RAG · Agentic AI
A deployment-grade RAG assisted system for domain-specific querying on Medical databases and AI-assisted analysis.
About
Hello There! I'm Atharva.
I’m an AI engineer and researcher who loves building solutions. What started with robotics evolved into computer vision and eventually a deep dive into AI, spanning everything from gesture-controlled systems and robotics to LLMs, AI pipelines, and agentic architectures. Today, I’m focused on building intelligent systems that go beyond generating outputs — systems that reason, use tools, and turn ambitious ideas into real-world solutions.
Outside of AI, I love travelling, gaming, and falling down rabbit holes ranging from obscure history to quantum mechanics. At my core, I’m a builder driven by curiosity and an appetite for the seemingly impossible. Give me a weird problem and ask, “Can you build this?” — I’ll figure it out.
Selected projects
4 projectsVision · Robotics
A multimodal AI pipeline connecting visual perception with robot actions in dynamic environments.
Generative AI
Generative models for ophthalmological imaging, including OCT and fundus images.
OCR · Python
An OCR project that segments an image into individual characters, predicts each character with a pretrained model, and combines the predictions into text.
Work experience
May 2024
PresentCurrent roleSingapore
PresentCurrent roleSingapore
AI Research Fellow
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, PROTON Research Programme
Leads AI research and production ML initiatives across LLM/RAG systems, multimodal AI, and model deployment. Built a RAG platform used by 50+ global research teams, deployed Vision Transformer models into clinical workflows, and reduced infrastructure costs by approximately 40%.
AI ResearchRAGMultimodal AIVision TransformersML Infrastructure
June 2021
April 2023Bangalore, India / Tokyo, Japan
April 2023Bangalore, India / Tokyo, Japan
AI Product Engineer
Goalist India Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Developed and deployed AI systems for enterprise workflows. Built an information-retrieval and resume-parsing platform, optimized entity extraction and ranking for multilingual Japanese-language data, and led a team of three engineers building a full-stack AI application.
Information RetrievalResume ParsingJapanese NLPTeam LeadershipProduction ML
December 2019
December 2020Chennai, India
December 2020Chennai, India
AI Engineer Intern
MellonAI
Led development of three AI-driven healthcare systems covering head-pose estimation, facial recognition, and emotion detection. Deployed computer-vision systems adopted by partner hospitals, reducing operational waiting time by approximately 20%.
Healthcare AIComputer VisionFacial RecognitionModel Deployment
May 2019
July 2019Pune, India
July 2019Pune, India
Computer Vision Engineer Intern
Alpha ICT LLP
Built OCR and automatic license-plate-recognition systems using CNN architectures and custom image preprocessing pipelines. Automated manual identification workflows and reduced annual operational costs by approximately 80%.
OCRLicense Plate RecognitionCNNsImage ProcessingAutomation
Education
Undergraduate2017 — 2021
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore, India
Postgraduate2023 — 2025
Master of Science in Computer Control and Automation
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Publications
5 papersRetinal Vascularity Index in Parkinson's Disease vs Controls
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 67(7), 3582 (2026)
Novel Artificial Intelligence–Based Quantification of Anterior Chamber Inflammation Using Vision Transformers
Translational Vision Science & Technology, 14(5), 31 (2025)
A Hybrid Autoencoder Architecture for Text Encryption
2021 Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT), pp. 1–7 (2021)
A Novel Chaotic System for Text Encryption Optimized with Genetic Algorithm
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 11(10) (2020)
Scytale — An Evolutionary Cryptosystem
International Journal of Computer Science and Network, 9(4), 153–159 (2020)
Skills and tools
LLM & Generative AI
9 skillsLanguage-model systems, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic workflows.
Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLarge Language ModelsLLM Fine-TuningEmbeddingsRerankingAgentic AIPrompt EngineeringLLM EvaluationError Analysis
Machine Learning
7 skillsDeep learning methods applied across computer vision, robotics, generative modeling, and other AI problems.
PyTorchTensorFlowVision TransformersDiffusion ModelsComputer VisionGenerative ModelsDeep Learning
ML Infrastructure
7 skillsProduction deployment and optimization for machine-learning systems.
AWSDockerMicroservicesCI/CDModel DeploymentMLOpsProduction Optimization
Programming
7 skillsLanguages used across AI research and engineering projects.
PythonCC++TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaGo
Computer Vision & Robotics
6 skillsVisual recognition and perception systems, including projects linking vision to robot actions.
Computer VisionOCRLicense Plate RecognitionImage ProcessingDepth EstimationRobotics
AI Products & Information Retrieval
6 skillsApplied AI systems and search pipelines built for enterprise workflows.
Information RetrievalResume ParsingEntity ExtractionRankingJapanese NLPFull-Stack AI