Portrait of Aravinda Raman Jatavallabha

AI ENGINEER / ML SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Aravinda Raman
Jatavallabha.

Production AI systems. Research that ships.

I build LLM and machine-learning products in Python and TypeScript, from retrieval and document pipelines to cloud infrastructure and interfaces people can use.

Currently at Long HealthPython / TypeScript / AWS / LLM systemsCary, North CarolinaResume PDF ↓
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EXPERIENCE & EDUCATIONLong HealthAI EngineerSmartProtectData Science InternNC State UniversityMCS / Teaching AssistantDRDO / CAIRML ResearcherMerkleData Science Intern

01 / SELECTED WORK

AI systems,
in practice.

End-to-end engineering across clinical documentation, public safety forecasting, and adaptive language modeling.

01.2SMARTPROTECT / 2024 - 2025

Public-safety
forecasting.

At SmartProtect, I developed call-volume forecasting and data pipelines to support planning for public safety operations.

Contribution & context

Compared ARIMA, Prophet, and LSTM models; built Airflow and Snowflake pipelines across 1.2M+ dispatch records; and developed staffing recommendations and internal dashboards.

Reported outcomes: 20% improvement in forecast accuracy and 18% reduction in overtime. Baselines and evaluation periods require supporting employer records.

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01.3DRDO / CAIR / 2023

Adaptive models
for evolving text.

My research work explored incremental BERT representations and temporal graph models to capture semantic change in evolving text.

Contribution & context

At CAIR, I worked on streaming NLP and temporal graph learning, with primary responsibility for model design and experiments in the coauthored ICPR paper.

The published work studies incremental dynamic contextualized word embeddings, linking language context with changes over time.

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03 / PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH

Questions explored.
Work shared.

Language models, dynamic representations, and applied machine learning. Published work and work in progress, with their respective records.

Google Scholar

14 research works

PublishedIEEE SoutheastCon / 2026

TrustBench: Benchmarking Trustworthy Large Language Models with Cost and Stability Metrics

Deployment-oriented evaluation of LLM behavior, repeatability, confidence, and cost.

Research summary

Compares five proprietary models across ambiguity, safety, and multi-step tasks with repeated trials. Distinguishes stable behavior from verified task correctness and examines how pricing changes value comparisons.

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PublishedIEEE ICAIC / 2026

Prompting for LLM Security and RAG: A Survey from Zero-Shot to Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) and Prompt-Injection Defenses

Prompting methods and security considerations for retrieval-augmented and other security-sensitive LLM workflows.

Research summary

A practitioner-oriented survey connecting prompting methods, automatic optimization, prompt injection, and RAG poisoning. Organizes methods around accuracy, cost, and security trade-offs.

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PublishedICPR 2024 / Springer

Learning Dynamic Representations in Large Language Models for Evolving Data Streams

Incremental language modeling and dynamic contextualized word embeddings for streaming text.

Research summary

Coauthored research on incremental BERT and dynamic graphs for changes in language over time. My primary contribution was model design and experiments. Springer lists the author as J. Aravinda Raman.

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PublishedIEEE

SDN-Based Multipath Data Offloading Scheme Using Link Quality Prediction for LTE and WiFi Networks

Sequence models for link-quality prediction and data offloading in heterogeneous networks.

Research summary

Studies LSTM and bidirectional LSTM predictions using signal strength and packet data rate to inform LTE/WiFi offloading. My primary contribution was model design and experiments.

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PublishedIEEE

Diabetes Prognosis using Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Classification Algorithms

Comparison of K-nearest neighbors, random forests, and neural networks for diabetes prediction.

Research summary

A comparative modeling study examining preprocessing, feature engineering, and classifier performance. Reported research performance should not be interpreted as clinical validation.

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PublishedIEEE ICAD / 2026

Privacy Awareness in Large Language Models: Input Regurgitation and Prompt-Induced Sanitization for HIPAA and GDPR Compliance

Input regurgitation and prompt-based sanitization in privacy-sensitive LLM applications.

Research summary

Studies sensitive-information leakage and prompting strategies on synthetic inputs. These experiments examine privacy behavior; they do not establish regulatory compliance for a deployed system.

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AcceptedASONAM / 2026

Dynamic Graph Representation Learning using Temporal and Topological Information

Temporal graph learning that combines time-aware message passing, topology, and node information.

Research summary

The TDGNN framework investigates prediction in dynamic interaction networks using temporal information and graph structure.

Accepted
Publication link pending
PreprintarXiv / 2024

Tesla's Autopilot: Ethics and Tragedy

Ethical analysis of autonomous-driving incidents, responsibility, and system limitations.

Research summary

A case study applying a seven-step ethical decision-making process to user behavior, technology limitations, and policy considerations.

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PreprintarXiv / 2024

Deciphering Air Travel Disruptions: A Machine Learning Approach

Regression and sequence-model comparisons for flight-delay prediction.

Research summary

Examines delay components and flight characteristics using regression models and LSTM variants. Explores which factors can inform flight planning.

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PreprintarXiv / 2022

Pediatric Bone Age Assessment using Deep Learning Models

Comparative evaluation of pretrained convolutional networks for bone-age assessment.

Research summary

Compares VGG-16, InceptionV3, XceptionNet, and MobileNet using error measures on pediatric X-ray data.

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Under reviewManuscript

Using Transformer-Based Models to Optimize Inventory Replenishment Decisions in Dynamic E-Commerce Markets

Attention-based modeling for inventory decisions under changing demand and seasonality.

Research summary

Investigates multi-head attention for historical sales, promotions, pricing, and external signals. This work is under review; no publication is claimed.

Under review
No public link
ManuscriptAuthor-hosted

Improving Fairness in Visual Recognition through Feature Distillation and Adversarial Debiasing

Feature distillation and representation learning for fairness in visual recognition.

Research summary

Explores an MMD-based distillation objective to reduce disparity while maintaining task performance. A manuscript, with no peer-reviewed publication status claimed.

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ManuscriptAuthor-hosted

Multimodal Conversation Derailment Detection: An Integrated Framework for Early Risk Assessment

Combining language and visual features to study conversation derailment.

Research summary

A hierarchical transformer approach integrating BERT-based text encoding and visual features. Shared as an author-hosted manuscript.

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ManuscriptAuthor-hosted

Graph Contrastive Learning for Optimizing Sparse Data in Recommender Systems with LightGCL

A manuscript exploring graph contrastive learning and sparse recommendation data.

Research summary

Examines SVD-based augmentation and collaborative graph representations. This listing does not claim invention of the existing LightGCL method.

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Publication links are provided where available. Accepted work, preprints, and manuscripts are listed separately from published papers. Research summaries are concise descriptions, not verbatim abstracts.

05 / SERVICE & RECOGNITION

Beyond
my own work.

Peer reviewing, teaching, and participation in the research community.

IEEEACCESS

JANUARY 2026 - PRESENT

Invited reviewer / AI & ML

Invited to review AI and machine learning manuscripts for IEEE Access, evaluating technical quality, originality, methodology, and clarity.

No public completed-review count is claimed.

JMIRPUBLICATIONS

AUGUST 2026 - PRESENT

Invited reviewer / medical AI

Invited by JMIR Publications to review submitted research manuscripts in AI with a focus on medicine.

Science and technology / medical AI

NC STATEUNIVERSITY

AUGUST 2024 - MAY 2025

Teaching & mentorship

Graduate teaching assistant for Automated Learning and Data Analysis and Real-Time AI and Machine Learning Systems.

Supported project evaluation, grading rubrics, model selection, and efficient inference.

INDUSTRY RECOGNITIONStellar Team AwardMerkle internship cohort

Team recognition for the internship project.

04 / PROJECTS & CODE

Ideas you can inspect.

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01 / LLM APPLICATION

CoveredAI

A health-insurance document assistant for questions, summaries, plan comparison, and PDF reports.

React / Flask / LangChain / FAISS

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02 / RETRIEVAL

Legal Query AI Assistant

Retrieval-augmented document question answering using language models and vector search.

GPT / LangChain / RAG

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03 / COMPUTER VISION

Lane Detection

SegNet and LSTM-based lane detection, lane curvature, and vehicle-offset estimation from video.

SegNet / LSTM / OpenCV

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04 / TIME SERIES

Store Demand Forecasting

Item-level sales forecasting with neural networks and comparisons against statistical and tree-based models.

CNN / BiLSTM / XGBoost

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05 / ML PIPELINES

Customer Churn Prediction

A machine learning pipeline spanning orchestration, training, model storage, and API-based inference.

Airflow / AWS / Docker / Flask

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06 / MEDICAL IMAGING

Brain MRI Segmentation

U-Net segmentation of brain MRI images for pixel-level tumor-region prediction.

U-Net / TensorFlow / Keras

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07 / LLM APPLICATION

Cold Email Generator

Matches job descriptions with portfolio skills through retrieval to draft personalized outreach.

LLaMA3 / ChromaDB / Streamlit

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08 / GENERATIVE VISION

Image-to-Image Translation

Unpaired image translation across visual domains using a CycleGAN.

CycleGAN / PyTorch

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09 / DATABASE SYSTEMS

Wolf Parking

A database management project for parking operations.

Database management

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10 / MEDICAL IMAGING

Chest X-ray Classification

A research project exploring COVID-19 classification from chest X-ray images.

Deep learning / Computer vision

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11 / RECOMMENDATION

Movie Recommendation

Collaborative filtering for personalized movie recommendations.

Recommender systems

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11 projects

02 / EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

Engineer first.
Researcher by practice.

I work where machine learning meets the complexity of real software and real data.

My path spans academic research, public safety analytics, retail data engineering, and clinical AI. Across these settings, I focus on connecting model behavior to the systems and workflows around it.

I hold a Master of Computer Science from North Carolina State University, with a Data Science specialization, and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Manipal Institute of Technology.

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2025 - Present

AI Engineer

Long Health / clinical AI

2024 - 2025

Data Science Intern / Co-op

SmartProtect / public safety ML

2024 - 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant

NC State / ML systems

2023

Machine Learning Researcher

DRDO / CAIR / streaming NLP

2022

Data Science Intern

Merkle / retail ML

2021 - 2022

Machine Learning Researcher

Manipal / medical imaging

Engineering outcomes

Long Health

Document and retrieval workflows with reported 35% higher throughput, 50% less documentation and triage time, and 99.9% uptime. Built OCR, ICD-10 inference, transcription, and monitoring workflows.

SmartProtect

Forecasting and staffing systems across 1.2M+ dispatch records, with reported 20% higher forecast accuracy, 35% faster ML updates, and 22% workforce-utilization gain.

Merkle

Led a four-person team across 10M+ retail records; reported 10% campaign-profitability uplift and 40% query-latency improvement through ML and data engineering.

NC State

Master of Computer Science

North Carolina State University / 2023 - 2025

Data Science specialization / GPA 4.0 of 4.0

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Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology

Manipal Institute of Technology / 2019 - 2023

Information Technology / GPA 8.64 of 10

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Technical toolkit

AI & modeling

PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, PyG, LangChain, RAG, OpenAI, Hugging Face, LLaMA, ChromaDB, prompt engineering, privacy-aware ML

Software & data

Python, SQL, TypeScript, Angular, NestJS, Flask, REST APIs, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Spark, Snowflake, Airflow

Infrastructure & delivery

AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, ECR, SageMaker, Azure, RabbitMQ, Docker, Git, Power BI, Tableau, OCR / Document AI

Professional learning & certificates

06 / COLLEAGUE PERSPECTIVES

From the people
I've worked with.

“His attention to detail, analytical insight, and dedication have made him an invaluable asset to our team.”
Jason KlinkPublic Safety Professional / Co-Founder, SmartProtectDirect manager / October 30, 2024LinkedIn profile ↗
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I've had the pleasure of working with Aravinda Jatavallabha as part of the SmartProtect Public Safety Solutions team, where he served as a Data Science Intern over the past six months. Aravinda's contributions to building out our predictive analytics framework for public safety have been both impactful and highly innovative. His work, especially in structuring and analyzing complex datasets, significantly advanced our ability to deliver tailored, data-driven solutions to our clients.

Aravinda brings deep technical expertise to his work, combined with a genuine commitment to understanding and solving client challenges in public safety. His attention to detail, analytical insight, and dedication made him an invaluable asset to our team, and his contributions will continue to benefit both our company and the customers we serve.

“He was a valued team member with great communication skills and someone I trusted to bring both integrity and innovation to the table.”
Ricardo BlancoCRO / Co-Founder, SmartProtectDirect manager / June 27, 2025LinkedIn profile ↗
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I had the pleasure of working with Aravinda during his time at SmartProtect, where he made a lasting impact on our AI/ML initiatives. From day one, he brought thoughtfulness and a sharp technical mindset to every challenge. Whether he was building early prototypes or helping us think through how machine learning could meaningfully support public safety operations, Aravinda consistently delivered high-quality work and insightful ideas.

What stood out most was his willingness to dive deep, learn fast, and look for ways to make the work better, not just from a technical standpoint, but in a way that aligned with the mission of serving first responders. He was a valued team member with great communication skills and someone I trusted to bring both integrity and innovation to the table.

Any team would be lucky to have Aravinda on board, and I'm excited to see where his journey takes him next.

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07 / CONTACT

Let's build something
worth putting
into practice.

For applied AI engineering opportunities, research collaborations, and conversations about dependable AI systems.

aravindaraman14@gmail.com ↗