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Akhil Agnihotri

I am currently an Applied Scientist at AWS in the Agentic AI org. Prior to this, I was a PhD student at the University of Southern California advised by Prof. Rahul Jain.

During my PhD, I was supported by the Capital One PhD Fellowship and the Annenberg Fellowship, and was fortunate to collaborate with Google DeepMind, Netflix, and Qualcomm.

Prior to my PhD, I was a Quantitative Researcher at JPMorgan Chase & Co. working towards market-aware revenue outlier detection. During my undergraduate years, I was fortunate enough to work with Prof. Ding Zhao at Carnegie Mellon University on indoor SLAM and LiDAR sensor optimization. During Summer '18, I interned at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and worked on closed-loop control algorithms for nuclear reactor safe robots.

I obtained my B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani in 2020.

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News

  • Jan 26

    Back in the industry at AWS working on agentic solutions. The student phase of life is over?

  • Dec 25

    Defended my PhD thesis after long and exciting 4.5 years. Grateful to everyone involved!

  • May 25

    Excited to start at Netflix as a Research Scientist Intern. Hoping to get a free subscription :)

  • May 24

    Started at Qualcomm as a Machine Learning Scientist Intern. Off to 'Birthplace of California'!

  • May 23

    Started at Google as an AI Resident. Off to the Bay!

  • Apr 21

    Awarded the Annenberg Fellowship by the University of Southern California. Excited for the journey!

  • Oct 20

    Started at JPMorgan as a Quantitative Researcher. Hello Mumbai!

  • Aug 20

    Attending Research School hosted by the Max Planck Institute, Germany.

  • Jul 20

    Graduated from BITS Pilani with my Bachelor's.

  • Jun 19

    Received Travel Grant for conducting research at CMU. To the mecca of robotics!

  • Mar 19

    Awarded the DAAD-WISE scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service to conduct research at TU Munich. Danke Deutschland!

  • May 18

    Summer internship Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research - one of India's largest nuclear reactor establishment.

  • Aug 16

    Started my undergraduate life at BITS Pilani with focus on mechanical engineering and data science.