Aditya Chawla
Seeking New Grad roles (May 2026) — AI/ML Engineer • Software Engineer

AI/ML Engineer for LLMs & Agentic Systems, Autonomous Driving, and Production ML.

M.S. Artificial Intelligence @ San José State University (CGPA 3.85/4.0). 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
San Jose, CAadityachawla08@gmail.com

Highlights

  • Qualcomm Engineering Scholarship recipient.
  • Software Engineering Associate @ Amdocs — improved system performance by 40% using GenAI/ML.
  • Modernized SJSU SIS impacting 10000 students anually.
  • Built computer vision tools used by researchers/engineers at UC Berkley and IIT Delhi.

Experience

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

Graduate Assistant

San José State University • San Jose, CA

Mar 2025 — Present
  • • Led modernization of SJSU’s SIS by migrating legacy COBOL/Crystal reports to an XML-based transcript generation system to improve operational efficiency impacting 10,000 students annually.
  • • Processed degree exception requests within PeopleSoft Campus Solutions; created process documentation and trained associates to streamline onboarding.
  • • Supported user data management workflows and analysis for student services operations.
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Data Analysis Process Optimization User Data Management

Software Engineering Associate

Amdocs • Gurugram, India

Jul 2023 — Jun 2024
  • • Applied Generative AI + ML frameworks to remove a major bottleneck in the Quotation system, improving performance by 40% (invoicing team).
  • • Upgraded legacy codebase to C++11, improving performance by 20% and reducing code complexity for a real-time billing application.
  • • Owned a data engineering pipeline using PL/SQL in Oracle SQL Developer and authored UNIX scripts to automate secure retrieval of PII from end users.
C++11 Java SQL / PL/SQL UNIX / Shell Data Pipelines GenAI

Software Developer Intern

3rditech (IIT Delhi) • India

Jan 2023 — Jun 2023
  • • Built machine vision applications with the EBUS SDK, MFC, and C++ to optimize data delivery between host apps and vision standard-compliant imaging devices.
  • • Implemented image acquisition/processing workflows (e.g., CLAHE) for GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, and GenICam devices.
  • • Delivered tools actively used by researchers/engineers at UC Berkeley and IIT Delhi for live camera feed analysis.
C/C++ EBUS SDK MFC Computer Vision Image Processing GenICam

Selected Projects

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

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.
LangGraph Gemma-27B SQLite Gradio yFinance Guardrails

BioMedRAG — Biomedical QA (BioGPT + NCBI)

Aug–Dec 2024

Retrieval-Augmented Generation system integrating BioGPT with NCBI Entrez for biomedical question answering; ~78% accuracy on PubMedQA.

  • • Built retrieval + generation pipeline, evaluation workflow, and interactive UI demo.
  • • Reported peak batch accuracy during evaluation and compared with baselines.
RAG BioGPT Hugging Face CUDA Gradio

VectorNet — Graph-Based Trajectory Forecasting

Jan–May 2025

Implemented VectorNet (two-stage GNN) for motion prediction using Argoverse 1.0, including polyline SubGraphs and global self-attention.

  • • Hand-crafted features from raw CSVs; built per-scenario graph datasets for ego, lanes, and surrounding agents.
  • • Visualized and evaluated predicted trajectories vs. ground truth.
PyTorch Geometric GNN Attention Argoverse

LLM Advisor — Trustworthiness Evaluator & Recommender

Aug–Dec 2025

Two-stage evaluation pipeline profiling open-source LLMs on toxicity, bias, truthfulness, and safety; plus an advisor that recommends models based on user priorities.

  • • Reproducible trust profiles for ethical deployment; explained trade-offs across safety/fairness/factual reliability.
  • • Built Streamlit dashboard with plots and an LLM-powered explanation layer.
Groq Hugging Face Detoxify Streamlit Plotly

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.
CUDA YOLOv8 Faster R-CNN Waymo KITTI

Graph-of-Thought Trajectory Prediction (GoT-LightEMMA)

Nov–Dec 2025

Integrated Graph-of-Thought reasoning into the LightEMMA VLM trajectory prediction framework, adding multi-intent generation, branch scoring, and refinement to improve motion forecasting on nuScenes vs CoT baselines.

  • • Used Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Google Gemini Flash 2.0 for reasoning + scoring workflow.
  • • Focus: higher-quality forecasting via structured branching and refinement.
VLMs Transformers nuScenes OpenCV

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management

Aug–Dec 2025

Three-tier Hierarchical RL system for multi-asset portfolio optimization using market data + Reddit sentiment to improve risk-adjusted returns and reduce drawdowns over 3 years of backtesting.

  • • Trained DQN, PPO, DDPG, TD3 agents and aggregated via meta- and super-agent layers.
  • • Integrated FinBERT sentiment with Yahoo Finance pipelines; beat equal-weighted and single-agent baselines.
PyTorch gymnasium stable-baselines3 Transformers FinBERT yFinance

Skin Cancer AI — Real-Time Edge Device (Capstone)

Jan–Dec 2022

Built a portable real-time AI device to classify benign vs malignant skin cancers using MobileNetV2; achieved 94.2% accuracy on the final prototype using Intel® Movidius™ NCS + Raspberry Pi.

  • • Fine-tuned MobileNetV2 and deployed an edge inference pipeline for low-resource healthcare settings.
  • • Full prototype: camera module + on-device inference + optimized graph deployment.
TensorFlow Keras OpenCV Transfer Learning Edge AI Movidius NCS

More Repositories

Learning repositories with algorithms implemented from scratch.

Education

San José State University — M.S. Artificial Intelligence

San Jose, CA • CGPA: 3.85/4.0

Aug 2024 – May 2026

Award: Qualcomm Engineering Scholarship (College of Engineering)

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

Ongoing: Agentic AI copilot for BI software: insights automation, Q&A, dashboard generation, real-time anomaly detection (Google A2A + Claude MCP).

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

Patiala, India • CGPA: 8.4/10

Aug 2019 – Jun 2023

Skills

AI / ML

  • Machine Learning fundamentals (classification/regression, feature engineering, evaluation)
  • Deep Learning (CNNs, Transformers)
  • LLMs: RAG, agentic workflows, prompting, tool use
  • Trustworthy AI: bias/toxicity/truthfulness/safety evaluation
  • Graph Neural Networks, motion forecasting
  • Autonomous driving: object detection + trajectory prediction
  • Reinforcement Learning (DQN, PPO, DDPG, TD3)

Tools & Frameworks

  • PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Hugging Face Transformers / Datasets
  • LangChain, LangGraph
  • stable-baselines3, gymnasium
  • Streamlit, Gradio
  • OpenCV, scikit-learn, SciPy, Plotly

Engineering

  • Python, SQL
  • CUDA, GPU training & inference basics
  • Data pipelines, evaluation harnesses, visualization
  • APIs: Yahoo Finance, Reddit (sentiment signals)
  • Notebook-to-demo workflows
  • Git / GitHub

Let’s connect

For new grad opportunities, research collaborations, or building production-grade ML systems.

© Aditya Chawla