Rithvik Senthil

ML and NLP Enthusiast

About

Master's student in Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University with a passion for advancing natural language processing and computer vision. Currently working as a GenAI Intern at Scale AI, training frontier LLM models for complex reasoning tasks.

Currently at Scale AI

Education

Master of Science in Computational Data Science

Dec 2025

Carnegie Mellon University

GPA: 3.95/4.0
Generative AI Advanced NLP Cloud Computing

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

May 2024

College of Engineering, Guindy

GPA: 9.72/10
Deep Learning Machine Learning Big Data Analytics

Experience

GenAI Intern

May 2025 - Present

Scale AI • San Francisco, CA

Training frontier LLM models to perform complex reasoning tasks.

LLMs PyTorch Reasoning

Research Intern

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Developed metrics for ASR systems in code-mixed speech, reducing evaluation time by 30%.

ASR ESPNet Speech Processing

Summer Analyst

Jun 2023 - Jul 2023

Morgan Stanley • Bengaluru, India

Built AngularJS portal integrating with Power BI for risk management workflow optimization.

AngularJS Power BI Risk Management

Research

FOLIAGE: Conversational Forecasting

Carnegie Mellon University • May 2025 - Present

Exploring LLM-generated intentions and summaries for outcome prediction in task-oriented dialogues, capturing negotiation strategies and concession patterns.

LLMs Dialogue Systems Forecasting
Active Research

Universal Adversarial Perturbation Attack

College of Engineering, Guindy • Published at ICITIIT 2023

Implemented adversarial attacks on Inception-ResNet-v1 and studied adversarial retraining as a defense mechanism.

Adversarial ML Computer Vision Security
Published IEEE Xplore

Featured Projects

Active

Mathematical Reasoning Attention

Modified transformer attention mechanism for mathematical reasoning, achieving 4x improvement in pass@1 score.

4x Improvement
100% Inference Only
Transformers Attention Math Reasoning
Active

WayBuddy: Navigation Assistant

iOS navigation app for visually-impaired users using Apple CoreML, Vision, and SLAM reconstruction.

iOS Platform
SLAM Tech
iOS SLAM Computer Vision
Completed

ChunkedCodeRAG

Enhanced CodeRAG-Bench with semantic chunking, achieving 31% improvement on ODEX dataset.

31% Improvement
ODEX Dataset
RAG Code Generation NLP

Technical Skills

AI/ML

PyTorch TensorFlow Transformers LLMs RAG

Computer Vision

SLAM Object Detection ARKit CoreML

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure GCP Docker Kubernetes

Programming

Python Java C++ JavaScript Swift

Let's Connect

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Location

Pittsburgh, PA

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