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Basics
Name | Raghu Hemadri |
Label | ML Researcher |
raghu.hemadri@nyu.edu | |
Phone | (929) 724-6024 |
Url | https://raghuhemadri.github.io/ |
Summary | I am a Machine Learning Researcher with a focus on Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning. I am currently pursuing my Master's in Computer Engineering at New York University. I have a strong background in Mathematics and Statistics. I am passionate about solving real-world problems using Machine Learning and Deep Learning. |
Work
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2024.09 - Present Research Collaborator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Policy Loss Function, Vision Language Models
- Working on LLMs for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), focusing on long-horizon planning and task execution in complex, partially observable environments. Formulated new policy loss function to improve multi-agent decision-making, reducing suboptimal actions by 26%
- Developed Vision Language Models (VLMs) for MARL, enabling agents to understand and execute complex tasks using visual inputs and natural language instructions.
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2024.09 - Present Graduate Research Assistant
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
AI for hardware design, LLM based frameworks
- Conducting research on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for hardware Code analysis, including using LLMs as encoders to predict vulnerable code directly from RTL before synthesis.
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2021.07 - 2024.08 Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
Machine Learning, Log Anomaly Detection, Recommendation System, Plugin Engine, Web Development
- Created ML system to identify errors causing build failures, providing diagnosis, resolution with 98.6% accuracy.
- Built log anomaly detection, processing 10TB/day, 94% accuracy, reducing bug-fixing time from 2 days to 1 hour.
- Devised a recommendation system generating 50,000 daily recommendations, automating bug detection and fixing.
- Engineered a plugin engine, handling 1M+ CPU processes daily, improving productivity by 40%.
- Developed web pages with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python APIs, increasing user engagement by 30%
Education
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2024.09 - 2026.05 Brooklyn, NY
Master of Science
New York University
Computer Engineering
- Intro to Machine Learning
- Advanced Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
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2017.07 - 2021.05 Warangal, India
Bachelor of Technology
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Java
Awards
- 2025
The recipient of the David Chang and Cecilia M. Chang Student Leadership Award
New York University
The purpose of this award is to support NYU Tandon students in attending regional or national conferences, meetings, competitions, or other events, to develop their potential to become leaders in society, industry, and academia.
- 2024
Top 20 winners of Qualcomm On-Device AI Hackathon
Qualcomm
One of the top 20 winners of the Qualcomm On-Device AI Hackathon, recognized for developing an OS Copilot AI assistant that enhances user productivity and multitasking. The AI assistant uses on-device machine learning to diagonise and fix issues, improving user experience and device performance.
- 2021
Best Outgoing Student
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Awarded in recognition of my outstanding overall academic and research performance during my undergraduate studies. This honor reflects my excellence in coursework, impactful research contributions, and commitment to academic growth.
- 2021
Best Allrounder
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Recognized for excellence in academics, research, and extracurricular activities during my undergraduate studies. Along with strong academic and research contributions, I was an active member of the institute's badminton team, balancing both intellectual and athletic pursuits.
- 2020
Best Student Paper
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Awarded for outstanding research contributions and scholarly impact during my undergraduate studies. This recognition highlights the significance of my research work, its academic rigor, and its contribution to the field.
- 2021
Best Student Paper
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Awarded for outstanding research contributions and scholarly impact during my undergraduate studies. This recognition highlights the significance of my research work, its academic rigor, and its contribution to the field.
- 2021, 2019, 2018
Merit Scholarship
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Awarded for academic excellence, ranking among the top 10 students in the department. This scholarship recognizes consistent high performance and dedication to academic achievement.
- 2020
Google Research AI Summer School
Google Research
Selected as one of 150 participants globally for the Google Research AI Summer School, an elite program focused on cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Engaged with leading researchers, explored state-of-the-art AI methodologies, and gained hands-on experience in AI research applications.
- 2017
International Physics Olympiad
IPhO Committee
Qualified for the prefinal round of the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), ranking among the top students nationally. This selection reflects strong problem-solving skills, deep conceptual understanding of physics, and excellence in competitive examinations.
- 2020
General Secretary
Electronic Amateur & HAM Club
Served as the General Secretary (President) of the Electronics Amateurs and HAM Club, leading initiatives in electronics, and machine learning. Organized technical workshops, hands-on projects, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering innovation and engagement within the community.
Certificates
Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) | ||
Coursera | 2021-12-08 |
Probabilistic Graphical Models | ||
Coursera | 2021-08-26 |
Behavioral Finance | ||
Coursera | 2021-06-25 |
Algorithmic Trading & Quantitative Analysis Using Python | ||
Udemy | 2021-05-19 |
Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree | ||
Udacity | 2021-01-01 |
Practical Machine Learning with Tensorflow | ||
NPTEL | 2020-03-01 |
Deep Learning | ||
MIT Press book | 2019-06-01 |
Machine Learning Specialization | ||
Coursera | 2018-10-01 |
Publications
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2024.12.03 PrefixLLM: LLM-aided Prefix Circuit Design
ArXiv
PrefixLLM leverages large language models (LLMs) to synthesize optimized prefix circuits, transforming the task into a structured text generation problem (SPCR). Using an iterative design space exploration (DSE) framework, it achieves 3.70% area reduction while maintaining the same delay, demonstrating the potential of LLMs in arithmetic circuit synthesis.
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2024.03.18 Detecting anomalies in log messages using code-derived message patterns to guide structured message classification
US Patent
Developed a log anomaly detection system leveraging code-derived message patterns for structured classification. The system processes 10TB of log data daily with 94% accuracy, reducing bug-fixing time from 2 days to 1 hour by enabling early and precise anomaly detection.
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2022.06.28 ChildrEN SafEty and Rescue (CENSER) System for Trafficked Children from Brothels in India
AAAI
We propose the ChildrEN SafEty and Rescue (CENSER) system used by the Guria non-profit organization to retrieve trafficked children from brothels in India.
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2021.10.26 Iteratively reweighted minimax-concave penalty minimization for accurate low-rank plus sparse matrix decomposition
IEEE TPAMI
We propose weighted minimax-concave penalty (WMCP) as the nonconvex regularizer and show that it admits an equivalent representation that enables weight adaptation. Similarly, an equivalent representation to the weighted matrix gamma norm (WMGN) enables weight adaptation for the low-rank part.
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2021.06.25 Performance analysis of weighted low rank model with sparse image histograms for face recognition under lowlevel illumination and occlusion
CONIT
A comparison of the low-rank recovery performance of two Low-rank matrix approximation (LRMA) algorithms-RPCA and WSNM is brought out on occluded human facial images.
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2021.01.27 Attendance Management System
ICCCI
We propose a novel method of marking attendance using facial recognition. The proposed method uses small and accurate deep supervised network for recognition of faces in a wild classroom scenario. The proposed method is robust to variations in illumination, pose, and expression.
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2020.05.19 AEVBComm: an intelligent communication system based on beta-VAE
CSI Transactions on ICT
The paper proposes a new CNN based VAE communication system. The VAE (continuous latent space) based communication systems confer unprecedented improvement in the system performance compared to AE (distributed latent space) and other traditional methods.
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2019.07.10 Jaya Algorithm Based Intelligent Color Reduction
AEOTIT
A color reduction hybrid algorithm is proposed by applying Jaya algorithm for clustering. We examine the act of Jaya algorithm in the pre-clustering stage and K-means in the post-clustering phase.
Skills
Software Development | |
Linux | |
System Design | |
Perl | |
Shell | |
Python | |
SQL | |
JavaScript | |
HTML/CSS | |
C++ |
Machine Learning | |
Natural Language Processing | |
Computer Vision | |
Reinforcement Learning | |
Generative AI | |
Large Language Models | |
Mathematics | |
Data Science | |
Statistics |
Libraries and Frameworks | |
Tensorflow | |
PyTorch | |
Flask | |
Pandas | |
NumPy | |
Sci-Kit Learn | |
sklearn | |
matplotlib | |
plotly |
Languages
Telugu | |
Native speaker |
English | |
Fluent |
Hindi | |
Fluent |
Interests
Machine Learning | |
Natural Language Processing | |
Large Language Models | |
Reinforcement Learning |
Sports | |
Badminton | |
Cricket |
References
Professor Siddharth Garg | |
https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/siddharth-garg |
Professor Ramesh Karri | |
https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ramesh-karri |
Professor Chandrasekhar Seelamatula | |
https://ee.iisc.ac.in/chandra-sekhar-seelamantula/ |
Dr. Amarjot Singh | |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarjot-singh-phd-b5269815/ |
Professor Anjaneyulu | |
https://erp.nitw.ac.in/ext/profile/ec-anjan |
Projects
- 2024.12 - 2024.12
OS Copilot
Developed an AI assistant using on-device machine learning to enhance user productivity and multitasking, diagnosing and fixing issues to improve user experience and device performance.
- On-Device Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Multitasking Enhancement
- User Productivity
- 2024.08 - 2024.11
OptimUX AI
Developed an Agentic AI framework to recommend optimized website UI designs based on UX best practices.
- Python
- Large Language Models
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- AI Agents
- 2019.05 - 2020.05
FitGen
Led the development of an AI-powered fitness app offering personalized workout plans using user data and machine learning algorithms, increasing user adherence by 32%
- Genetic Algorithms
- Video Pose Analysis
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Git
- 2019.05 - 2020.05
RallyMaster AI
Designed a unique posture correction algorithm using perspective transformation techniques that analyzed player movements; the system processed over 500 training sessions, providing actionable insights for enhanced gameplay
- Computer Vision
- Video Pose Analysis
- Git
- 2023.03 - 2023.07
3D Scene Reconstruction
Developed accurate 3D maps by implementing three local feature/matcher methods: LoFTR, DISK, and KeyNetAffNetHardNet. This project showcases my expertise in Structure from Motion techniques and advancing to 3D modeling.
- Computer Vision
- Structure from Motion
- 2021.11 - 2022.01
Log File Summarization
Developing a log file summarization tool using the Drain algorithm to efficiently extract key insights and patterns from complex log data, enhancing system monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Log Analytics