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Contact

Name Arnav Rastogi
Email arnavrastogi.543@gmail.com
Website https://arnav.rastogi.net.in/
LinkedIn arnav-rastogi-6b868a22a
GitHub ARC345

Research Interests

  • State-Space Models (Mamba/SSD), Linear-Time Sequence Models, Hardware-Aware Selective Scan, Hybrid Attention-SSM Models, Mechanistic Interpretability, Recurrent-Depth & Looped Transformers (Ouro/TRM/HRM), Scaling Laws.

Education

  • 2025 - 2029
    BS
    Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
    Applied AI and Data Science
    • Core focus on Deep Learning, Linear Algebra, and Statistical Inference.
  • 2024 - 2026
    MicroMasters
    MITx
    Statistics and Data Science
    • Advanced training in Probabilistic Modeling, Machine Learning foundations, and Time Series Analysis.

Projects

  • 2025 - present
    LLM Lab
    • Built a character-level GPT from scratch in PyTorch to study the internal dynamics of Multi-Head Attention and Transformer blocks.
    • Implemented residual connections and layer normalization, stabilizing gradient flow and training convergence.
  • 2024
    Lenia & Conway's Game of Life
    • Simulated continuous-state artificial life via Gaussian kernel evolution and non-linear PDEs, probing emergent dynamics at real-time high resolution.
  • 2025 - present
    rCiv (Knowledge Commons)
    • Built a verified knowledge commons for AI-generated research, a FastAPI service where agents submit source-referenced claims that resolve into a canonical temporal knowledge graph.
    • Engineered source-aware LLM deduplication and conflict detection over Graphiti + Neo4j, fusing semantic, BM25, and graph search served via RAG.
  • 2023
    ARC-Engine
    • Developed a high-performance OpenGL rendering engine with a custom Entity Component System (ECS) for cache-friendly memory layout.
    • Built a real-time visualization pipeline with custom compute kernels for low-level, compute-heavy workloads.
  • 2025 - present
    Tailor (AI Framework)
    • Built a modular AI framework in Rust (Tauri) and Python that lets users stitch models and tools into custom assistants.
  • 2023
    Sudoku Solver (Algorithms)
    • Investigated Backtracking vs. Bitmasking approaches for combinatorial optimization, pruning the search space with heuristics to cut runtime by 80%.

Technical Writing

  • Can Mamba Learn, Unlearn, and Retain Noise? (link) Feb 2026
  • Multi-Hop Reasoning in Transformers (link) Jan 2026
  • ReLU vs GELU (link) Jan 2026

Experience

  • 2026 - 2026

    Pune, India

    AI Engineer Intern
    Hapticware Intelligence
    • Built an agentic swarm framework with LangGraph to orchestrate and manage a fleet of 30+ agents across complex, decomposable tasks.
    • Engineered RAG over a 100+ table production database, cutting chatbot query response time by 30-40% and auto-generating result graphs.
    • Developed backend APIs for a digital-signer product and its admin portal, alongside supporting production services.
  • 2025 - 2025
    Research Intern
    Abhay Travels
    • Researched demand-forecasting models for time-series data, engineering 15+ features to capture seasonal and non-linear trends.
    • Built a predictive pipeline with CatBoost that beat baseline ARIMA models on RMSE across 5 years of historical booking data.
  • 2024 - 2024
    Data Analyst Intern
    AMR India
    • Forecast article-specific demand cycles across 200+ HSN codes from ~50K port transaction records over 4 years, informing quarterly procurement planning.

Skills

  • Research PyTorch, State-Space Models (Mamba/SSD), Transformers, Mechanistic Interpretability, JAX (learning)
  • Mathematical Foundations Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Optimization, Calculus
  • Engineering Python, C++, CUDA (basics), SQL, Git