I’m V V S Aakash Kotha, a Software Engineer and AI Systems Researcher pursuing my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of California, Davis.
I specialize in building LLM-driven and data-centric systems that merge scalable software design with applied AI research, from backend architecture to full-stack product engineering.
- TinkerfAI – Full-Stack LLM Platform: Designed a production-ready zero-code ML training app using React + FastAPI + AWS (App Runner, Cognito, DynamoDB, S3); implemented guardrailed GPT-4o prompting and multi-role access workflows.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation – Wang Lab: Architected a cloud-based RAG system with topic-segmented vector stores, query decomposition, and Raptor summarization, reducing retrieval latency by 70%.
- Backend Systems & DevOps: Built CI/CD pipelines with Docker and AWS App Runner; deployed multi-service APIs on AWS with container orchestration and secrets management.
- Silent Speech Decoding – Miller Lab: Synthesized an sEMG → speech pipeline (HuBERT + Tacotron-2) restoring laryngectomy patients’ voices with 82% intelligibility.
- LLM Evaluation – Turing: Built a multi-agent benchmarking framework with LLM-as-a-Judge and consensus validation, auditing GPT-4o vs Gemini 2.5 Pro for reasoning reliability.
- LLM Hallucination Audit: Designed a quantitative framework analyzing hallucination behavior using chi-square tests, z-tests, and logistic regression, revealing a 37% reduction in GPT-4o hallucination rate compared to GPT-3.5.
Languages: Python, Java, C++, R, MATLAB, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript
Frameworks & Libraries: React, FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, LlamaIndex, LangChain, LangGraph
Tools & Platforms: Docker, CI/CD, AWS (S3, DynamoDB), MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Postman, Selenium, Git, Tableau
Concepts: System Design, OOP, Software Architecture, Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, MCP, Computer Vision
- ECE Fellowship – $5,000 for contributions to agentic AI systems
- AWS AI & ML Scholarship Recipient
- UC Davis Teaching Assistant – taught 400 + students through live debugging and personalized guidance
📫 vkotha@ucdavis.edu
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