hi! i'm arav.

i'm an AI researcher, quant, and obssessive builder. currently @ amplitude and post-training foundation models for scientific discovery.

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cool things i've done:

• made a bootstrapped data cleaning company, starting off a $5k grant for winning buildspace
• founded a quant fund in high school with ex-Bridgewater devs, ex-Amazon AI devs, and the CTO of a crypto exchange
• invented a new type of charitable giving vehicle, the CGRT, by combining insurance products with charitable remainder trusts
• made a carbon-capture filter for cars and won international entrepreneurship competitions for it in middle school

cool things i've built:

• whitebox: agents for multimodal data cleaning the video that started it all
• kay: self-enabling AI agent that builds it's own tools and placed 4th at an MIT hackathon
• aeras: car tailpipe carbon capture filter that removes 90% of Carbon Dioxide/Monoxide using polyethylenimine hydrogel beads
• gated memory unit: a new RNN architecture that was 4x more efficient and my first published paper

cool places i've worked/consulted for:

• Oak Ridge National Lab: AI researcher on a ton of different teams
• Charles Schwab: created charitable giving vehicles with their charitable arm
• A bunch of different startups: Ondara, Distru, etc.

i go to school in Boston, but i usually work in Kendall Square, and you can probably find me in San Francisco.

reach out here:
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