AI · ML · Research

Daksh Agarwal

Building AI that thinks carefully and ships cleanly.

Machine learning engineer & researcher: LLM agents, RAG systems, computer vision, and evaluation pipelines for real-world systems.

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Dual-degree AI student crafting production agents, research benchmarks, and vision systems that hold up outside the lab.

Currently a Machine Learning Intern at Peakflo (YC W22) and a Research Associate at NYU. I work across LLM agents, predictive maintenance, RAG evaluation, and object detection, with a bias toward measurable gains and responsible AI. Previously at Avawatz, Grant Thornton, and HCL Guvi.

Pursuing a B.Tech in AI & ML at GGSIPU and an Online Degree (B.S.) in AI & Data Science at IIT Madras. Published at ASIACCS (A) and in MDPI Electronics (Q2). ML Lead at Google Developer Group.

Where I build

Machine Learning Intern

Peakflo (YC W22)

Fine-tuning and optimizing LLM-powered agents with GPT-4o, Gemini, and Claude, cutting hallucinations, tightening response consistency, and wiring external tools into enterprise finance workflows.

Research Associate

New York University

Co-leading RAG benchmarks vs Open Deep Research and AutoGPT across retrieval quality, grounding, and hallucination rate. Multi-LLM pipelines with GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama, and Claude, with +9% answer accuracy via prompt and retrieval optimization.

Machine Learning Intern

Grant Thornton

Enhanced GenMobius enterprise AI MVP; intent-aware agents with Azure AI Search; proposal generation system; NASA C-MAPSS RUL predictive maintenance benchmarks.

Machine Learning Intern

Avawatz

Predictive failure detection for Flint bus systems; 100k+ synthetic records for rare events; Graph Neural Networks outperforming classical and deep baselines. Also fine-tuned YOLOv8 on 800+ dental radiographs to 91% mAP50.

Data Science Intern

HCL Guvi

Designed 10+ cloud & AI curriculum modules. Co-built an AI avatar & synthetic voice MVP (HeyGen-style) with generative APIs and audio synthesis in a deployable web app.

Undergraduate Researcher

IIT Tirupati

Built a real-time underwater object detection system with YOLOv8 on a custom dataset from proprietary camera footage and open-source data. Validated on physical hardware in live underwater environments; designed the full ingestion, annotation, and augmentation pipeline.

Undergraduate Researcher

IIIT Delhi

End-to-end deep learning pipeline for malware classification from opcode and API sequences across 20+ families. Decompiled 10k+ Windows binaries with IDA & Ghidra; transformer NLP reached 96.4% accuracy with SHAP-based interpretability.

Selected builds

01

Prompt Sensitivity in LLM Code Generation

~6,000 evaluation jobs across six LLMs on Azure AI Foundry. Custom metrics (PromptVar, WorstPrompt, SensRange) revealing robustness gaps that pass@k misses.

Azure OpenAI · Evaluation · LLMs

02

Domain-Specific RAG Chatbot

LangChain + vector store with scoped retrieval, session memory, and prompt boundaries for governable, on-topic multi-turn answers.

LangChain · RAG · Vector DB

03

Underwater Object Detection

Custom YOLOv8 pipeline from proprietary + open footage through annotation, augmentation, and live hardware validation in real underwater conditions.

YOLOv8 · OpenCV · Edge deploy

04

Malware Classification Pipeline

Opcode and API sequences from 20+ families; transformer NLP on 10k+ Windows binaries decompiled with IDA & Ghidra: 96.4% accuracy with SHAP audits.

Transformers · Security · SHAP

Stack

Languages
Python, C, C++, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, R, Bash
Machine Learning
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, FastAI
LLM / NLP
LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, RAG, Transformers, Prompt Engineering
Vision & MLOps
OpenCV, YOLO, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, FastAPI, Flask
Cloud
Azure ML, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI, OCI
Vector Stores
FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone

Study & pubs

Guru Gobind Indraprastha University

B.Tech, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning · CGPA 8.0

IIT Madras

Online Degree, B.S. in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science · CGPA 8.0

Leadership

ML Lead, Google Developer Group

Let’s build something sharp.

Open to research collaborations, ML internships, and agentic systems work.