Vinayak Dhruv

Co-Founder

College Park, Maryland, United States5 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered India's first LLM chatbot for Indic languages.
  • Achieved 93.4% task-chain accuracy using LLM-as-Judge.
  • Invented Proximity Unlock technology for OLA e-Scooters.
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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Large Language Models (llm)Data ScienceMachine Learning

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAlgorithmsAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Applied Machine LearningArtificial Neural NetworksC ++Cloud ComputingCommunicationComputer VisionConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Data AnalysisData StructuresData VisualizationDeep Learning

About

At Cohere, contributions focus on advancing foundational LLM architectures and multi-agent reasoning systems. Recent efforts enhanced disaster recovery workflows for microservices and increased task-chain accuracy using LLM-as-Judge methodologies. Pursuing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Maryland, with research on efficient Mixture of Experts (MoE) and multimodal reasoning systems. Passionate about delivering scalable, interpretable, and efficient AI solutions for enterprise applications.

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Cohere

AI Research Intern

May 2025Nov 2025 · 6 mos

  • Working on building evaluation strategies and frameworks Agentic workflows with reasoning capabilities of our flagship models with a focus on enterprise environments that attained 93.4 % end-to-end task-chain accuracy (↑18 pp vs. baseline), using LLM-as-Judge approaches and architectures.
  • Architected a full-stack, tool-use agent that orchestrates disaster recovery for 240+ micro-services; convinced the client to migrate 100% of their workloads to Cohere.
Large Language Models (LLM)disaster recovery workflowsmicroservicesLLM-as-Judge methodologiesArtificial Intelligence (AI)

University of maryland

Student Researcher

Aug 2024Mar 2025 · 7 mos · College Park, Maryland, United States

  • Worked on efficient architectures in LLMs and MLLMs under Prof. Tianyi Zhou. Researched on efficient MOE architectures, developed better and more optimal expert training strategies.
Mixture of Experts (MoE)LLMsmultimodal reasoning systemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Large Language Models (LLM)

Krutrim

Founding AI Researcher

Jul 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban · On-site

  • Pioneered the innovation of India’s first LLM Chatbot for Indic languages as a founding member, leading research across MoE, Multimodal Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ELMo, BERT, OpenAI GPT-2/3, BART, BigBird, ERNIE.
  • Automated 60% of customer interactions by outperforming LLama2 Chat SFT on benchmarks such as COPA, ARC and HellaSwag, through optimization and fine-tuning using SFT, Peft-LoRA, DPO, and CPT.
  • Engineered the Orchestrator pipeline and Web-RAG architecture for the Krutrim Chatbot. Enhanced the Wav2Lip model for multilingual lip-syncing, increasing resolution by 12%, handled the audio diarization and identification pipeline.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)MoEMultimodal SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Ola electric

Data Scientist

Jun 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru

  • Collaborated in reinforcement learning research, boosting driver allocation efficiency and generating a 5% increase in revenue.
  • Invented Proximity Unlock technology for OLA e-Scooters with a 93.7% accuracy using on Transformers and LSTMs.
  • Developed a Criticality Score prediction model with 90+% accuracy to prioritize and resolve high-impact customer issues, and deployed a State-of-Health (SoH) prediction model for e-scooter batteries, achieving 92.7% accuracy.
Statistical Data AnalysisReinforcement LearningComputer VisionData ScienceMachine Learning

Amazon

Machine Learning Engineer

Feb 2022Jun 2022 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Worked as a Machine Learning engineer in the advertisement team for building models to predict when advertiser will go out of balance based on their history, also worked on the deployment of the model on AWS and analyse the data flow.
Cloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Time Series AnalysisApplied Machine LearningMachine LearningData Science

Venuemonk

Data Science Intern

Dec 2020Mar 2021 · 3 mos

  • Worked as a Data Science engineer, responsible for automation and deployment of various recommendation and venue ranking systems on the company site, analyzing the data, making user-specific changes on the site.

Xero tech

Co-Founder

Nov 2020Feb 2021 · 3 mos

  • Co-Founded a Traffic Count and Tracking venture, implemented advanced object detection algorithms for traffic monitoring, optimizing vehicle tracking within the application; achieved 93% accuracy rate in identifying vehicle types and toll collection data.
Amazon S3

The travel back

Data Science Intern

Oct 2020Dec 2020 · 2 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Worked in the ML team for building and reviewing recommendation models, using various ML approaches and compiling them.
  • Worked as the team lead in Data collection and scraping, for hiking destination sites and booking hotel sites, cleaning and analyzing datasets, and as a Team-lead for Recommendation models based on clustering for restaurant recommendation.

Unmanned ground vehicle dtu

3 roles

Team Captain

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Led one of the most renowned Teach-Team of DTU, in the field of AI and Robotics. Worked with a team of aspiring students of DTU in building bots that are autonomous, working on participating in international competitions like IGVC-2021, and also hackathons for bot simulations and research in the same.

Head Of Department, Navigation

Promoted

Aug 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr

  • Worked as the Head of Navigation Dept. of UGV, a Tech Team in Delhi College of Engineering.
  • Worked on a project of creating a self driving, autonomous unmanned ground vehicle, using Machine Vision and Deep learning concepts, to participate in IGVC-2020, built navigation stacks for the bot, experimented and incorporated various ML and computer Vision methods for auto-navigation tasks and simulations and taught juniors for the same.

Member of the Machine Vision department of the Team

Feb 2019Aug 2019 · 6 mos

  • Worked under seniors of the Tech-Team and learnt methods of Computer Vision for autonomous vehicles, ROS platform and frameworks and started contributing to bots and navigation stacks.

Calibre_dtu

Student Researcher

May 2020Jul 2020 · 2 mos · Delhi, India

  • Worked as a Research Intern, building projects and processing datasets for issues and real life problems like Antiviral-drug prediction for Covid-19, with a group of other students.
Amazon S3

Rout innovations

Research And Development Intern

Jan 2020Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Work from home

  • Worked as a Research Intern for implementing and improving ML and Deep Learning solutions and techniques on real life problems and projects based on them.
  • Worked on building a NLP based LSTM Model for analysing the Reviews on a particular product provided on Youtube by consumers, compare these views and generate a score based on the type of reviews for that product, after scraping the transcripts of the videos via Youtube API.
  • Developed an AI model using Deep Learning techniques like SVM Segmentation and YOLO Object Detection to detect and classify the type of vehicle in a on road camera video and predict the direction of motion for the vehicle.

Inferno dtu

Worked in the Machine Vision department

Aug 2018Jan 2019 · 5 mos · DCE Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi

  • Worked for creating the image processing codes for the Rover, building software networking using ROS and making the project autonomous.

Education

University of Maryland

Masters — Artificial Intelligence

Aug 2024May 2026

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2022

Arwachin International School

Jan 2004Jan 2018

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