device to distinguish between benign and malignant Skin Cancers by Finetuning MobileNet V2 model achieving 94.2% accuracy on the final prototype orchestrated using Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, Raspberry Pi 3b+ and a camera module for early detection of skin cancer in remote areas with limited healthcare access.
TensorFlowKerasPandasOpenCVNumPyCNNTransfer LearningFrozen GraphAI on the Edge

More Repositories

Learning repositories with algorithms implemented from scratch.

Skills

Full technical breadth across languages, ML/DL, LLM systems, autonomous perception, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure.

Languages

PythonC++CSQLPL/SQLRShell ScriptingTypeScriptJavaScriptMake files

ML & Deep Learning

PyTorchPyTorch GeometricTensorFlowKerasCNNsRNNsTransformersVLMsTransfer LearningAnomaly DetectionSupervised/Unsupervised LearningTime-Series ForecastingRecommender SystemsSVDNCF

LLMs, Agents & NLP

Agentic AI SystemsAI AgentsMulti-Agent OrchestrationRAGGraphRAGMCPA2AGuardrailsPrompt EngineeringLangChainLangGraphHugging FaceVector DatabasesKnowledge GraphsWhisperNLTKsacremosesSentence Transformer

LLM Models & Platforms

OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeGoogle GeminiLlama-3.3Qwen-32BQwen 2.5Gemma-27BMixtralKimi K2BioGPTFinBERTGroqTogether AI

Computer Vision

PointPillarsSECONDFaster R-CNNYOLOv8MobileNet V2OpenCVOpen3DMMDetection3DLiDAR & Point Cloud ProcessingEBUS SDKCLAHE

Autonomous Systems & Datasets

Trajectory PredictionMotion Forecasting2D & 3D Object DetectionGraph-of-ThoughtGNNsVectorNetLightEMMAKITTIWaymonuScenesCOCOArgoverseArgoverse DevKit

Reinforcement Learning

DQNPPODDPGTD3SACHierarchical RLMulti-Agent RLgymnasiumstable-baselines3

Data Science & Evaluation

Data CleaningPre-processingEDAFeature EngineeringStatistical AnalysisHypothesis TestingA/B TestingBack TestingAblation StudyRMSEMAEF1 ScorePrecision@kRecall@kAccuracyROC-AUCToxicityBiasSafetyDetoxify

Data Engineering

PySparkHadoopETL PipelinesData ValidationData ModelingData Pipelines

Backend, Cloud & DevOps

AWSAmazon S3EC2Amazon BedrockAWS LambdaDynamoDBECSAuroraAzureGoogle CloudLoad BalancerFastAPIREST APIsMicroservicesReactNode.jsDockerGitGitHubCI/CD

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLOracle SQL DeveloperSQLiteMongoDBChromaDB

Systems & Edge AI

Linux/UNIXCUDAHPCSlurmIntel Movidius NCSRaspberry PiAI on the EdgeOracle PeopleSoftPeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Tools & Visualization

NumPyPandasScikit-learnSciPyMatplotlibSeabornPlotlyStreamlitGradioVizroCondaPillowNetworkX

Product & Business

Stakeholder ManagementBusiness IntelligenceRisk ManagementData Governance & ObservabilityProduct Go-to-Market StrategyCross-Functional CollaborationAgile/ScrumSuccess Metrics & KPI

Let’s connect

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