Arnav Khinvasara

Engineer. Entrepreneur. Innovator.

M.S. Computer Science at UC San Diego, passionate about building scalable systems and machine learning applications.

City: Los Altos/San Diego, CA
Email: akhinvasara@ucsd.edu
Age: 22
Degree: B.S. + M.S.
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Arnav Khinvasara

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of California, San Diego

September 2024 - December 2025

Specialization in Artificial Intelligence & Computer Systems

Department Website
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis
  • Statistical Natural Language Processing
  • Web Mining and Recommender Systems
  • Data Systems for ML
  • Principles of ML: Learning Algorithms
  • Fair and Transparent ML
  • Computer Security
  • Networked Services
  • Music for ML
  • AI & Society

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of California, Santa Cruz

September 2020 - June 2024

Focus on software engineering, AI, and database systems

Department Website
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Computer System Design & Operating Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Machine Learning & Deep Learning
  • Database Management Systems
  • Theory of Computational Models

Experience

Software Engineer Intern @ Glooko

June 2024 - August 2024

Developed AWS infrastructure solutions to develop certificate monitoring, image management, and BI platform automation.

AWS Terraform SNS Lambda
Glooko

Software Engineer Intern @ Malwarebytes

July 2023 - September 2023

Worked on an AWS migration and Jenkins upgrade across multiple accounts.

AWS Jenkins Terraform CI/CD
Malwarebytes

Software Engineer Intern @ Malwarebytes

June 2022 - September 2022

Engineered a Telemetry Ingestion Web Service to optimize data streaming for 3.5M+ users.

Java Spring Kafka ETL
Malwarebytes

Projects

Steam® Game Recommender System

Personalized game recommendation system using a Steam® Platform dataset leveraging 7.79M ratings/reviews using techniques like SVD, cosine similarity, and matrix factorization.

Python ML SVD Recommender Systems

Fitness Review Sentiment Classifier

NLP pipeline using TextCNN and DistilBERT models to classify user sentiment in fitness app reviews using GloVe embeddings, tokenization, and preprocessing techniques.

Python NLP DistilBERT TextCNN GloVe

WindBorne Weather Analyzer

Interactive Weather Pattern ML Analyzer for ASOS stations featuring real-time data visualization, temperature trend prediction, anomaly detection, and correlation analysis between weather parameters across US weather stations.

JavaScript Leaflet.js Chart.js TensorFlow.js ML Vercel

Stock Market Chrome Extension

Browser extension that displays relevant stock information based on the current website you're browsing (e.g., shows $GOOG data when on Google.com).

JavaScript Chrome API Financial APIs DOM Manipulation

Fairness Analysis: Heart Disease Prediction

The 2020 BRFSS (CDC) heart disease dataset analysis investigated gender fairness, finding class imbalance and higher male prevalence, through the employment of fairness interventions methods to mitigate potential bias.

Fairness Intervention Pandas NumPy Sampling

Multi-Modal Context Boundaries Defense

Defense mechanism evaluation against injection attacks in open-source LLMs. Features programmatic attack generation and boundary protection analysis across Mistral 7B and Llama 3 8B models.

LLM Security Prompt Injection Boundary Defense Python Research

Skills

Core Skills

ML/AI

Backend Development

Cloud Infrastructure

Data Engineering & Analytics

Specialized Areas

Deep Learning

Recommender Systems

RAG/Agentic AI

Natural Language Processing