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rikhil-amonkar/README.md

Rikhil Amonkar

Computer Science @ Drexel University · Data Science Minor · Expected December 2028


About

Software developer focused on machine learning, computer vision, and LLM systems. Currently building autonomous drone navigation at Exo Dynamics and leading a first-author ICML submission benchmarking LLM constraint-planning at Drexel. Previously a Machine Learning Engineer Co-op at Lockheed Martin, working on real-time aerial detection systems.

Interests outside of work: bodybuilding, making music in FL Studio, and poker.


Experience

Software Developer — Exo Dynamics Co. (Jan 2026 – Present)
Autonomous landing systems for drones using 3D pose estimation, YOLO obstacle avoidance (180K+ images, ~88% val accuracy), Kalman filtering, and optimized OpenCV/Python vision pipelines.

Machine Learning Engineer Co-op — Lockheed Martin (Oct 2025 – Mar 2026)
Real-time detection transformer on 40K+ drone images (~45% mAP), motion-compensated background subtraction, 2D Kalman filtering for bounding-box tracking, and a YOLO-Pose ship deck landing pipeline (≤1° rotational error over 100K+ synthetic renders).

LLM Student Researcher — Drexel University (Jan 2025 – Present)
First-author ICML submission benchmarking 6+ SOTA LLMs across 500+ constraint-planning tasks. Built a 3-stage async inference/evaluation/LLM-judge pipeline and a multi-pass constraint-feedback refinement loop achieving 2–4× accuracy gains.


Skills

Languages — Python, C++, SQL, Bash, TypeScript, JavaScript

ML & Deep Learning — PyTorch, TensorRT, YOLO, Vision/Detection Transformers, Scikit-learn, OpenCV

LLM & NLP — Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain/LangGraph, RAG, Fine-Tuning

Infrastructure — FastAPI, Docker, Linux, Git/GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD, REST APIs, NumPy, Pandas


Projects

PyTorch LayerNorm C++ Extension
High-performance LayerNorm in C++ (LibTorch) with full autograd via Pybind11. 22–58% CPU speedup, 52% Apple GPU improvement, output error <0.01%.

LLM Planning Research
Evaluation framework benchmarking SOTA LLMs (DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o, etc.) on formal constraint-planning. Uncovered up to 90% hard-coded solutions in DeepSeek-R1 outputs. ICML submission.

OncoDeepMind
End-to-end PyTorch pipeline predicting cancer drug response from GDSC genomic data. 32% baseline improvement, deployed with FastAPI for real-time inference.

DragonFlow
Full-stack course scheduling platform for Drexel students. Gradient Boosting model (~90% val accuracy) with Flask inference API, built as Product Owner for a 4-member team.

Asteroid Trajectory Predictor
ML model trained on NASA asteroid data to predict impact probability for potential threats.

Heart Failure Predictor
Interactive web app with a custom-trained model predicting heart failure probability.


Publications

Releasing soon...


Certifications

  • Generative AI with Large Language Models — DeepLearning.AI & AWS (Coursera) · Aug 2024
  • Launching into Machine Learning — Google Cloud (Coursera) · Apr 2025

Connect

LinkedIn · Email · GitHub

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  1. pytorch-cpp-layernorm-accelerator pytorch-cpp-layernorm-accelerator Public

    Implemented a custom LayerNorm forward and backward pass extension in C++ using LibTorch and validated numerical equivalence with PyTorch.

    C++ 1

  2. quant-dsl-backtesting-engine quant-dsl-backtesting-engine Public

    C++ backtesting engine that parses a small strategy DSL (indicators, entry/exit rules, position sizing) and runs it over historic market data.

    C++ 1

  3. llm-csp llm-csp Public

    Leading research project on state-of-the-art LLMs (DeepSeek-R1, GPT-5) evaluated on constraint satisfaction problems, aiming to test the ability of LLMs as formalizers vs. solvers on such problems.

    Python 2

  4. oncodeepmind oncodeepmind Public

    An end-to-end machine learning platform that predicts cancer drug response from genomic data using PyTorch models and a real-time FastAPI-based interface to support precision oncology.

    Python 1

  5. dragonflow dragonflow Public

    Student success planner for Drexel: course recommendations, schedule building, success metrics, and professor insights—all in one app.

    JavaScript 1

  6. rikhil-amonkar rikhil-amonkar Public

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