Nikhil Binu
Software Engineer Intern at University of California, Santa Cruz
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Binu is an undergraduate computer science researcher at UC Santa Cruz with a decade of hands-on experience building AI systems and leading cross-functional teams. He focuses on real-time perception for autonomous vehicles, integrating Spiking Neural Networks with Dynamic Vision Sensors and validating models in CARLA and custom DVS-equipped vehicles to improve emergency response speed and decision accuracy. Nikhil has shipped production-focused tooling—like multi-agent pipelines and RAG-enabled assistants—during internships, delivering measurable gains in automation and data retrieval. He combines strong technical fluency in PyTorch/SNNtorch, React, and ML engineering with leadership roles running a 400+ participant hackathon, student government, and international MUN initiatives. Notably, he brings uncommon experience training SNNs on event-based audio and vision datasets while also driving sponsor and outreach strategy that secured six-figure funding for campus events. Ambitious and curious, he blends research rigor with product-minded execution aimed at deploying safety-critical AI in the real world.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
None, None, None, None at Doha Modern Indian SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (10)
statistics9
machine-learning8
data-analysis8
python8
scikit7
data-science7
scikit-learn6
parser2
twitter2
psl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nkini/course-companions
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nkini/CMP203-HW4
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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