rishi athavale
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drive powerline
ml eng intern
used ml to analyze the energy market
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built foundation time-series model for cross-region aemo predictive signaling & voltalility forecasting across diverse factors (demand, solar pv, price elasticity, price) to inform optimal energy trading. improved price spike forecasting from f1 0.40 -> 0.61 to predict critical >$1K events. built internal optimization software suite that reduced ai dev cycle from >10 days to <1 day.
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berkeley ai research
ml researcher
web agents · inr uncertainty (missing-wedge)
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built agents to navigate/analyze sites (reddit, gitlab, e-com) with eval harnesses; ongoing work on epistemic uq for inrs in tomography.
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machine learning @ berkeley
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cs198-126 lecturer · guardian image search
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lectured ~40 students as lead student facilitator for berkeley's deep learning for computer vision course (cs198-126). pm/lead engineer for development of image search engine for the guardian (openclip + qwen2.5).
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hhmi janelia (turaga lab)
research intern
ml for microscopy and holography · chromatix dev
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developed ml-powered 3d snapshot microscopy algorithm w/ depth-adaptable phase mask for zebrafish brain imaging; demos + chromatix contribs; transformer-based computer generated holography for optogenetics (boosted accuracy from 60% to 77%).
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vytal.ai
founding ml engineer
eye-tracking < 2° error · pytorch + aws
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built an eye-tracking pipeline on aws ec2 for neuro-diagnostic biomarkers; optimized for reliability and low-latency inference.

rishi athavale

  • rishi athavale

    eecs @ berkeley, researcher @ bair