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Gagan Mundada - Machine Learning Intern in San Diego, CA

Gagan Mundada

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal AI and evaluation benchmarks

McAuley Lab, UC San DiegoUC San DiegoSan Diego, CA2 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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ML-focused candidate with beginner ROS/ROS2 experience (custom pub-sub nodes; TurtleBot3 SLAM simulation debugging via topic inspection and transform/orientation checks). Has research/project exposure to LLM training approaches (GRPO with pseudo-labels using Hugging Face TRL on Qwen/Llama) and uses Docker/Kubernetes + CI/CD to run ViT saliency-attention/compression workloads on UCSD Nautilus infrastructure.

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Key Strengths

  • Hands-on ROS debugging using topic inspection (rostopic echo) and sensor validation
  • Foundational ROS/ROS2 development (custom Python nodes; pub-sub messaging)
  • Applied ML/LLM experimentation using Hugging Face TRL with Qwen/Llama
  • Practical MLOps experience running jobs via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD on a university cluster

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Experience

Machine Learning InternMcAuley Lab, UC San Diego · Mar 2025 – Presentinternship
Machine Learning InternSan Diego Supercomputer Center · Jul 2025 – Sep 2025internship
Machine Learning InternCosman Lab, UC San Diego · Oct 2024 – Jul 2025internship
Deep Learning InternINRIA Morpheo · May 2023 – Jul 2023internship

Education

UC San Diegomaster, Computer Science (2026)
IIT (BHU) Varanasibachelor, Electronics Engineering (2024)

Languages

English

Publications

5 publications

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs)Symbolic music reasoning and music intelligence benchmarksConversational recommendation systemsReinforcement learning optimization (GRPO)Topic modeling and variational inferenceNetworked IoT localization and RIS-assisted communications

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Gagan MundadaIntern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal AI and evaluation benchmarks