Srivatsan Sarvesan

I am a Master's student in Electrical & Computer Engineering (Machine Learning & Data Science) at UC San Diego. I work with Prof. Pengtao Xie on efficient, data-centric autonomous AI systems, developing search and memory architectures that enable agents to reuse knowledge across tasks while reducing time and inference cost. My work also explores multi-agent coordination, self-improving workflows, and test-time scaling.

Previously, I conducted research at the Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras, primarily in medical AI and computer vision. I received my B.Tech (Honours) in Electronics & Communication Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science from NIT Tiruchirappalli, and have also interned at A*STAR SIMTech, Singapore and IISc Bengaluru.

My broader research interests include ML systems, efficient training and inference, post-training and reinforcement learning, as well as multimodal AI for healthcare and precision health.

Srivatsan Sarvesan

News

  • Sep 2025 - Joined UC San Diego for my Master's in Machine Learning & Data Science.
  • Aug 2025 - 1 paper accepted in Scientific Reports.
  • Jul 2024 - Awarded the AP-S Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship & grant, one of only 34 worldwide, to research flexible, ML-driven antenna design on PDMS for sub-6 GHz wearables.
  • Apr 2024 - Awarded the Dr. Ram & Thaila Ramanujam Foundation Research Scholarship for multimodal Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.
  • Mar 2023 - Selected for the Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) by the Indian Academy of Sciences, hosted at IISc Bengaluru.

Publications

Spatial Attention-based Segmentation of Spatter Particle Defects from X-ray Computed Tomography for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Spatial Attention-based Segmentation of Spatter Particle Defects from X-ray Computed Tomography for Metal Additive Manufacturing
International Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (ICT), 2026
C. Dong, S. Sarvesan, A. A. Malcolm, F. Cheng
Dense-PMSFNet: DenseNet Pyramidal Multi-Scale Fusion Network for Retinal Vasculature and FAZ Segmentation in OCTA Images
Dense-PMSFNet: DenseNet Pyramidal Multi-Scale Fusion Network for Retinal Vasculature and FAZ Segmentation in OCTA Images
IEEE Latin America Transactions, 2025
N. P. Raja, S. Sarvesan, A. Thomas, V. P. Gopi

Selected Projects

Attention Kernel Portability Across GPU Architectures
Attention Kernel Portability Across GPU Architectures
Independent research · 6 NVIDIA GPUs, 4 architecture families

A benchmark of forward-prefill and single-token KV-cache attention across six NVIDIA GPUs, asking whether the fastest backend on one device is still the fastest on another. A winner counts only when it clears both a bootstrap confidence interval and a 10% margin; under that bar the backend changed in 27 of 64 separated prefill comparisons across the Ampere, Ada and Hopper parts.

DRISHTI: On-Device Assistive Navigation for the Visually Impaired
DRISHTI: On-Device Assistive Navigation for the Visually Impaired
Hard Hack 2026 · Best Healthcare Hack Winner

A wearable assistive system pairing a Raspberry Pi belt with an Android app that runs Gemma-3n vision-language inference, ArcFace face recognition, and sensor-fusion fall detection on-device, behind a fully voice-driven interface.

CXRGenie: Multimodal Chest X-ray Diagnostic Assistant
CXRGenie: Multimodal Chest X-ray Diagnostic Assistant
B.Tech Thesis · MiRL Lab, IITM

A modular agentic AI for chest X-ray interpretation built on GPT-4o-mini, integrating segmentation, classification, grounding, VQA, and report generation with a RAG-backed vector DB for retrieval-augmented, human-in-the-loop reasoning.

2D-to-3D Coronary Artery Reconstruction & Stenosis Detection
2D-to-3D Coronary Artery Reconstruction & Stenosis Detection
Jun 2024 – May 2025 · MiRL, IITM & Meril Life Sciences

Algorithms for reconstructing 3D coronary geometry from X-ray angiograms, improving stenosis-detection accuracy and cutting computation time via pseudo-transient vFFR.

FusionDecompNet: Multimodal Alzheimer's Diagnosis
FusionDecompNet: Multimodal Alzheimer's Diagnosis
MICAIH Lab, NIT Trichy · Ram-Thaila Scholarship

A multimodal multitask framework for Alzheimer's classification (NC/MCI/AD) via joint MRI–PET fusion with auxiliary modality reconstruction.

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Experience

CIPRA.ai
Data Science / ML Intern, May 2026 – Present

Leading the churn and patient-retention analytics workstream for remote hypertension and diabetes programs, analyzing longitudinal patient histories to derive data-driven at-risk and behavioral-churn thresholds, disengagement taxonomies, and early warning triggers. Translating these patterns into clinical and operational intervention protocols for identifying and re-engaging patients before churn. In parallel, I built a cuffless BP estimation pipeline from raw PPG, using autonomous AutoML agents to optimize few-shot subject-specific calibration from as few as ~10 samples.

Playar
Mobile Computer Vision Intern, Jun 2026 – Present

Building a multi-view computer vision system for cricket analytics using synchronized high-frame-rate iPhone video to reconstruct ball trajectories and estimate how shots played in practice nets would carry and land under different ground settings. My work spans CVAT-based dataset curation, YOLO/CoreML training and benchmarking, single-view ball detection, two-view synchronization and tracking, camera calibration, and 3D trajectory reconstruction.

Prof. Pengtao Xie @ UC San Diego
Graduate Student Researcher, Apr 2026 – Present

Developing efficient search and memory architectures for autonomous data-engineering agents, enabling knowledge reuse across tasks while reducing time and inference/API cost. My research explores cross-task memory, multi-agent coordination, self-evolving workflows, and test-time scaling for data-centric autonomous AI.

MiRL @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Research Assistant, Jun 2024 – Aug 2025

Developed algorithms for 2D-to-3D coronary artery reconstruction from X-ray angiography, improving stenosis-detection accuracy and reducing computation time via pseudo-transient vFFR. Currently building deep learning models for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: video-based CVS classification and hepatocystic anatomy segmentation.

MICAIH Lab @ NIT Trichy
Research Assistant, Aug 2023 – May 2025

Built a DenseNet-based multi-scale pyramidal fusion network for retinal vasculature and FAZ segmentation in OCTA images to aid diabetic-retinopathy diagnosis. Developed a multimodal, multitask framework for Alzheimer's classification (NC, MCI, AD) integrating MRI and PET data.

Motorola Lab @ NIT Trichy
Research Intern, Sep 2024 – Dec 2024

Designed a flexible hexagonal patch antenna on PDMS for sub-6 GHz 5G wearables, achieving 3.2 dB peak gain with a validated low-cost fabrication process. Compared Random Forest, XGBoost, CatBoost, and LightGBM to optimize antenna parameters from full-wave EM simulation data.

A*STAR SimTech, Singapore
Research Intern, Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

Developed a spatial-attention segmentation model to detect spatter-particle defects in X-ray Computed Tomography, improving defect-detection accuracy for additive-manufacturing quality control of metal parts.

Movement Control Lab @ IISc Bengaluru
Summer Research Fellow, May 2023 – Jul 2023

Collected and analyzed single-channel sEMG during hand-reaching tasks to extract muscle-activation patterns using signal processing and ICA. Modeled sEMG signals to study motor-unit recruitment dynamics during voluntary contraction.

Education

University of California, San Diego
MS in ECE (Machine Learning & Data Science), Sep 2025 – Mar 2027
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
B.Tech (Hons.) in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Jul 2021 – May 2025

GPA 9.18/10 · Minor in CSE

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.Tech, Final-Year Exchange, Jul 2024 – May 2025

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