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Utkarsh Lal

Current Masters in Computer Science student at University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Computer Science graduate from University of California, Los Angeles

Graduate Research Assistant at TrustML, working on my dream inter-discipline of Robotics. Working on VLM reasoning and VLA distillation papers. Will have some updates soon.
Undergraduate Student Researcher at Scalable Analytics Institute lab where I worked on CV projects like trying to improve glaucoma detection through contrastive learning. See my paper contribution on information extraction and text systhesis generation here
Research assistant at Amazon Science and Peng's Language Understanding & Synthesis Lab working on computational humor in LLMs
Undergraduate Student Researcher at the Brain and AI lab at UCLA (The Roychowdhury Group) where I learnt what does ML research mean as a freshman

Incoming ML Infra Intern at Nuro working on the Data Platform Team
Data Science Intern at Price.com building data pipelines to streamline consistent product keyword extraction and handle users personas based on their engagement/shopping activity.
AI Engineering Intern at GumGum, working on their first generative AI tools to handle internal Jira capitalization and DSPy fine-tuning.
Foudning team engineer at Actuals building SaaS products for small business buyers to cut down the acquisition process.
Full stack SWE Intern at NutriTap Technologies working on their patented vending machines, B2B portal, and microservices
Backend SWE intern at Pullscription, working on their web tools, APIs, and testing to bring the largest comic book stores on the web