Arnav Dhar

AI Engineer & Researcher · Durham, NC

Math + CS at Duke. I research and build applied machine learning for health.

I'm building Anchor, a startup bringing AI and custom software to high-end fashion brands, now a $6K/mo client engagement; developing VaultLab, a multi-agent AI research companion for Claude Code; and working as a software engineering intern at PROTECT3D.

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Education

  • Duke University

    Aug 2025 – Present

    B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science

    HackDuke 1st Place · Duke Applied ML Senior Engineer · Startup Showcase Top 10

  • Northwood High School

    2021 – 2025

    Cum Laude · Irvine, CA · GPA 3.97 · SAT 1560

    National Merit Finalist · President's Volunteer Service Award (Gold) · ML Club President

Skills

Languages

  • Python · Java · TypeScript · SQL

AI / ML

  • PyTorch
  • scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face
  • RAG & evals

Engineering

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js / React
  • Postgres
  • Docker

Shipped

  • RAG pipelines
  • LLM evals & golden tests
  • Agentic workflows (MCP)
  • Multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph)

Experience & Projects

  1. VaultLab

    • An AI research companion for Claude Code that runs the full literature-to-deliverable research pipeline through coordinated multi-agent workflows.
    • Orchestrates specialized roles (data analysts, literature surveyors, adversarial critics) across a structured knowledge base, with every finding tracked through tiered citation verification and reproducibility receipts.
    • Moves AI-generated research from raw papers to publication-ready figures, reports, and slide decks without sacrificing provenance or rigor.
    • Multi-agent LLMs
    • Claude Code
    • Research automation

  2. AI Consultant

    $6K/mo

    Anchor · Durham, NC

    • Building Anchor, a startup that brings AI and custom software to high-end fashion and fine-jewelry brands.
    • Shipped generative-design tooling that turns gemstone photos into jewelry designs, plus personalized client recommendations.
    • Secured and served a $6K/mo contract with Ruchi New York, a fine-jewelry brand with celebrity clientele; led a team of three.
    • High-end fashion
    • Generative AI
    • Consulting

  3. Software Engineering Intern

    PROTECT3D · Durham, NC

    • Built a multi-stage cascaded XGBoost pipeline predicting custom orthotic design parameters from 3D foot-scan landmarks, at ~3% average error.
    • Replaced manual clinical measurement with automated ML inference; adopted across PROTECT3D's product line.
    • XGBoost
    • MedTech

  4. AI/ML Research Intern

    Mind Computing · San Diego, CA (Remote)

    • Improved clinical terminology translations for the Knowledge Platform, increasing AI model performance by 23%.
    • Built a speech-to-computable-text system for clinical encounters — runner-up in the national AI Tech Sprint among 152 companies.
    • Clinical NLP
    • Speech AI

Research

  • Tim Duong Research Laboratory

    Albert Einstein College of Medicine · AI Researcher · May 2024 – Aug 2025 · Remote

    • Built an ML model predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment progression to Alzheimer's at 88% accuracy; now extending it into an LLM-based neurodegeneration-prediction system as my undergraduate thesis.
    • Co-developed a personalized breast-cancer treatment model (83% accuracy), published in the National Library of Medicine.
    • Wrote the lab's standard operating procedure for cloud VM access, now used by 150+ researchers.
    • LLMs
    • Predictive Modeling
    • Published

  • Cognitive Synergy Corporation

    U.S. Patent

    AI & ML Research Intern · Aug 2023 – May 2024 · San Diego, CA

  • RespRisk

    Published

    Independent Study · Nov 2024

Hobbies

Outside of work I'm usually on a tennis court, trying new food, or giving Coco belly rubs.

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Reach me directly at arnav.dhar@duke.edu.