Aditya Pandhare

Computer Scientist Machine Learning Deep Learning Data Analysis Artificial Intelligence Software Development Web Development

Hi. I’m
Aditya Pandhare

A passionate computer scientist specializing in AI, Machine/Deep Learning, Software Engineering and Data Analysis
I dedicate my craft to developing projects which have impact and solve real world problems. Check out some of my projects and feel free to get in touch!

Education

New York University Abu Dhabi - Graduated May 2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - CGPA: 3.92 / 4.00

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Experiences

Software Developer Engineer

Jan 2026 - Present | noon

AI Backend Engineer

Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 | CarbonFlow AI

Designed a centralized SaaS platform for corporate carbon compliance with the CEO.
Built core backend software to automate emission reporting & dashboards for SMEs.
Built an AI engine to scan documents, extract emission factors & power live dashboards.

AI Engineer

Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 | DX Future Tech

Led AI development across platforms for major real-estate & government clients.
Optimized AI-search SEO, hitting top keyword rankings ~95% of the time.
Rebuilt DocuzApp to automate Salesforce document workflows with AI.

AI Model Trainer

Aug 2025 - Oct 2025 | Handshake AI - OpenAI

Partnered with leading AI research labs (OpenAI) to evalute & train cutting-edge LLMs
Assessed 1,000+ QA LLM outputs based on reasoning, summarization, and dialogue benchmarks.
Reviewed 100+ GenAI images to identify visual inconsistencies and enhance GenAI models.
Delivered evaluation reports that directly shaped model retraining.

Laboratory Assistant

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 | New York University Abu Dhabi

Trained 50+ students & faculty on 3D printers, soldering & laser cutters.
Ran 5+ tool trainings for fabrication equipment.
Built an automated inventory database, cutting lookup time by ~45%.
Guided physical computing projects, debugging interactive prototypes.
Acted as lead technical support, keeping all lab tools operational & safe.

GenAI | Backend Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 | Aistra Labs

Built two Ed-tech LLM-powered chatbots, cutting teacher's workload by ~20%.
Added multilingual support in 40+ languages via translation pipelines for LLM-generated content.
Authored open-source MarkGDoc: a library to convert AI generated outputs directly to Google Docs instantly.
Optimized and refactored the backend software into reusable, modular routes for faster prototyping and testing.

Job Shadow Intern

Jan 2019 - Feb 2019 | 3M LTD. Gulf

Shadowed departments across Finance, Marketing, HR & R&D.
Conducted primary/secondary research on selected product lines & competitors in the Gulf region.
Presented competitive analyses & improvement strategies to department leads.

Publications

vER: Virtual Human Companionship for Patients in Preoperative Care

May 2025 | IMX - ACM Conference

Developed a VR application that uses AI-driven virtual agents to provide social support to pre-operative surgery patients. Unlike typical VR interventions focused on meditation or procedural info, our approach leverages virtual social presence to reduce stress.

My Projects

Machine Translation Transformer

A self-built transformer from scratch trained to translate sentences from English to Italian. Based on the Attention is all you need paper.

#Transformers #Self-Attention #Translation

Real-time EEG Emotion Detection

A real-time EEG-based system that detects emotions using deep learning and provides adaptive feedback in mixed reality to support emotion regulation.

#EEG #Deep Learning #Mixed Reality

AI Health Assistant

A conversational AI health assistant where users can speak to the AI agent to provide personalized health recommendations.

#Healthcare #Conversational AI

PersonaVerse

An AI agent webapp that creates personalized AI avatar agents with personas to which users can talk to.

#Chatbots #AI Agents

AuraVoice

AuraVoice is a web application that utilizes machine learning to convert your voice into a musical composition.

#Voice-MIDI #CREPE Model

Elemental Mastery

A machine learning (ml5) hand-detection creative installation inspired from Avatar the Last Airbender: control all the elements!

#ml5 #Handpose Detection

School Creativity & PISA Scores: Correlation Study

A cross-country correlation study linking school creativity resources to PISA outcomes (2015–2022), with analyses by GDP tier and COVID-lockdown exposure.

#OECDPISA #Data Science #Social Sciences

Seora: Startup Pitch Analyzer via Corrective RAG

A corrective RAG agent that evaluates startup pitches by combining uploaded documents with real-time web search for market and competitive insights.

#RAG #AI Agents #Startup Analytics