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AI Researcher & Engineer

Interested in Healthtech Agentic AI AI Infrastructure Simulation Software

Apple SWE Intern
Berkeley EECS '27
BAIR AI Researcher
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01. About

Aswin Surya

I build intelligent systems that push the boundaries of what's possible.

Currently pursuing EECS at UC Berkeley while researching AI safety with Prof. Dawn Song and Prof. Claire Tomlin. Previously shipped production AI at Apple and JustPaid.AI (YC W23).

My work spans multimodal ML, agentic systems, and safety verification: from building CLIP-powered search tools to developing Hamilton-Jacobi algorithms for autonomous systems.

Coca-Cola Scholar Top 150 of 103,000 worldwide
National Merit Scholar Presidential Scholar Semifinalist
Published Researcher arXiv, AGU Fall Meeting

02. Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Apple
Summer 2025

Built AI-driven text-to-image search for Apple Ads using multimodal CLIP. Greenfield initiative, reduced relevancy search from days to seconds.

CLIP Airflow OpenSearch AWS

AI Engineering Intern

JustPaid.AI YC W23
Jan - May 2025

Designed and shipped agentic LangGraph workflow for one-click traceability. Automated validation slashed manual review time by minutes per document.

LangGraph Agents LLMs

AI Research Intern

NASA / UT Austin
2022 - 2023

Developed transformer and CNN models achieving 65% accuracy improvement. First-authored paper on arXiv. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting.

Transformers CNNs Computer Vision

Research Intern

Stanford AIMI Center
Summer 2023

Improved endotracheal tube prediction accuracy by 42% with novel CV models. Selected as top 2% of 1,100 applicants.

Medical AI Regression Computer Vision

Researcher

MIT Beaverworks
Summer 2023

One of 25 selected from 4,000 for Autonomous Cognitive Assistant program. Built music identification, image search, and face recognition models.

Audio ML Face Recognition Search

03. Research

Berkeley AI Research

Agentic Benchmarks

Prof. Dawn Song

Building novel benchmarks for end-to-end website screenshot to code generation. Evaluating frontier models on complex agentic tasks.

Active Research
Hybrid Systems Lab

AI Safety Verification

Prof. Claire Tomlin

Developing data-driven Hamilton-Jacobi safety verification algorithms for controlling systems with unknown dynamics.

Active Research
Published Work

Mosquito Larvae Detection

NASA / UT Austin

Transformer and CNN-based image classification for disease vector surveillance. 65% improvement over baseline models.

Read on arXiv →

04. Projects

Eloquence

Real-time ASL translation web app. Trained and deployed MediaPipe hand-tracking ML model on custom dataset of 400+ images.

React MediaPipe TensorFlow AWS

Cog*Ify

AI music DJ and video generator. Trained CNNs on spectrograms for music identification. Built diffusion model that generates visuals from audio frequency data.

Python CNNs Diffusion Librosa

05. Get in Touch

Building something interesting? Let's talk.