Prateek Gautam
Software Engineer & Technology Enthusiast
Passionate engineer with expertise in, machine learning, data science, full-stack development, and innovative building. I love creating impactful products that solve real-world problems.
My Journey
A comprehensive timeline of my education, work experience, and personal projects
AI Powered Knowledge Graph using Vector Databases
Personal Project
Personal Project • May 2025 - Jul 2024
Debiasing Diffusion Based LLMs
Academic Project
Academic Project • Mar 2025 - May 2025
How Synthetic Images Boost Real Classifiers
Academic Project
Academic Project • Mar 2025 - May 2025
Generative AI Engineer
Wayfair
Wayfair • Feb 2025 - May 2025
Graduate Researcher
MIT Operations Research Center
MIT Operations Research Center • Feb 2025 - May 2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Humane World for Animals
Humane World for Animals • Feb 2025 - Aug 2025
Machine Learning for Substance Abuse Treatment
Academic Project
Academic Project • Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Optimizating Allocation of Sports Bets
Academic Project
Academic Project • Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Real-Time Sports Odds Data Pipeline
Academic Project
Academic Project • Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Data Scientist
MIT Sloan / GeoComply
MIT Sloan / GeoComply • Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Master of Business Analytics
MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management • Aug 2024 - Present
Growth Equity Intern
Radian Capital
Radian Capital • Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
AI/ML Engineer Intern
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
AI/Data Science Intern
Mastercard
Mastercard • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Bachelor of Arts in Statistics
Cornell University
Cornell University • Aug 2021 - May 2024
Economic Research Intern
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
A Machine Learning Approach to Identify Socio-Economic Factors Responsible for Patients Dropping out of Substance Abuse Treatment
Personal Project
Personal Project • Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Work Experience
My professional journey building innovative software solutions
Generative AI Engineer
Designed an AI-powered web agent to autonomously detect duplicate product listings and generate behavioral personas based on user browsing patterns. Built a React/Next.js dashboard to monitor agent outputs and replace traditional customer surveys with AI-generated insights.
Graduate Researcher
Built a full-stack web application for organ-procurement organizations that delivers real-time organ acceptance predictions using XGBoost models served via Next.js API routes and displayed in a React dashboard.
Growth Equity Intern
Conducted research on AI, decentralized identity, and SaaS to develop industry reports and tools. Built Python-based automation, including OCR for financial PDFs and a sentiment analysis pipeline for tracking market trends via news and social media.
AI/ML Engineer Intern
Built a Tableau dashboard to track purchase order approvals and developed Python-based models for data imputation and NLP-driven automation of military procurement. Also explored OCR techniques to extract structured data from PDFs and images.
AI/Data Science Intern
Built and optimized a Vector Autoregression model to forecast server data ingestion, reducing internal costs in collaboration with the AIOps team. Gained experience with time-series models and developed live dashboards using Splunk and Matplotlib.
Economic Research Intern
Maintained the Federal Reserve’s public-facing website to ensure timely and accurate updates of key resources. Analyzed regional economic reports to assess the impact of local trends on national policy decisions.
Featured Projects
Innovative solutions I've built to solve real-world problems
Debiasing Diffusion Based LLMs
Academic Project
Fine-tuned a LLaDA-8B-Instruct model using a LoRA adapter within a REINFORCE-based RL framework to reduce gender bias an...
AI Powered Knowledge Graph using Vector Databases
Personal Project
Developed an AI-powered knowledge graph that transforms personal notes into an interconnected web of insights. Mosaic us...
Education
Academic journey and foundational knowledge
Master of Business Analytics
Candidate for Master of Business Analytics with ORC (Operations Research Center)
Key Coursework & Skills
Academic Highlights
Graduate School Performance
Bachelor of Arts in Statistics
Bachelor of Arts in Statistics with Minors in Computer Science and Mathematics
Key Coursework & Skills
Leadership & Activities
Cornell Consulting Club
Quant Fund
Delta Sigma Pi Professional Fraternity
Graduate Level Probability Theory
Academic Highlights
Undergraduate Achievements
Interests & Skills
Beyond coding, I'm passionate about sports, being outdoors, and finding new hobbies
Personal Interests
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Data Science & ML
Web Technologies
Databases
Tools & Frameworks
Other Skills
Fun Fact
When I'm not coding, you can find me watching a Liverpool FC game, reading "The Silent Patient", or watching Modern Family!