# Varun G. > Founding AI Engineer @ WisdomAI | MS CS, UIUC | IIT Kanpur | Google AI 4 SG Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/varung 🌐 NLP Researcher | Data Scientist | Tech Enthusiast πŸš€ Skilled in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Traditional ML techniques. I build (or break) AI software tools in my free time. Beyond the code, I've clinched πŸ…medal in the Indian National Physics Olympiad and Junior Science Olympiad, and secured AIR 146 among 1.6 million candidates in IIT JEE. Secured funding for research by Amazon during Master's and Google during undergraduate in NLP and Vision. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer - AI @ WisdomAI Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ❏ Text to SQL LLM pipeline quality and performance ❏ Unstructured document and large text columns AI processing. Contextually backed AI answers. PDF document parsing, hybrid RAG, retrieval, summarization, and analysis ❏ Database context formulation and prompt engineering for your enterprise SQL ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Machine Learning Intern @ Leena AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ❏ Trained a reward language model for customer-hosted proprietary ranking and retrieval pipelines ❏ Eval building and human feedback infrastructure ### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Solana Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Summer Internship ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ❏ Building a lifestyle coach AI-assistant to assist cancer patients. Combining Entity Recognition, Summarization, Sentiment Analysis, and Language Modeling techniques to assess the user search behavior and their responses. ❏ The analysis forms the base for personalized guidance across their cancer continuum in symptom management and treatment choices ### Quantitative Strategist @ Quadeye Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Gurugram, Haryana, India ❏ Experimented with arbitrage strategies and simulated PnLs; understood basics of trading, market making, and quantitative analysis ### Software Enginner Intern @ Rubrik, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Team: Galactus - Cloud Native Data Backup ❏ Transformed the updated permissions access interface to organize it in an easy-to-interpret format to bring transparency ❏ Provided clients with newly designed permission to feature mapping to remove areas of doubt ❏ Implemented and productionized the solutions for both AWS and Azure with different underlying architectures ❏ Took complete ownership of the project across the tech stack consisting of Golang, Scala, ReactJS, and Python ❏ Decreased ambiguity and turnaround time of the process, reducing the support tickets raised to the cloud team by 80% ### Research Intern @ University of Florida Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Florida, United States Area: Computer Vision applied to Medical Imaging for Cancer Detection ❏ Researched on developing computer vision techniques for early detection of breast cancer from MRI scans. ❏ Surveyed Deep Convolutional Neural Nets and their applications in image classification, labeling, and segmentation. ❏ Understood the Riemannian manifolds and their related mathematical theorems. ❏ Achieved the highest accuracy by implementing a model improved from U‑net to do image segmentation. ### Software Engineering Intern @ CleverTap Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Team: Mobile User Tracking and Notifications ❏ Surveyed space-filling curves and divided the earth into S2 cells using the Hilbert curve. Mapped the cells to cities using a modified Flood-Fill algorithm. ❏ Optimized the algorithm to assign a city for given coordinates resulting in the reduction of the time complexity for 95% of queries from linear to constant time. ❏ Designed and implemented a compression algorithm that reduced memory consumption by four times. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/varungoyal23 --- Source: https://flows.cv/varung JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/varung/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05