Rajiv Nagipogu

AI Researcher

Durham, North Carolina, United States8 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • PhD candidate in DNA and Natural Computing.
  • Experience in training and fine-tuning LLMs.
  • Bootstrapped healthcare insights platform using ML.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare-focused AI Researcher with expertise in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Machine Learning

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC++Data StructuresDeep LearningHTMLJavaLinuxNatural Language ProcessingNatural Language Processing (NLP)NumPyProgrammingPyTorchPythonknowledge graphs

About

I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Computer Science department at Duke. My PhD is concentrated in the interdisciplinary field of DNA and Natural Computing. I have been involved in several theoretical works and their experimental demonstrations. I will be open to Post-doc opportunities in a year! Outside my PhD I am well-versed with training and fine-tuning LLMs as a vestige of my professional life prior to PhD. Recently, I worked with a healthtech firm to bootstrap a novel insights platform using clinical knowledge graphs and training graph neural networks from scratch. Previously, I worked on exploring the capabilities of LLMs, first at Kenome.io and later in the Natural Language Understanding team at Google Research, both under the supervision of Prof. Partha Talukdar. I finished my undergrad in the Computer Science department at IIT Madras in 2017. Here, I worked with Prof. Chester Rebeiro (CR) and Prof. Sutanu Chakraborty (SC). My undergraduate thesis under Prof. CR was picked up by Rust's open source newsletter and our NLP project with Prof. SC resulted in a publication. I enjoy tackling unsolved problems and coming up with innovative solutions irrespective of the domain.

Experience

Charmhealth

Research And Development Intern

Jun 2025Aug 2025 · 2 mos · Pleasanton, California, United States · On-site

  • Bootstrapped a novel insights platform for "discovery" in healthcare using machine learning and knowledge graphs.
machine learningknowledge graphsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Domus diagnostics, inc

Research Intern

Jun 2024Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Duke university

PHD Graduate Student

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Google research (through acquisition)

Research Engineer

Jun 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Kenome

Machine Learning Engineer

Dec 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

Paypal

Software Engineer

Aug 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

Flipkart

Intern, Search Semantics Team

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Bangalore

Education

Duke University

Computer Science

Jan 2021Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science and Engg.

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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