Abhaya Ravikumar

Resume

Email: abhayasr@mit.edu | Phone: (914) 441-8766 | Location: Cambridge, MA

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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

August 2021 - June 2025

Bachelor's Computer Science and Engineering

  • Software Construction, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computation Structures, Machine Learning, AI Decision Making and Society, Advances in Computer Vision
  • GPA: 4.8/5.0

Work Experience

MindsDB: ML Engineering Intern

March 2024 – September 2024
  • Created a DSPy, declarative self-improving framework to continuously optimize LLM prompts as new queries are added
  • Built optimized LLM chain using examples from text-to-SQL dataset, allowing for real-time optimization with each query
  • Merged DSPy code and LLM evaluation through RAG into production successfully

University of College London: ML Research Intern

June 2023 – August 2023
  • Created and evaluated deep learning (DL) models to map audio to neural code to improve the accuracy of hearing aids
  • Utilized TensorFlow to build/train networks with different audio inputs to model normal hearing to neural signals

Research Experience

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

September 2022 – August 2024
  • Developed Python software that utilizes reinforcement learning with music to perform autonomous robotic movement
  • Working to connect large language models (LLM and GPT4) to robot motion gait parameter outputs
  • Created a pipeline that connects robot sensor velocity data and LLM prompts to execute motion in various environments

Skills

Python Programming
Machine Learning/AI Research
Competition Math
JavaScript

Projects

MIT D-Lab Development Ghana

Designed and built an industrial mill to grind shea nuts for Ayirkasa, a women-led Ghanaian social enterprise. (Published Blog)

Interests

Entrepreneurship Robotics Classical Piano Running Hiking Traveling