Vetted Research Assistants

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Built and shipped production AI features in the automotive dealership domain, including an end-to-end computer-vision damage detection system for trade-ins and a tool-calling, RAG-enabled LotSync AI Agent that answers inventory/VIN questions using strict schemas and internal APIs to avoid hallucinations. Also developed a Dagster + Oracle automated reporting pipeline as a Graduate Research Assistant, supporting 15+ university departments with normalized, reliable ETL workflows.”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“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.”

“Python backend developer from Larix Technologies who built and scaled microservice APIs for an omnichannel messaging SaaS (WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook) and led production performance fixes during peak traffic, cutting webhook latency ~50%. Also shipped applied AI products end-to-end: a RAG-based PDF assistant (LangChain + Mixtral via Groq + React) and a BI agent that plans/executes/verifies multi-step analytics with strong guardrails and auditability.”

“Built and productionized a MediCloud/Medicoud LLM microservice platform that lets clinicians query medical data in natural language, orchestrating multi-step RAG-style workflows with LangChain and evaluating/debugging with LangSmith. Delivered measurable gains (consistency ~70%→90% / +20%; latency ~2.0s→1.1s / -40%) by implementing structured prompts, fallback logic across multiple LLMs, hybrid retrieval tuning, and AWS Lambda performance optimizations (package size, async, caching).”

“Built and deployed a production bilingual (Bengali/English) AI virtual assistant that replaced IVR for telecom customer service at massive scale (~15M users), integrating ASR/TTS, Rasa dialogue management, and custom NLP. Overcame low-resource Bengali data and noisy call-center audio with synthetic data augmentation and transformer fine-tuning, achieving significant production gains including ~50% reduction in support calls.”

“Robotics lead engineer (PhD/agriculture research context) who built and iterated a three-unit, wirelessly coordinated greenhouse data-collection robot—solving real-world alignment and comms reliability issues by redesigning the rail/gear system and moving from RF to ESP Wi-Fi with MAC-addressed control. Strong embedded C/C++ background with full-stack robot control implemented from scratch; beginning exposure to ROS 2 via an upcoming field deployment.”

“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.”