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Arnav Deshpande

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Machine Learning Engineer at DRDO, Research Centre Imarat, who improved evaluation quality and built tested LLM and agent pipelines.

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At DRDO, Research Centre Imarat (RCI) / DRDL, I improved an evaluation pipeline by replacing a scoring method that under-reported model quality with Normalized Wasserstein Distance. I also benchmarked three detectors across GPUs and traced contradictory dashboard metrics back to their data and evaluation sources.

As an Undergraduate Research Intern at IIT Indore, I exposed a false result in a synthetic-noise control that appeared to show embeddings tracking noise, then shipped the pipeline as a CLI package with 120 automated tests.

In my Evaluation Assurance project, I ranked evaluator verdicts using execution checks to catch incorrect PASS verdicts while sending only a portion of cases to human review. I also built an evaluation harness for EDGAR MCP agent tools, where ambiguous queries were refused correctly in graded runs and accuracy was reported as measured.

My projects include multi-agent decision support with human approval gates, deterministic verification, and an audit log, as well as hybrid RAG that abstains on unsupported answers and attributes responses to sources. I back my training, inference, RAG, and agent pipeline work with tests and written failure analysis.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Machine Learning Intern

DRDO Research Centre Imarat

May 2026 - Jun 2026 (1 month)

Stopped an evaluation pipeline from under-reporting model quality 5x by proving IoU scoring failed on 5-15 px targets and replacing it with Normalized Wasserstein Distance. Benchmarked 3 detectors on accuracy and latency across A10G, L4 and T4 GPUs, and kept wrong conclusions out of review reports for 5 sub-projects.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indian Institute of Technology Indore logoII

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

B.Tech, Space Sciences and Engineering

2023 -

Pursuing a B.Tech in Space Sciences and Engineering (Engineering Physics) at IIT Indore, with coursework in machine learning, probability and statistics, optimization methods, and scientific computing.

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Anthropic

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations, Artificial Intelligence

Completed the AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations certification from Anthropic.

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Coursera

Deep Learning Specialization, Deep Learning

Completed the Deep Learning Specialization and Deep Learning with PyTorch: Image Segmentation courses on Coursera.

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Coursera

Deep Learning with PyTorch: Image Segmentation, Deep Learning

Completed the Deep Learning with PyTorch: Image Segmentation course on Coursera.

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