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Contact Information

Name Dev Nirwal
Professional Title AI/ML Researcher & Engineer
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024 - 2024

    New Delhi, India

    Student Admission Volunteer
    South Asian University
    Assisted 200+ prospective students with university admissions, course details, and onboarding.
  • 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

  • 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
  • 2019 - 2022

    New Delhi, India

    Bachelor of Science
    Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi
    Computer Science
    • Annual Day 2021 Award recipient

Publications

Projects

  • 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
  • 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
  • Paper2Code

    Automating code generation from scientific ML papers using LLMs.

  • 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
  • SQL Chess

    Play chess and learn SQL simultaneously — an interactive web game combining board mechanics with SQL query challenges.

  • Reddit Scraper (LLM Training Data)

    Python scraper with rotating proxy support for efficiently collecting Reddit data for LLM training and fine-tuning.

Skills

ML & Research (Expert): Scikit-learn, PyTorch, NLTK, Hypergraph Learning, SVMs, Multi-label Classification, Semi-Supervised Learning, FAISS
AI & LLM Engineering (Advanced): LangChain, RAG, Gemini AI, FAISS, Vector Databases, Agentic AI Pipelines, Ollama, OpenWebUI
Programming Languages (Advanced): Python, C++, Java, SQL, MATLAB, PHP, Go
Tools & Infrastructure (Advanced): Git, Docker, Kubernetes, LaTeX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Django, Flask

Languages

English : Professional working proficiency
Hindi : Native speaker

Awards

  • 2022
    Merit-Based Master's Scholarship (Fully Funded)
    South Asian University

    Awarded a fully funded merit-based scholarship for the MSc Computer Science programme.

  • 2021
    Annual Day Award
    Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi

    Recognized at the college’s Annual Day 2021 for academic excellence.