Saksham K.
Undergraduate ML Researcher @ CDL, Asycd Labs, Algoverse | 8x Hackathon Judge | AI/ML Fellow @ Cornell, AWS, Handshake | VP @ BigTh!nk AI, SALC | Judging @ White House AI Presidential Challenge | AI Project Lead @ AI4ALL
- Role
- Fellow at Startup Shell
- Location
- College Park, MD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Saksham K.
I specialize in bridging the gap between ML Research and Production Systems. I focus on architecting high-throughput pipelines and AI agents designed for real-world scale and reliability. Engineering Impact: High-Scale Systems: Built and deployed production-grade microservices handling 40k events/min and pipelines processing 1M+ events/sec. ML Optimization: Developed models achieving a 73x accuracy lift and 28x inference speedup for use in production environments. Proven Versatility: Shipped 70+ projects across domains like FinTech, Health, and Cybersecurity, ranging from LLM fine-tuning to Graph-aware ML. Research & Leadership: Institutional Affiliations: ML Fellow @ Cornell, AI4ALL, AWS & Handshake AI; ML Researcher @ UMD. Industry Voice: State Judge for White House\'s AI Presidential Challenge. Judged hackathons such as HackGT, HackTX, Bitcamp, Hacklytics, Anthropic X Maryland and TartanHacks. Research Validation: Peer Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025. Selected to present AI research at Amazon HQ2 for AWS-MLU Fall Research & Teaching Symposium, and reviewer for faculty AI research at Amazon\'s AWS-MLU Spring Research & Teaching Symposium. Presented 1st-author Applied ML Research at ISDP 2025, winning a merit-based travel award reserved for Top 50 Abstracts. Community: Vice President at BigTh!nk AI, Vice President of Administration at SALC
Experience
Fellow
Mar 2026 — Present · College Park, MD, US
UMD\'s Startup Incubator
Education
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Bachelor of Science - BS
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science - BS
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