# Arnav Wadhwa

Arnav Wadhwa is an AI product builder and founder working across consumer AI and B2B software.

Canonical profile: https://www.arnav.life/profile

Founder and AI Product Builder, previously ML Research SWE. Based in 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.

## Identity links
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Sh7ovekAAAAJ
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4460-1372
- https://dblp.org/pid/278/8559
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnavwadhwa/
- https://x.com/ardotnav
- https://github.com/ardotnav
- https://www.instagram.com/arnavwadhwa/

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- Research JSON: https://www.arnav.life/research.json