Ashish Rai
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorAshish Rai is an applied AI researcher and Member of Technical Staff with nine years of experience bridging generative modeling and interpretability research with production-grade distributed systems. Trained at NYU Courant and experienced across VMware and cloud-focused roles, he has deep expertise in performance characterization, profiling, and root-cause analysis for hyperconverged infrastructure while transitioning into generative AI work. He contributed to NYU Vital, a private cloud used for student VM assignments, and brings hands-on systems knowledge (Xen, QEMU, ESXi) to ML deployment challenges. Comfortable moving from micro-benchmarks to model architectures, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with curiosity about model behavior and explainability. Based in New York, he pairs academic research instincts with practical delivery at startups and enterprise teams.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
83reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (27)
artificial-intelligence10
pretrain10
large-language-models10
llm-inference10
llm10
deep-learning10
ai10
robotics9
apple-silicon8
middleware7
google-nearby6
neural-network6
keras6
cross-validation6
scikit-learn6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raishish/phosphobot
Jul 2025 - Oct 2025
phospho lets you control your SO-100 and SO-101 robot and train VLA AI robotics models
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
raishish/ml-projects
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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