Yatharth Agarwal
Researcher at Softmax
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYatharth Agarwal is an AI researcher and builder with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging machine learning, behavior design, and embodied ethics. Trained at Stanford and MIT, he has shipped research and product work across healthtech (Axle Health), low-latency ML systems, and civic-security projects, and now focuses on decade-scale AI alignment work at Softmax. He pairs technical depth—published ML research, reinforcement learning and production engineering—with lived practice in relational healing, somatics, and community-based education, having taught courses that convene professors, startup leaders, and indigenous elders. A former president of the Stanford AI Group and founder of the high-school diversity-in-cybersecurity nonprofit PACTF, he blends startup ops, teaching, and policy-facing research to make AI both safer and more human-centered.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Phillips AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems, Master of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
English, Hindi, French, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (143)
text-based10
shell10
music10
user-friendly10
command-line10
pandas9
keyboard9
linux9
golang9
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rust9
python9
bash9
micro9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yatharth/Battery-Time-Remaining
Jul 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
mountainmac-osbatterylionmac
PACTF/pactf
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
CTF framework and website for PACTF
Contributions:632 commits, 24 PRs, 621 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ctfctf-framework
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