Yash Akhauri
PHD Student at Cornell University
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Akhauri is a PhD student at Cornell with nine years of research and engineering experience across AI, high-performance C++/CUDA programming, and systems prototyping. His background includes research roles at Google and Intel Labs and a visiting scholar stint at Xilinx, reflecting a focus on accelerating compute for AI workloads. He combines strong software skills (Python, Java, OpenMP) with hands-on embedded and Android game development experience, unusual for someone deeply embedded in systems research. A B.E. in Electronics and Instrumentation from BITS Pilani and early industry internships (Wolfram, Larsen & Toubro) underpin his blend of theoretical rigor and practical delivery. Beyond research, he’s a technical blogger and contributor to student sponsorship/marketing initiatives, signaling an ability to communicate complex ideas and engage broader communities. Based in the New York City area, he brings both academic depth and production-oriented engineering to AI and heterogeneous computing problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigher secondary Science, Higher secondary Science at IIT-ians PACEDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Cornell UniversityCambridge IGCSE Science, Cambridge IGCSE Science at Ryan Global School, Kharghar
English, Hindi
Github Skills (56)
lora10
llm9
llama9
nas9
fine-tuning9
cuda8
gemma8
neural-architecture-search8
mistral8
pytorch7
inference7
pruning7
efficientnet7
transformer6
visual-recognition6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akhauriyash/MathForCS_ML
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
akhauriyash/HadaNet
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:76 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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