Daksh Agarwal

Building AI that thinks carefully
and ships cleanly.

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

Delhi · Remote Available for research & ML roles

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 the work happens.

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 taxonomy and metrics (PromptVar, WorstPrompt, SensRange) revealing robustness gaps that pass@k misses, with Spearman analysis and bootstrap CIs.

  • 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

Tools I reach for.

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

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 · Oct 2024 - Present

Let’s build something sharp.

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

dakshagrawal76@gmail.com Download CV