resumé

Basics

Name Ashish Rai
Email ashish.rai@nyu.edu
Url https://raishish.github.io
Summary Interested in Interpretability, Reasoning in Language Models, and AI Safety.

Work

  • 2024.01 - 2025.05
    Graduate Assistant - NYU Vital
    New York University
    Responsible for development and maintenance of the NYU Vital Platform (Private Cloud for assignments).
  • 2018.07 - 2023.07
    Member of Technical Staff – Performance Engineer
    VMware, Bengaluru, India
    Optimized resource consumption (CPU, memory) and improved performance of vSAN storage stack.
    • Worked on and fixed multiple customer performance bugs in on-prem and cloud environments.
    • Led and executed IO path performance characterization for many product feature proposals.
    • Contributed to in-house performance frameworks (Python, Java, Angular, Django, SQL).
  • 2017.05 - 2017.07
    Applied Deep Learning Researcher Intern
    Arya.ai, Mumbai, India
    Worked on classification of satellite images using Deep Neural Architectures.
    • Contributed to a data type agnostic multi-threaded data pre-processing pipeline.
  • 2016.12 - 2017.02
    Applied IoT Intern
    Banyan Nation, Hyderabad, India
    Contributed to the development of smart dustbin sensors (based on Intel Edison) to track garbage level.
    • Contributed to Analytics and Visualization dashboards (MEAN stack).

Volunteer

Education

  • 2023 - 2025
    M.S.
    New York University, Courant Institute, New York
    Computer Science
  • 2014 - 2018
    B.Tech
    National Institute of Technology, Warangal
    Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Awards

Skills

Programming Languages & Frameworks
Python
Pytorch
Java
SQL
LaTeX
Angular
Django
Deep Learning Skills
Pytorch
HuggingFace
DDP
Slurm
Other Skills
Virtual Machines
Cloud (AWS)
Distributed Computing
Teaching

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Native Speaker

Projects