Summary
Saaket Agashe is a PhD student and research-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building ML-driven systems, robotics tooling, and accessible web interfaces. His recent work centers on multiagent cooperative reasoning in large language models and designing UI agents for desktop automation, blending deep research with practical R&D at Simular and a PhD internship at Cisco Research. He has hands-on experience deploying ML models as REST APIs, embedded systems development, and robotics perception and motion planning, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency from firmware to cloud services. Based in Goleta, CA, he combines academic rigor with product-oriented delivery—often moving prototypes into deployed APIs and automation agents. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to bridge operational security insights from industrial control systems with modern ML workflows, enabling more robust and realistic automation research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at UC Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)