IIT MADRAS · CLASS OF 2028

NAGRAJ GAONKAR.

I work on ML systems, GPU programming, parallel computing, and C++ tools.

SELECTED WORK

01

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Software Intern, May–July 2026. Built AI response caching with vector search and BM25, cutting latency by 15 seconds and saving 600k tokens/month.

02

PROBABLY ON FIRE

Wildfire forecasting with PatchTST + DLA, tree models, and Meta-MLP stacking, plus seven-day Monte Carlo risk simulation.

03

TORIRENDER

C++ ray tracer using MPI + OpenMP across 40 CPUs. Reduced a 1600 × 900 render from 19.64 hours to 0.81 hours.

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04

LLVM CONSTEXPR

Added Clang constexpr support for X86 shuffle intrinsics across SSE, AVX2, and AVX512.

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05

VERITAS

Synthetic-image detection with CNN + ViT ensembles, adversarial testing, and visual explanations.

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06

CRANFIELD SEARCH

Search across 1,400+ documents using LSA and K-Means. Improved mAP by 9.3% over the VSM baseline.

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07

PITWALL-SPY

Multithreaded F1 simulator with 20 ms telemetry, a bounded ring buffer, and a live terminal leaderboard.

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08

REGIME TRADER

Regime-aware intraday strategies with parallel backtests and no-lookahead constraints. Built for InterIIT.

ABOUT

IIT Madras · B.Tech + Accelerated M.Tech (Data Science & AI) · 2028

CGPA 9.32/10

Coursework in GPU programming, deep learning, NLP, parallel computing, and mathematics.

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