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Sarthak
Mahire

AI/ML Engineer/Software Engineer
Boston, MA, USA
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About

A bit about who I am and what I do

Master of Science in AI student with a curious mindset and a strong research background. Semifinalist (top 10 out of 180+ teams) in the $1M Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize for developing an agentic AI framework. Published patent holder and proven innovator with a published paper in NLP and text mining (IEEE ICERCS 2024). I excel at evidence-based decision making and problem solving — highly stress-resilient, team-oriented, and passionate about tackling complex challenges.

Top 10of 180+ teams — $1M Alzheimer's AI Prize
PatentDeepfake Audio Detection — IP India (2025)
IEEEPublished — ICERCS 2024

Experience

Where I've worked and what I've built

Graduate Research Assistant

VOxx Lab — Northeastern University

Sept 2025 — PresentBoston, MA

VOxx Lab pioneers health acoustics, using voice as a non-invasive biomarker for neurological and physiological health. Research integrates acoustic signal processing and AI-driven analysis to uncover vocal biomarkers that precede clinical symptoms.

  • Designed and maintained the VOxx Unified Dataset, harmonizing 500,000+ audio biomarker samples into a secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud platform for real-time ML; built unit/integration tests for reliability.
  • Built and monitored agentic AI pipelines using QWEN3, Kubernetes clusters with NVIDIA A100 GPUs, Docker microservices, Redis queuing, and MLflow for the Doppel Data and DiscoADRD projects.
  • Managed and optimized HPC resource allocation across various concurrent research workloads. Automated job scheduling and resource monitoring.

Fullstack Developer

Appit Software Solutions

August 2023 — September 2023Hyderabad, India

Global AI transformation company serving 15+ industries including Healthcare, Banking, and Retail. Appit specializes in custom software development and AI-driven business automation for enterprises.

  • Built and launched a lead generation platform (Workisy) with Node.js, React, and PostgreSQL, implementing a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with automated testing, deployment, and monitoring using Jenkins, Docker, and AWS services.
  • Conducted a comprehensive UX case study analyzing user behavior across 500+ platform users. Optimized a WordPress event platform by identifying pain points and implementing UI/backend improvements that increased engagement by 40%.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams of 8+ developers to architect technical solutions, participating in code reviews and pair programming sessions.

Projects

15 projects across AI/ML, data engineering, backend, and more

AI/MLFeaturedSept 2025 — Dec 2025

Doppel Data — Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize Semifinalist

  • Advanced to top 10 semifinalists (from 180+ teams) in the $1M Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize with an innovative agentic AI framework.
  • Developed a multi-agent system addressing missingness in medical datasets by identifying digital twins across diverse cohorts, studies, and databases.
  • Engineered agents for missing data detection, digital twin matching, bias mitigation, privacy, temporal context, and real-time critique, ensuring robust and compliant data harmonization.
PythonMulti-Agent SystemsLLMsHIPAAMLflow
AI/MLFeaturedFeb 2026 — Mar 2026

Autonomous Market Gap Identifier (AMGI)

  • Built a multi-agent market research pipeline that mines complaint-heavy signals from YouTube and web articles, transcribes (Whisper fallback), cleans (spaCy), and indexes embeddings in ChromaDB for semantic retrieval.
  • Implemented complaint-density retrieval + per-gap isolated RAG verification (Tavily) and exported strict JSON/CSV outputs: unmet needs, competitors, reasoning, proposed solution, Greenlit/Redlit.
  • Benchmarked local LLMs on the Razorpay Fix My Itch dataset (50,000 datapoints); best run reached 87.5% accuracy (90% precision) with Llama3.3:70b.
PythonCrewAILangChainspaCyChromaDBWhisperOllama
GitHub
BackendFeaturedMar 2025 — May 2025

API Sentinel — Smart API Gateway & Analytics Proxy

  • Built a high-concurrency smart proxy in TypeScript/Express that intercepts, validates, and forwards requests to third-party APIs (OpenAI, Hugging Face, OpenWeatherMap) using asynchronous streams, centralizing auth injection and security policy enforcement.
  • Implemented Redis-backed Leaky Bucket rate limiting resolving quota decisions in under 2ms, and a PostgreSQL analytics engine logging per-request latency, status codes, and payload size with a real-time usage dashboard.
  • Enforced strict TypeScript interfaces as type-safe contracts over external API response schemas, eliminating runtime crashes from upstream JSON format changes.
TypeScriptNode.jsExpressRedisPostgreSQLDocker
Computer VisionFeaturedSept 2024 — Dec 2024

Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph Generation from Monocular Video

  • Developed a research-grade perception pipeline reconstructing semantic 3D environments from a single monocular camera feed, eliminating the need for expensive LiDAR hardware in robotics.
  • Integrated DepthAnywhere-V2 for metric depth estimation and Grounded-SAM for open-vocabulary object detection, achieving zero-shot detection of novel objects through language-aligned point clouds.
  • Engineered dynamic 3D scene graphs with spatial relationship mapping (occlusion, proximity) for robotic path-planning, advancing autonomous navigation in complex environments.
PythonPyTorchDepthAnything-V2Grounded-SAMComputer Vision
AI/MLSept 2025 — Oct 2025

DiscoADRD: Automated Scientific Discovery

  • Developed an automated hypothesis generation and testing framework with a multi-agent pipeline (Hypothesis Generator, Data Preparation, Planner, Scientist, and Critic Agents) to test scientific hypotheses at scale.
  • Integrated QWEN/Qwen2.5-4B-Instruct LLM for agent reasoning with an iterative validation loop between Scientist and Critic Agents.
  • Tested on the NACC dataset — the system validated well-established hypotheses with citations, classified discoveries, and used RAG to ground claims in scientific literature.
PythonQWEN LLMMulti-AgentRAGNACC Dataset
ResearchFeaturedFeb 2024 — May 2024

DeepFake Audio Detection (Patent Filed)

  • Invented a deepfake audio detection system combining Bi-Directional GRU-RNN and WGAN-GP, achieving 94.2% detection accuracy on the ASVspoof2019 benchmark.
  • Achieved 25% reduction in computational complexity compared to Bi-LSTM approaches, enabling real-time audio authentication in telephony security and media forensics.
  • Filed patent with IP India (Application No. 202541122126, Dec 2025).
PythonPyTorchBi-GRUWGAN-GPASVspoof2019
Data EngineeringFeaturedJan 2024 — June 2024

Global Air Quality & Weather Analytics Pipeline

  • Engineered an end-to-end automated data pipeline ingesting real-time weather (OpenWeatherMap) and air quality data (OpenAQ), processing 10,000+ daily records across 50+ global cities.
  • Architected a cloud-native ELT pipeline using Apache Airflow orchestration, AWS S3 data lake, Snowflake data warehouse, and dbt transformations for scalable environmental analytics.
  • Built interactive Power BI dashboards visualizing global pollution trends and weather correlations, enabling data-driven environmental policy insights.
Apache AirflowSnowflakeAWS S3dbtPower BIPython
Computer VisionSept 2024 — Nov 2024

DeepFake Image Detection with CNN and Vision Transformers

  • Architected a novel hybrid deepfake detection model integrating CNN feature extraction with Vision Transformer classification, achieving 91% accuracy on image authenticity verification.
  • Designed an end-to-end pipeline with CNN spatial feature extraction, ViT patch embedding with positional encoding, and multi-head self-attention for complex contextual relationships.
  • Implemented an MLP classification head processing transformer encoder outputs, demonstrating effectiveness of the hybrid CNN-ViT approach.
PythonPyTorchCNNVision Transformer (ViT)MLP
AI/MLJan 2024 — Apr 2024

Movie Planner AI Agent

  • Developed an intelligent AI agent processing natural language invitations to automate movie/event planning, extracting key details (title, time, venue) from informal text messages.
  • Built FastAPI backend with n8n workflow orchestration, integrating OMDb API for metadata enrichment and OpenRouter LLM hosting for contextual response generation.
  • Implemented an end-to-end automation pipeline from message parsing to intelligent reply generation, enabling human-like conversational planning.
FastAPIn8nOpenRouterOMDb APIPython
BackendJune 2024 — Aug 2024

Cryptocurrency Price Alert System

  • Developed a real-time cryptocurrency price monitoring system using Django REST Framework, processing live Binance API data with Redis caching (1-minute TTL) for 100+ digital assets.
  • Implemented secure JWT-based authentication and custom threshold management, enabling users to set personalized price alerts with upper/lower bounds across multiple cryptocurrencies.
  • Engineered an asynchronous Celery task queue triggering instant email notifications when price thresholds are crossed, ensuring sub-minute alert delivery with PostgreSQL persistence.
Django RESTRedisCeleryPostgreSQLBinance APISimpleJWT
Computer VisionFeb 2024 — May 2024

DeepFake Detection with GAN-Augmented Data

  • Implemented advanced deepfake detection using GAN-generated synthetic data for training augmentation, improving classifier generalizability across diverse deepfake generation techniques.
  • Trained an adversarial GAN architecture with a Generator creating synthetic deepfakes from noise and a Discriminator learning on the Flickr-Faces-HQ dataset.
  • Enhanced the DF-40 dataset with GAN-generated samples for CNN training, achieving improved classification performance through increased dataset variety.
PythonTensorFlowGANsCNNScikit-learn
Data EngineeringSept 2023 — Dec 2023

Walmart Sales Analysis and Prediction

  • Analyzed historical Walmart sales data to forecast weekly revenue patterns, implementing an ensemble ML approach combining Linear Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and XGBoost.
  • Conducted comprehensive EDA revealing sales trends across stores, seasonal patterns, and holiday impacts, optimizing feature engineering for improved demand prediction accuracy.
  • Evaluated models using R², MSE, and RMSE metrics to enhance inventory management and supply chain optimization.
PythonXGBoostScikit-learnPandasSeaborn
Data EngineeringMar 2023 — June 2023

Electricity Production Forecasting

  • Developed a time-series forecasting model predicting monthly electricity production for a 5-year horizon using 33 years of historical data (1985–2018) with advanced statistical methods.
  • Applied Augmented Dickey-Fuller stationarity testing and log transformation to prepare non-stationary data, implementing SARIMAX model optimized for seasonal electricity patterns.
  • Generated accurate 60-month production forecasts outperforming ARIMA baseline, providing energy sector stakeholders with reliable capacity planning insights.
PythonStatsmodelsSARIMAXPandasMatplotlib
AI/MLJan 2023 — Mar 2023

Predicting Sales from Advertising Data

  • Built a predictive sales model analyzing advertising expenditure impact across TV, Radio, and Newspaper channels, identifying TV advertising as the strongest sales driver through correlation analysis.
  • Performed comprehensive EDA using Plotly interactive visualizations and statistical heatmaps, revealing key advertising-sales relationships for marketing budget optimization.
  • Implemented a linear regression model achieving robust performance metrics (R², MSE, MAE), providing actionable insights for advertising spend optimization.
PythonScikit-learnPlotlyPandasJupyter
EmbeddedFeb 2022 — May 2022

Ultrasonic Distance Measurement System

  • Designed an embedded distance measurement system using 8051 microcontroller and HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, programming real-time distance calculations in C with sub-centimeter accuracy.
  • Implemented a complete firmware solution with USB AVR + AT89Sxx ISP programmer for microcontroller flashing, integrating sensor control and echo time processing algorithms.
  • Developed a real-time display interface with a 16x2 LCD screen showing live distance measurements.
C8051 MCUHC-SR04LCDEmbedded Systems

Skills

Technologies and tools I work with

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC++SQLBash / Shell

ML & AI

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnTransformersLLMs / RAGCNNsComputer VisionNLPLSTM / GRUPrompt EngineeringMulti-Agent Systems

Backend Development

FastAPIDjango RESTNode.js / ExpressREST APIsRedisPostgreSQLCeleryDistributed Systems

Data Engineering

Apache AirflowSnowflakeETL / ELT PipelinesdbtPandasNumPyData CleaningLarge-scale Datasets

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (S3, EC2)DockerKubernetesCI/CDMLflowHIPAA ComplianceHPC / GPU Clusters

Dev Tools

GitLinuxAgile / ScrumTechnical DocumentationCross-functional Collaboration

Education

Academic background

Master of Science

Artificial Intelligence

Northeastern University

Boston, MA, USA

Class of 2027GPA 3.75 / 4.0

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

Vellore, India

Class of 2025GPA 3.7 / 4.0

Research

Publications and patents

publication

A Comprehensive Study on Advancements in Text Mining and Natural Language Processing

2024 International Conference on Emerging Research in Computational Science (ICERCS) — IEEE

2024

  • Provided a comprehensive review of the evolution of text mining and NLP, from early rule-based and statistical methods to modern deep learning and transformer models, highlighting key advancements and techniques.
  • Discussed real-world applications, major challenges (data bias, interpretability), and future directions for fair, explainable, and sustainable NLP systems across healthcare, finance, social media, and law.
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patent

Deepfake Audio Detection Using Bi-Directional GRU and WGAN-GP

IP India — Indian Patent Office

December 4, 2025

App. 202541122126
  • Invented a deepfake audio detection system combining Bi-Directional GRU-RNN and WGAN-GP, achieving 94.2% detection accuracy on the ASVspoof2019 benchmark and 25% reduction in computational complexity vs. Bi-LSTM.
  • Enabled real-time audio authentication with deployment-ready performance for telephony security, media authentication, and forensic analysis.
  • Evaluated using Accuracy, F1 score, ROC-AUC, Equal Error Rate (EER), and t-DCF.