Vetted Research Assistants in the Los Angeles Metro

Yash Mahajan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, full-stack development, and applied ML

Fullerton, CA2y exp

“AI/full-stack product builder who has shipped production agentic systems in both customer support analytics and medical claims automation. They combine React/Next.js frontends with Python-based async backends and LLM orchestration, delivering measurable outcomes like 60% cost savings, 40% less manual review, and reducing claims processing from 30 minutes to 20 seconds.”

Ekta Mulkalwar

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in applied AI systems

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Master’s thesis focused on building and deploying a gait-based biometric authentication system using mobile accelerometer time-series data as an alternative to passwords/2FA. Emphasized real-world robustness by addressing sensor noise and variability (phone placement, walking speed, footwear) and improving safety using biometric metrics like FAR/FRR and EER, while collaborating closely with a non-ML thesis advisor.”

Hitha Sunkara

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and machine learning

Long Beach, CA3y exp

“Built and organized SQL databases for a grocery pricing update backend and has hands-on experience designing FastAPI/Python APIs with security controls like authentication, RBAC, and strict validation. Also brings research experience identifying real-world failure modes (weather-driven sensor/model inaccuracies in MSE wall corrosion work) and adapting models to improve robustness, plus UI design support on an email-restricted campus hackathon enrollment flow.”