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Contact Information
| Name | Dev Nirwal |
| Professional Title | AI/ML Researcher & Engineer |
| devnirwal16@gmail.com |
Professional Summary
AI/ML researcher and software engineer specializing in hypergraph-based learning, LLM pipelines, and scalable AI systems. Published 4 papers at ICPR 2024, CODS-COMAD 2024, and ICMLDE 2025. MSc CS (Rank 2/22) on a fully-funded merit scholarship.
Experience
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2025 - present Pune, India
SDE + Instructor (DSA & Machine Learning)
Newton School
Building AI-powered educational platform and delivering ML/LLM instruction.
- Built and enhanced core learning platform serving 3,000+ students across 3 campuses
- Developed agentic AI-based evaluation pipelines for interviews and OCR projects
- Conducted workshops on Linux From Scratch, Machine Learning, and LLMs
- Mentored 60+ students for GSoC, SIH, and open-source contributions
- Co-founded on-campus Cybersecurity and AI clubs
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2024 - 2025 New Delhi, India
DSA Instructor
Cipher School
- Mentored specialized placement batch of 60+ final-year engineering students from LPU
- Delivered intensive instruction in DSA, MySQL, and System Design
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2024 - 2024 New Delhi, India
Student Admission Volunteer
South Asian University
Assisted 200+ prospective students with university admissions, course details, and onboarding.
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2022 - 2023 New Delhi, India
Sport Committee Head (Elected)
South Asian University
Organized sports fests and inter-university tournaments impacting over 1,000 students.
Education
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2022 - 2024 New Delhi, India
Master of Science
South Asian University (International SAARC University)
Computer Science
- Rank 2 out of 22
- Fully funded merit-based scholarship
- Research: Hypergraph Learning, Semi-Supervised SVMs, Multi-label Classification
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2019 - 2022 New Delhi, India
Bachelor of Science
Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi
Computer Science
- Annual Day 2021 Award recipient
Publications
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2025 Leveraging Hypergraph-Guided Feature Relevance in Multi-Label Learning with Missing Labels
ICMLDE 2025
Hypergraph-guided framework for feature relevance in multi-label learning with missing labels.
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2024 Improved Hypergraph Laplacian Based Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machine
ICPR 2024
Novel semi-supervised SVM using hypergraph Laplacian regularization.
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2024 Hypergraph Regularized Semi-supervised Least Squares Twin Support Vector Machine
ICPR 2024
Hypergraph-regularized semi-supervised least squares twin SVM for multilabel classification.
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2024 HyperGraph Based Imbalance Multi-label Classification with Label Specific Features
CODS-COMAD 2024
Hypergraph approach for imbalanced multi-label classification with label-specific features.
Projects
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Hypergraph-driven Semi-Supervised Learning
Novel hypergraph-based ML algorithms for semi-supervised and multi-label classification. Outperforms traditional graph-based methods on UCI ML Repository, MNIST Fashion, and NLP datasets.
- Developed 2 novel hypergraph-based classification algorithms
- Published at ICPR 2024 and CODS-COMAD 2024
- High-performance retrieval pipelines using FAISS vector storage
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SimpleRAG
RAG-based web application using Django and LangChain for interactive PDF querying via Google Gemini AI with FAISS vector storage and recursive text chunking.
- LangChain + Gemini AI + FAISS vector retrieval
- Recursive chunking for contextually accurate responses
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Paper2Code
Automating code generation from scientific ML papers using LLMs.
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MBR Lab — Bioinformatics Toolbox
Web-based bioinformatics toolbox for protein sequence analysis supporting FASTA and BLAST formats, built with BioPython, Matplotlib, and Django.
- Amino acid classifier and hydropathy plot generation
- FASTA and BLAST format support
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SQL Chess
Play chess and learn SQL simultaneously — an interactive web game combining board mechanics with SQL query challenges.
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Reddit Scraper (LLM Training Data)
Python scraper with rotating proxy support for efficiently collecting Reddit data for LLM training and fine-tuning.
Skills
Languages
Awards
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2022 Merit-Based Master's Scholarship (Fully Funded)
South Asian University
Awarded a fully funded merit-based scholarship for the MSc Computer Science programme.
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2021 Annual Day Award
Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi
Recognized at the college’s Annual Day 2021 for academic excellence.