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Hey there! I'm Harshini, an MS Computer Engineering student at NYU and an AI/ML & software engineer obsessed with building at the bleeding edge.
I build a lot with LLMs (fine-tuning, evals, agents, multimodal systems), and I'm just as at home deep in financial data and the backend systems and complex architectures that make real products hold up under load. I love taking an idea from a research spark all the way to a production-grade system that ships.
I also co-founded Grapher Labs, where I built a causal simulation engine for CFOs.
M.S. Computer Engineering, New York University
B.Tech. Computer Science, Cummins College of Engineering for Women
Machine Learning Intern, Capgemini
Designed and deployed a modular LSTM-Attention Autoencoder on edge devices (Raspberry Pi / TFLite) to analyze real-time multivariate telemetry and predict hardware degradation with minimal latency. Engineered a Root Cause Analysis algorithm to isolate subsystem failures and an incremental online-learning pipeline (SGD partial-fit) for memory-efficient model adaptation.
Founder & CEO, Grapher Labs
Co-founded a B2B AI startup building a causal financial simulation engine for CFOs, a 5-layer system spanning structural causal models, counterfactual inference, agent-based simulation, and LLM-hybrid DAG learning. Drove 15+ customer discovery interviews with CFOs and VPs to validate product-market fit, signed 3 LOIs, and secured 2 pilots (incl. Live Nation Entertainment); completed the NYU Leslie eLab accelerator.
Graduate Research Assistant, NYU VIDA Lab
Architected an HRNet-based pose-estimation pipeline with real-time inference, reaching 95% accuracy across 1,000+ subjects. Optimized ETL pipelines across 8+ intersections, cutting latency 35% via Kubernetes orchestration, and built Python automation to launch remote SSH sensor terminals from a single UI action.
Software Engineer Intern, Sycamore Informatics
Built a full-stack React.js + PostgreSQL UI featuring a modular stateful tree and an in-browser Monaco editor. Architected a stateful backend data model standardizing 20+ interdependent state variables and a scalable REST API layer for hierarchical MDR import workflows.
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Data Engineering
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Graduate Orientation Leader, NYU
Research Assistant, NYU WIRELESS
Google Summer of Code 2025
Winner, Iterate X Columbia Hack '26
Winner, Rutgers Hackathon 2024
Winner, Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon '26
Runner-Up, Columbia Devfest '26
Co-author, CVPR 2026 (PedTiles-6K)
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Things I've built.
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Google Summer of Code '25
HarmonyHub
A modular learning platform that uses generative AI (MIDI-GPT, Transformer-XL) to create personalized music-education exercises. Built as a GSoC '25 contributor.
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LLM Evaluation · Finance
Financial-Eval-Harness
An eval harness for financial-QA over SEC 10-K filings, using an accounting-identity constraint graph to verify LLM-extracted figures against deterministic identities.
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Winner · Iterate X Columbia '26
MCP Adapter Sandbox
An automated sandbox that transforms OpenAPI specs into serverless MCP tools, deploy API integrations for AI agents with zero boilerplate.
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Runner-Up · Columbia Devfest '26
Make Your MCP Easy (MYME)
An MCP maker that turns any API into a hosted MCP server, so AI assistants can safely use an app's tools, with zero boilerplate.
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Hack NYU '25
FinCrime Multimodal NPU Engine
An on-device fraud detector for Snapdragon laptops that fuses vision, audio, text, and OCR into explainable, real-time risk scoring.
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Winner · Rutgers Hackathon '24
Ensemble NJ Transit Commuter App
An ML-powered transit app with real-time delay prediction and a savings/wallet plan for frequent commuters. Built with React, Flask, PostgreSQL & TensorFlow.
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Winner · Mistral AI Worldwide '26
Agentic World, AI Digital Twins
Behavioral digital twins trained on real user sessions to autonomously QA-test features before release. Mistral-7B + LoRA per-demographic adapters. Best Use of Hugging Face.
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Autonomous AI
MarginGuard
An autonomous AI that protects project margin across a portfolio of commercial HVAC construction projects.
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LLM Fine-Tuning · 2025
Financial Analysis Chatbot
Fine-tuned an LLM with LoRA on SEC EDGAR filings and financial disclosures (+25% on domain-specific queries). Deployed as a distributed microservice on AWS SageMaker via Docker.
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Google Summer of Code '25
HarmonyHub
Generative-AI music-education platform (MIDI-GPT, Transformer-XL) producing personalized learning exercises.
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LLM Evaluation · Finance
Financial-Eval-Harness
Financial-QA eval over SEC 10-K filings with an accounting-identity constraint graph verifying LLM-extracted figures.
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MLOps · CI/CD
Random-Forest CI/CD Pipeline
An automated MLOps pipeline (GitHub Actions → Hugging Face Spaces) reaching 97% accuracy / 94% F1 with fully reproducible workflows.
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Research · NYU VIDA
Street-Aware
Pedestrian data collection and analysis using physical street sensors, the computer-vision pipeline behind the CVPR 2026 PedTiles-6K dataset.
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Winner · Iterate X Columbia '26
MCP Adapter Sandbox
Transforms OpenAPI specs into serverless MCP tools so AI agents can use any API, zero boilerplate.
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Runner-Up · Columbia Devfest '26
Make Your MCP Easy (MYME)
Turns any API into a hosted MCP server so AI assistants can safely use an app's tools, zero boilerplate.
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Winner · Rutgers Hackathon '24
Ensemble NJ Transit Commuter App
Real-time delay prediction + a savings/wallet plan for frequent commuters. React · Flask · PostgreSQL · TensorFlow.
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Hack NYU '25
FinCrime Multimodal NPU Engine
On-device fraud detector for Snapdragon laptops fusing vision, audio, text & OCR into explainable risk scoring.
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Winner · Mistral AI Worldwide '26
AI Digital Twins
Behavioral digital twins trained on real user sessions to autonomously QA-test features before release. Best Use of Hugging Face.
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Autonomous AI
MarginGuard
Autonomous AI that protects project margin across a portfolio of commercial HVAC construction projects.
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