Rakshit Agrawal
Principal Applied Scientist at The Nature Conservancy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRakshit Agrawal is a Principal Applied Scientist in San Francisco with 11 years of experience translating cutting-edge AI research into market-ready products and platforms. He has led R&D and product efforts across startups and enterprises—most recently building generative AI and multi-agent systems for Microsoft Teams—while advising organizations like The Nature Conservancy on edge AI for wildlife monitoring. A PhD-trained researcher with hands-on experience in computer vision, graph neural networks, and productionizing AI at the edge, he combines technical strategy, product vision, and team leadership to drive impact. He has founded and scaled ventures (including an AI startup focused on generative models and GNNs) and served as VP of R&D, demonstrating a rare blend of startup agility and enterprise delivery. Notably, his advisory work spans practical deployment constraints (edge, IoT) and research-grade model design, balancing innovation with operational feasibility.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Jaypee Institute of Information TechnologyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (20)
robotics9
environmental9
eden9
bit9
computer-vision8
artificial-intelligence8
machine-learning7
natural-language-processing7
deep-learning7
python7
ai5
tensorflow5
lstm4
deep-neural-networks4
graph3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ML-on-structures/lstm-wikipedia
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:77 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
rakshit-agrawal/eden
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
http-requestspythonsectorsssfdisaster
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