Ashish Rai

Associate Consultant

New York, New York, United States2 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in Generative Modeling and Deep Learning.
5+ years in distributed systems and performance engineering.
Contributed to impactful open-source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled professional in AI and Cloud Computing sectors.

Contact

rai.ashish115@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentMachine LearningData ScienceInternet Of Things

Other Skills

Data AnalyticsData Pre-processingDeep LearningDiscrete DiffusionDjangoGPU-accelerated Deep LearningGenerative ModelingIoTKerasLMDBMechanistic InterpretabilityPostgresProtocol BuffersPythonTensorflow

About

My areas of focus include Generative Modeling, Mechanistic Interpretability, Discrete Diffusion, and GPU-accelerated Deep Learning. I graduated from NYU with a major in Computer Science, where my projects explored diffusion models, ARC-AGI, and interpretability of large language models. With 5+ years in distributed systems and performance engineering, I enjoy tackling complex technical challenges and contributing to impactful open-source and open-science projects

Experience

5 yrs 1 mo

VMware

– Present

New york university

Graduate Assistant

Jan 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York, New York, United States

Contributed to development and maintenance of NYU Vital (https://github.com/vital2) - A private cloud built with Xen Hypervisor, QEMU, Django, and Postgres which was used by students to complete assignments in virtual machines.

PythonVirtual MachinesCloud ComputingSoftware Development

Make a difference

Shelter Operations Fellow

May 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Looked over all the operations in one of the MAD associated Child Care Institution in Bangalore.
Responsibilties:
1. Was a part of the Evolution Team which set up the digital infrastructure in CCIs during the COVID pandemic
2. Collaborated with multiple stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of MAD interventions in the CCI
3. Support a group of 50+ volunteers in their volunteering journeys

Arya.ai

Applied Deep Learning Researcher Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Used Deep Neural Architectures to classify satellite images.
Developed a generic data pre-processing pipeline for common types of data: images, text, numeric.
Technologies Used: Tensorflow, Keras, LMDB, Protocol Buffers, Twisted
Server.

Deep LearningData Pre-processingMachine LearningData Science