Dev Sanghvi

AI Engineer (Edge AI & Computer Vision)

I'm an AI engineer currently pursuing an MCS at Rice. Most of my work sits around edge computer vision, OCR, real-time video analytics, and deployment-focused ML under latency, privacy, and real operational constraints.

Across startup, research, and production roles, I keep moving toward work that has to hold up outside the lab and run well in the field.

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Working style

  • I usually think about deployment early.
  • Latency, privacy, and edge constraints stay in view throughout the work.
  • I am comfortable taking research ideas far enough that they become usable systems.

Best-fit roles

AI EngineerEdge AI EngineerComputer Vision EngineerInference / Deployment EngineerApplied AI / Production MLFounding Engineer

Core strengths

Edge AIComputer VisionOCRReal-time Video AnalyticsDeployment OptimizationC++ / Python EngineeringTransformersPrivacy-aware MLStartup ExecutionTechnical Leadership

Now

Rice University

MCS student in Houston with an AI focus, expected to graduate in December 2026 with a current GPA of 3.89/4.0.

Building

Dhi-Tech

Co-founding a privacy-first edge video analytics platform for existing CCTV systems, focused on real-time safety intelligence without cloud dependency.

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Now

Current focus

Building around edge AI, privacy-aware video intelligence, OCR, deployment constraints, and production-ready systems work.

10K+

IoT cameras reached by deployed analytics across large surveillance environments

50-70%

latency reduction achieved on optimized edge inference workloads

2-5x

faster inference delivered while retaining more than 95% of original accuracy

98%+

multilingual detection accuracy reported for the ISRO privacy-preserving email pipeline

40%

training-time reduction in the metasurface publication presented at CASML 2024

400+

members reached as ASPDC grew into the largest programming club on campus

Experience

Work across startups, production AI, and research.

My experience sits across shipping edge AI, building video and OCR systems, and taking research work far enough that it can survive outside the lab.

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Teaching Assistant

Academic

Rice University School of Engineering and Computing

Jan 2026 - PresentHouston, TX

Supporting course delivery while giving students structured feedback and guidance during and outside class.

  • Strengthened constructive feedback and professional communication through direct student support.
Constructive FeedbackProfessional CommunicationTeaching
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Co-Founder

Startup

Dhi-Tech

Nov 2025 - PresentHouston, TX

Building a privacy-first edge video analytics platform for existing CCTV systems and real-time safety intelligence.

  • Focused on no-cloud, low-latency inference for industrial, port, and transit environments using RTSP stream processing and modular AI models.
  • Built around dashboard visualization, safety / hazard detection, Jetson and Raspberry Pi deployment, and early pilot and go-to-market work.
Vision AnalyticsEdge AIStartup LeadershipBusiness Development
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R&D Intern -> AI Solutions Developer

Industry

VMukti Solutions

Jul 2021 - Jan 2025Ahmedabad, India

Worked on scalable cloud VMS systems, edge AI camera software, intelligent video analytics, anomaly detection, and large-scale deployment pipelines.

  • Built production-ready C++ / ONNX inference systems, achieved 50-70% latency reduction, and delivered 60-80% model-size reduction with 2-5x faster inference.
  • Integrated GenAI video-forensics workflows with more than 95% precision and supported analytics across 10K+ IoT cameras with sub-second latency pipelines.
C++ONNXPythonVideo AnalyticsDeploymentEdge AI
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Team Lead

Industry

Adiance Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2025 - Jul 2025Ahmedabad, India

Led work on edge AI CCTV products and deployment pipelines for surveillance environments.

  • Architected and deployed Florence-2 and TimeSformer pipelines for sub-second real-time activity tracking on edge video.
  • Cut authentication latency by 40% via C++ ONNXRuntime face verification and collaborated with stakeholders in 20+ countries on deployment constraints.
Edge AIONNXRuntimeComputer VisionProduct Delivery
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Machine Learning Researcher

Research

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025Ahmedabad, India

Built an offline-capable multilingual email-security pipeline combining OCR, transformer-based analysis, and privacy-preserving processing.

  • Worked on malicious content detection, emotional tone detection, attachment analysis, and multilingual email understanding without cloud upload.
  • Reached 98% accuracy in one reported version and reduced false positives by about 70% versus a rule-based baseline.
OCRBERTRoBERTaPythonText Classification
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Deep Learning Researcher

Research

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Jul 2024 - Aug 2024Mumbai, India

Researched intrusion detection in IoMT networks with deep learning and reinforcement learning.

  • Worked on a 77 GB dataset and improved detection accuracy to 98% in the current resume version.
  • Experimented with Random Forest, CNN, and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks while handling class imbalance and training / inference efficiency.
Reinforcement LearningDeep LearningCybersecurityAlgorithm Optimization
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Research Intern

Research

Adani University

Jul 2023 - Aug 2023Ahmedabad, India

Worked on nanotechnology, metamaterials, camouflage, and design research.

  • This internship became the foundation for the later metasurface publication presented at CASML 2024.
NanotechnologyMetamaterialsDesign Research
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Vice President

Leadership

Adani Student Programming and Development Club

Mar 2023 - Aug 2024Ahmedabad, India

Scaled the largest programming club on campus through mentorship, workshops, hackathons, and repository stewardship.

  • Organized 10+ workshops and hackathons, mentored 250+ students, and helped the club reach 400+ members with demand regularly exceeding capacity.
  • Managed the club GitHub repositories and strengthened the campus coding culture.
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Project library

A broader project library across vision, OCR, privacy, and deployment-focused ML.

This section includes both public repositories and non-public work. Where code is public, it is linked. Where it is not, the work is labeled clearly.

Showing 15 of 15 projects.

Data & PrivacyPublic repo

DP-accurate DAU/MAU Counter Under Deletions

Rice University · Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Deletion-aware distinct counting for privacy-sensitive analytics and compliance-heavy measurement.

  • Designed a deletion-aware pipeline using KMV sketches, tombstone propagation, and RDP accounting for accurate DAU/MAU measurement after deletion events.
  • The work centered on correctness, auditability, and practical GDPR-compliant analytics.
PythonKMV SketchesRDPPrivacy AnalyticsSQLBackend Engineering
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ResearchPublic repo

Editability and Faithfulness Metric for FEVER

Rice University · Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

LLM evaluation work focused on editability-faithfulness tradeoffs on FEVER-style claims.

  • Benchmarked GPT-2 and ROME edits across valid examples, comparing target and control flips to quantify whether edits remained localized and reliable.
  • The evaluation was built to stay measurable, reproducible, and easy to interpret.
GPT-2ROMELLM EvaluationNLPTransformersExperimental Design
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Edge AINo public repo

Activity Identification and Triggering System

Ahmedabad Research Project · Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

Real-time video activity detection and event-triggering platform for surveillance-style streams.

  • Built an end-to-end pipeline with YOLOv11, TimeSformer, FastAPI, React, and WebSockets for live inference, configurable thresholds, and dashboard monitoring.
  • Reached about 95% validation accuracy and was shaped for operational low-latency use cases.
YOLOv11TimeSformerFastAPIReactWebSocketsEdge AI
Edge AIPrivate work

Face Recognition Pipeline

VMukti / Adiance · 2024 - 2025

Face verification pipeline built for practical edge deployment and runtime stability.

  • Worked with RetinaFace detection, ViT embeddings, ONNX / ONNXRuntime inference, CVLFace / AdaFace migration, and FRVT-aligned verification goals.
  • Focused on low FMR / low FNMR targets, C++ deployment constraints, and deployable runtime behavior.
RetinaFaceViT EmbeddingsONNXONNXRuntimeC++Computer Vision
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Live Video Analytics with Florence-2 and SAM

VMukti / Adiance · 2025

Interactive live-stream intelligence with multimodal video understanding components.

  • Implemented real-time pipelines for activity tracking, person tracking, object tracking, and live feed summarization.
  • Built around Florence-2 and SAM-style components in a deployable analytics flow for CCTV and edge environments.
Florence-2SAMVideo AnalyticsTrackingMultimodal AIPython
ResearchPublic repo

Vision Transformer for Accelerated Design of Very Low-frequency Metasurface Absorber

Adani University · Sep 2023 - Sep 2024

Research project combining transformers with materials / physics design optimization.

  • Used Vision Transformer style modeling for image regression on metasurface absorber data and improved design exploration over CNN-like baselines.
  • Reduced training time by about 40% and later presented the work at CASML 2024, IISc Bangalore.
Vision TransformersImage RegressionResearchPythonCNNPublication
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ProductPublic repo

GUI-Based Machine Learning Model for Interactive Learning

Adani University · May 2023 - Aug 2024

Interactive educational ML platform aimed at non-expert users.

  • Focused on GUI development, accessibility, and making machine learning easier to explore in a classroom context.
  • It also reflects usability work and product-minded development for educational software.
Machine LearningGUI DevelopmentEducational TechPythonAccessibility
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ResearchPublic repo

Deep Learning-based IoT Security Model

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · Jul 2024

Intrusion-detection work in an IoMT / IoT security setting.

  • Optimized Random Forest and CNN approaches while also exploring hyperparameter tuning, ensemble ideas, and broader efficiency concerns.
  • Part of the larger IIT Bombay research thread around cybersecurity, anomaly detection, and real-world security data.
CybersecurityIoMTRandom ForestCNNDeep Learning
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Edge AIPublic repo

Text Detector for 16-Segment Displays

VMukti Solutions · Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Industrial OCR project for noisy 16-segment display text extraction.

  • Used OpenCV, EasyOCR, and Flask to support real-time text detection from images and videos.
  • It involved OCR, backend integration, and practical computer vision under messy visual conditions.
OCROpenCVEasyOCRFlaskComputer Vision
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Data & PrivacyPublic repo

OCR-Based Emotion Detection

ISRO · Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

Privacy-aware email understanding project combining OCR with language embeddings.

  • Used EasyOCR and RoBERTa embeddings to classify emotional tone in email content.
  • It also involved privacy-sensitive multimodal processing in a government research setting.
OCRRoBERTaText ClassificationPythonEmail Intelligence
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ResearchNo public repo

Multimodal Song Emotion Classifier

Personal Project · Sep 2024

Multimodal emotion-classification pipeline combining audio and lyric signals.

  • Used Librosa audio features plus SentenceTransformer lyric embeddings with TensorFlow.
  • It combined feature fusion with multimodal emotion prediction.
TensorFlowLibrosaSentenceTransformerMultimodal AIAudio
ProductPublic repo

Alumni Management System

Adani University · 2023

University-focused platform for alumni records, networking, and engagement.

  • Built around backend/system design plus UX thinking for campus-scale software.
  • It also reflects full-stack product delivery outside core AI work.
PythonDjangoPostgreSQLWeb AppUX
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ProductPublic repo

Hospital Management System

Adani University · 2023

Healthcare operations project focused on adoption and usability.

  • Included chatbot-style assistance to improve user interaction with HMIS workflows.
  • The project focused on making day-to-day HMIS workflows easier to use.
ReactNode.jsChatbotHealthcareProduct Thinking
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ProductPublic repo

Stock.Pi

Adani University · 2023

Market sentiment analysis and chatbot system combining scraping and real-time processing.

  • Brought together scraping, sentiment analysis, and market-oriented data processing in one workflow.
  • It also highlights finance-flavored data work, chat-based interfaces, and end-to-end delivery.
Web ScrapingSentiment AnalysisNLPPythonFinance
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ProductPublic repo

Amazon Scrapper

Adani University · 2022

Scraping-oriented backend project that reinforced practical data collection fundamentals.

  • Built a crawler and dashboard flow for Amazon product data collection.
  • It helped build practical scraping and backend fundamentals.
Node.jsPuppeteerWeb ScrapingReactMongoDB
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Publication and awards

Publication, awards, and a few markers of technical recognition.

Research matters most to me when it leads to something concrete. This section collects the paper, competitions, and milestones that shaped that side of my work.

2024CASML 2024, IISc Bangalore

Vision Transformer for Accelerated Design of Very Low-frequency Metasurface Absorber

Applied a Vision Transformer architecture to optimize metasurface absorber design and reduced training time by 40%.

40%
training-time reduction
Vision TransformersResearchMetasurface DesignImage Regression
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Dec 2022IIT Bombay

1st Place, E-Yantra Robotics Workshop

Designed and programmed robotic systems / robotic arms, demonstrating robotics, embedded problem-solving, and teamwork.

Nov 2022IQM Corporations

Winner, AU-IQM Hackathon

Built an AI / ML solution for data classification and placed 1st out of 50+ teams.

Technical stack

Tools, frameworks, and systems I keep reaching for.

Most of my work clusters around vision, OCR, edge inference, deployment, and production-facing ML, so the stack reflects that.

AI, ML, and Modeling

Applied ML work across research, production, and evaluation.

Deep LearningMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceTransformersVision TransformersLarge Language ModelsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Text ClassificationMultimodal AINeural NetworksAnomaly DetectionReinforcement LearningModel EvaluationEnsemble LearningSupervised LearningAlgorithm OptimizationExperimental DesignPrivacy-preserving AnalyticsSentiment AnalysisOptical Character Recognition (OCR)

Vision, OCR, and Video Intelligence

Computer vision systems for surveillance, OCR, and edge deployments.

Computer VisionReal-time Video AnalyticsOCROpenCVTesseractEasyOCRRetinaFaceFace RecognitionFRVT-aligned EvaluationFlorence-2TimeSformerSAMObject TrackingPerson TrackingImage ProcessingVision Analytics

Deployment, Edge, and Infrastructure

Production-oriented systems work for low-latency inference and scale.

Edge AIONNXONNXRuntimeTensorRTQAT / PTQEdge InferenceRTSP Stream ProcessingCloud VMSKubernetesInferencing InfrastructureDockerREST APIsCI-like WorkflowsProduction-minded TestingResource-constrained OptimizationSub-second Latency Pipelines

Languages and Core Engineering

Languages and engineering tools used across AI and product work.

PythonC++CJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLMATLABGoJavaSolidityGitGitHubJupyterNumPyPandasDask

Frameworks and Product Engineering

Tools used for end-to-end product and application delivery.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPIFlaskNode.jsHTMLCSSSASSBack-End Web DevelopmentFront-End DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentWeb ScrapingGUI DevelopmentChatbot DevelopmentPostgreSQLMongoDB

Research and Specialized Areas

Research-heavy areas and adjacent technical background.

BERTRoBERTaPyTorchTensorFlowKerasscikit-learnCNNsIoMT SecurityNanotechnologyMetamaterialsDesign ResearchCybersecurityR&DBlockchainSmart ContractsCryptocurrencyVirtual Reality Development

Education

Academic background that supports the work.

Rice sharpened the systems and ML side of my path, while Adani gave me the early foundation across AI, engineering, and student-led technical work.

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Rice University

Master of Computer Science (AI focus)

Aug 2025 - Expected Dec 2026Houston, TX
  • Current GPA: 3.89/4.0
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Adani University

B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering (AI-ML)

Sep 2021 - Apr 2025Ahmedabad, India
  • CPI: 9.34/10.00
  • SPI: 10.00/10.00 in the 8th semester

Earlier academic background

  • Earlier academic background includes NIOS high school in Physics, Chemistry, and Math.
  • 10th board background: Shreyas Foundation, 96.47 PR / A2 grade.

Professional narrative

An AI and software engineer currently pursuing an MCS at Rice, with deep hands-on experience in edge computer vision, real-time video analytics, OCR and text models, deployment-focused ML, startup execution, and technical leadership, supported by research, product, and systems work across surveillance, cybersecurity, and applied AI.

Contact

The contact section stays simple.

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What I optimize for

  • Building AI that still works once latency, privacy, and deployment constraints become real.
  • Closing the gap between research ideas and production-ready systems people can actually use.
  • Communicating technical work clearly enough for engineers, recruiters, and founders to understand the value quickly.

Interaction style

The interaction layer stays restrained and functional, with motion used mainly to guide focus, clarify transitions, and keep the page readable.