Nikhil Advani
AI Engineer @ University at Buffalo | AWS Certified | ML | Gen AI | LLMs | RAG | Agents | NLP | Python | SQL | Actively Seeking Full time opportunities in Data Science/AI/ML
- Role
- Ai Research Scientist at University At Buffalo Pharmacy And Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nikhil Advani
I’m Nikhil Advani, recent Grad from University at Buffalo with 3+ years of experience…
Experience
Ai Research Scientist
University At Buffalo Pharmacy And Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jun 2024 — Present · US
Engineered a RAG chatbot with LoRA fine-tuning on 10k+ drug documents, optimizing latency GPU use• Implemented real-time Kafka + Spark pipeline, orchestrated via Airflow to store data in S3, cutting ingestion latency by 90%• Optimized retrieval with ensemble retriever (BM25+MMR) & FlashRank reranker, cutting response latency from 60s to 5s• Enhanced inference efficiency via model quantization and prompt-tuning, reducing GPU use by 40% across experiments• Automated CI/CD & deployment using MLflow + Docker/Kubernetes, maintaining 99% uptime across 200+ daily requests• Established a model governance framework to track metrics (BLEU, ROUGE, faithfulness, fairness) across model versions• Authored internal research report on RAG optimization & fine-tuning best practices, influencing LLM adoption roadmap• Accelerated the manual research workflow, reducing 36 hours of manual review to a 5-minute autogenerated insights report
Education
Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
2018 — 2022
University at Buffalo
Masters of Professional Studies
2023 — 2024
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