Arnav Wadhwa
Arnav Wadhwa is an AI product builder and founder working across consumer AI and B2B software.
Founder and AI Product Builder, previously ML Research SWE. · India
Current work
Independent founder and product builder
Contact: arwadhwa@ucsd.edu
Experience
- Founder and product builder, Independent (2024–present)
- Founding Engineer, InferenceBook, Inc. (2024–2025)
- Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs (2023–2024) — Worked on real-time provider ranking and billion-scale time-series data hygiene.
- Machine Learning Researcher, ACES Lab, UC San Diego (2022–2023)
- Machine Learning Engineer, MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi (2020–2021) — Worked on quantitative trading and applied NLP in India’s most well-published research team in 2021.
- Machine Learning Engineer, CSIR, India AI Mission (2018–2020)
- Software Engineering Intern, Indian Space Research Organisation (2017–2018)
- Machine Learning Intern, CEERI, Government of India (2017–2017) — Built real-time FPGA eye-blink detection software with 99%+ accuracy.
Education
- MS, Computer Science, University of California San Diego (2021–2023); 4.0/4.0
- B.Tech, GGSIPU, Delhi; Final-year department rank #4
Research highlights
- Face Unlock work reached 1.1M+ devices.
- Teams in 400+ cities across 60+ countries use Arnav’s work.
- Published 12 papers, including 10+ in under two years.
- Reached 100 citations in 2022.
- YC reported the application was in the top 10% of applicants.
- Runner-up among 110 teams at the Dr. Homi Bhabha National Innovation Challenge.
- Received the Outstanding Paper Award at COLING 2020.
- The COLING paper was designated top 16 among 2,319 submissions.
- All three COLING reviewers gave the paper 5/5.
- The core COLING research was completed in a two-week research window.
- ICDM accepted 91 papers from 930 submissions.
Personal interests
Runs and lifts 5–6 times a week.