Hi, I'm Aryan 👋

20, building fast backends, scalable language models, and iOS apps. I live to learn, create, and ship. Experienced in full-stack development, machine learning, and data analysis.

Building alice and writing research papers.

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About

I love to solve problems, learn intricate concepts, and build products. Solving daunting & ambiguous problems demand clarity under chaos, thus I believe in creating intuitive interfaces and scalable engineering to solve them from first principles. I'm currently a computer science and statistics senior at ASU, while researching safety in large-language models.

I grew up with a deep passion for mathematics, and use bayesian statistics to explain the world around me. I have won awards at collegiate hackathons such as HackMIT 2024 and SFHacks 2024. In my free time, I'm going down rabbit-holes or cycling till I run out of roads.

I Grew Up in Six Cities

Here are some of my favorite clicks:

Sunset in Chandler, AZ

Chandler, AZ

Sunset in Hyderabad, TS

Hyderabad, TS

Sunset in Mumbai, MH

Mumbai, MH

Work Experience

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The Biodesign Institute

May 2024 - Present
Software Engineer (ML Research)
Saved over 75% in GPU costs (approximating $3,850) and 6 weeks in training and inference times by implementing Knowledge Distillation and Flash Attention for Protein Language Models. Created benchmarking scripts using HuggingFace and Python with PyTorch & Transformers libraries. Wrote unit tests to increase code coverage by 12.5%.
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Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab

August 2024 - Present
Machine Learning Researcher (AI Safety)
Filtered text datasets over 2 TB in size and fine-tuned large-language models using Python to improve accuracy in ambiguous human text. Co-authored an IEEE BigData paper. Implemented an optimized model inference API using vLLM for GPU memory management and FastAPI for RESTful endpoints, supporting concurrent requests which lowered inference latency by 30%.
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HealthGC

May 2025 - December 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Intern
Seed-stage startup backed by the Floodgate Fund. Engineered a sub-200ms HIPAA-compliant RAG system using PostgreSQL and WebAssembly for retrieving multimodal data. Developed tool calling functionality for web search and RAG for an LLM-based Voice Agent.
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RCV Innovations

June 2023 - July 2023
Website Development Intern
Developed backend infrastructure for static assets and 3D models integration using JavaScript and React.js, yielding 46% surge in customer satisfaction. Created Power BI dashboards and automated data collection using Google Analytics API, increasing click-through-rate by 29%.

Education

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Arizona State University (Barrett Honors)

August 2023 - May 2026
BS in Computer Science, Minor in Statistics
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Buildspace

May 2024 - June 2024
nights & weekends s5

Skills & Tech Stack

Java
C++
Python
JavaScript
SQL
C
Julia
Golang
Prolog
React.js
Next.js
Node.js
TypeScript
MongoDB
AWS
GCP
Docker
Linux
Git
Research Publications

TM-Vec 2: Accelerated Protein Homology Detection for Structural Similarity

Aryan Keluskar, Paarth Batra, Valentyn Bezshapkin, James T. Morton, Qiyun Zhu
Honors Thesis (under review at a major conference)
Google Scholar GitHub

Do LLMs Understand Ambiguity in Text? A Case Study in Open-world Question Answering

Aryan Keluskar, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Huan Liu
IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2024, Washington DC
Google Scholar Tweet20 citations

Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis

Matthew Aton, Daniel McDonald, ..., Aryan Keluskar, ..., Rob Knight, James T. Morton, Qiyun Zhu
Nature Methods
Google Scholar GitHub Tweet
Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex iOS applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

Alice logo

Alice

GitHub
Extension

Browser Extension that provides instant context, summaries, and code for cited papers. Developed custom algorithms and optimized LLM pipelines to extract information from PDFs for less than a cent.

JavaScript
TypeScript
gulp.js
Chrome
HTML
CSS
Rest API
Gemini
Claude
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Canvas MCP

GitHub

Built an AI-agent protocol that allows you to query your courses in the AI app of your choice. This MCP Server is a collection of Canvas LMS tools for the model context protocol.

Python
JavaScript
httpx
Rest API
FastMCP
UV
Anthropic
EdTech
Agentic AI
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CloudStash

GitHub
Download

CloudStash is a macOS menubar app that uploads files to Google Drive and generates shareable links.

SwiftUI
Xcode
UIKit
Google Drive API
Google OAuth
Turing logo

Turing

Devpost

Turing watches how you do tasks, how you reply to messages, how you work to learn your patterns and automate your tasks.

Python
Vision Language Models
Groq
Computer-Use Agent
Typescript
XML Builder logo

XML Builder

GitHub
Website

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI recommend using XML to structure your LLM prompts, so this tool helps you quickly generate structured XML prompts without the hassle of manual formatting.

React.js
Hono.js
TypeScript
SQL
Cloudflare R1
Google OAuth
Express.js
Vercel
irina (AI for Minesweeper) logo

irina (AI for Minesweeper)

GitHub

AI that solves Minesweeper in record-breaking time. Uses a probabilistic approach, scans the grid, trains a Reinforcement Learning model to make decisions.

Reinforcement Learning
Python
TensorFlow
Pytorch
Jupyter Notebook
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EasyWire

GitHub
Website

Machine learning model to analyze forex market trends and detect currency arbitrage. Achieved 5% reduction in losses using sentiment analysis and quantitative analysis.

Python
Machine Learning
FastAPI
HTML
CSS
Plaid
Docker
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PicThis

GitHub
NPM

CLI tool to convert images to WebP format, reducing file sizes by at least 90% and automatically updating code references. npx picthis

JavaScript
TypeScript
Node.js
npm
CLI
Image Compression

SEOthing

GitHub

CLI tool to skyrocket your Lighthouse score by converting images to WebP format, generating meta tags, and optimizing for better performance. npx seothing

JavaScript
Gemini API
Node.js
npm
CLI
Image Compression

MelodySyncer

GitHub
Website

Created a sub-100ms API to convert Spotify playlists to YouTube in Rust 🦀. Used multi-threading and developed a unique scoring algorithm which maximizes accuracy.

Rust
Tokio
Python
FastAPI
HTML
CSS
Google Cloud
Hackathons

I like hacking things (a lot)

During my time in university, I attended 13+ hackathons. It was eye-opening to see the endless possibilities brought to life by a group of motivated and passionate individuals within 2-3 days. I have made some of my best friends and memories at these hackathons :)

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    TreeHacks 2026

    Stanford, CAIf you're participating as well, let's connect!
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    HackIllinois 2026

    Urbana-Champaign, ILIf you're participating as well, let's connect!
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    CalHacks 2025

    Turing
    Berkeley, CA    Turing watches how you do tasks, how you reply to messages, how you work, and personalizes your computer-use agent so your workflows can be automated based on your patterns and habits.
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    HackMIT 2025

    Flashback
    Cambridge, MA    We built a RAG for videos and developed it with smart glasses as the base to create a social media platform. I worked on facial recognition and task matching algorithm using OpenCV and Modal's Compute Platform, so the RAG could match the user's contacts to the video content.
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    HackIllinois 2025 (Microgrant 🏆)

    Alice
    Urbana-Champaign, IL    Built a chrome extension allowing researchers to learn more about the papers cited by simply hovering over the citations. Learned a ton about Model Context Protocol (MCPs) and PDF.js rendering engine.
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    CalHacks 2024

    CuraRx
    Berkeley, CA    Built a full stack web-app that allows users to track their medication schedules. Designed a multi-modal Agentic AI System to check-in on patients and detect for potential side effects using sentiment analysis.
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    HackMIT 2024 (Sponsor Prize 🏆)

    InsightHire
    Cambridge, MA    Awarded 1000$ in `Best Use of AI without an API`! Built a Python-Flask backend that uses Language Models to re-rank resumes and web-crawl to validate applicant resumes.
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    SFHacks 2024 (Sponsor Track 🏆)

    Soul of SF
    San Francisco, CA    Won the Best Use of AI and VerbWire Track!
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    LAHacks 2024

    FreshUntil
    Los Angeles, CA    Built a full stack web-app designed to help individuals manage their groceries more efficiently. We aim to Minimize Waste & Maximize Taste.
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    WiCS Coding Contest 2024 + HKD Code-a-thon 2024

    Tempe, AZWon 1st Place Undergraduate Team (out of 150+ participants) at WiCS and 1st Place Overall at HKD Code-a-thon. Both of these were Leetcode-style coding competitions with questions in Data Structures and Algorithms.
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    SunHacks 2023

    TradeDaddy
    Tempe, AZ    Built a peer-to-peer equipment rental marketplace for students. Disqualified since I was too young (I mentored this hackathon the very next year. Talk about redemption).
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    AI in Education by ScaleU (Honorable Mention 🏆)

    Scottsdale, AZ
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    Opportunity Hack 2023 (Finalist)

    Tempe, AZTop 5 Finalist out of 100+ participants
Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a text on twitter or email me directly at contact@aryankeluskar.com.

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