Nitish Nagesh

University of California, Irvine (Sep 2021 – Jun 2026)

Ph.D., Computer Science – GPA: 3.9

University of California, Irvine (Sep 2021 – Jun 2023)

M.S., Computer Science – GPA: 3.83

Technical University of Munich (Oct 2018 – Dec 2020)

M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering – GPA: 3.61

R.V. College of Engineering (Jul 2012 – Aug 2016)

B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering – GPA: 3.74

Graduate Research Scientist – UC Irvine IFH, Irvine, CA (June 2022 – Present)

• Built a causally fair, LLM-augmented synthetic data generation pipeline (first-author paper in progress).
• Co-developed a diet recommendation chatbot using health data (Elsevier Smart Health 2024).
• Integrated nutrition models into explainable diet agents (IEEE Medicine & Biology 2024).
• Led causal analysis on N-of-1 data studying caffeine's impact on HRV (first-author paper).

Research Data Scientist Intern – ResMed, San Diego, CA (June 2024 – Sept 2024)

• Built a LangChain-based topic modeling system for 6,000+ sleep apnea patients.
• Co-led validation of clinical claims for therapy personalization (ATS 2025 abstract).

Data Scientist Intern – iHealth Labs, Sunnyvale, CA (June 2023 – Sept 2023)

• Led HIPAA-compliant data aggregation and analysis for 12,000 RPM patients.
• Developed personalized interventions for diabetes and hypertension (AHA 2024).

Applied ML Intern – UC Irvine IFH, Irvine, CA (Sept 2021 – May 2022)

• Built DL pipeline for retina segmentation (31% optic disk accuracy).
• Classified Fashion-MNIST using CNNs (93% test accuracy with tuning).

Software Engineer – Qualcomm, Austin, TX (Mar 2021 – Aug 2021)

• Developed a Python tool for parsing 5,000 accelerator logs (3× speedup).
• Improved ML SDK performance by 10% via debugging and feature tuning.

Teaching Assistant – UC Irvine, Irvine, CA (Sept 2021 – Present)

• Led discussions, office hours, and online forums across 4+ CS courses, reaching 600+ students.
• Received >90% ratings on engagement, accessibility, and communication.

Visiting Researcher – UC San Diego, San Diego, CA (Sept 2019 – Feb 2021)

• Developed reliability-aware task allocation strategies for IoT systems (Python).
• Built a real-world IoT mesh network with MQTT/Wi-Fi communication.
• Achieved 90% accuracy validating a reliability simulation framework (Python/C++).

DECADE, UC Irvine (Sep 2021 – Present, Irvine, CA)

CS Dept. Representative

• Collaborated with faculty/students to improve retention of minorities in grad programs
• Organized panel on "How to Excel in your Summer Internship" with speakers from Google, Amazon, etc.
• Led panel on LLMs, reproducibility, and computing’s societal impact with 50+ attendees

Artificial Intelligence Club, UC Irvine (Sep 2021 – Present, Irvine, CA)

Lead Mentor

• Initiated "How to Apply to Grad School" series for 75+ students (5+ admits to CMU, UC Berkeley, etc.)
• Ran 10-week coding prep program for ML/software internships (15 students)
• Hosted sessions on research opportunities → helped 5+ students secure UROP & lab roles

University of California, Irvine

• Beall Family Entrepreneur Award in Computer Science ($5,000)
• Professional Development Award ($500) for DEI efforts
• Incoming Student Fellowship ($2,500 – 1 of 350)
• Entrepreneurship Coaching Grant ($5,000 – 2/year)
• Grad Slam 3-minute Research Pitch Semi-Finalist (1 of 50, 3 consecutive years)

Technical University of Munich

• International Student Scholarship ($2,500 – 1 of 200)
• Master’s Thesis Scholarship ($2,000 – 1 of 50)
• Young Academy Scholar Cohort (1 of 40)

R.V. College of Engineering

• Best Outgoing Student (1st in 70) for all-round excellence
• Academic Excellence Award (2nd in 70)
• Most Innovative Thesis Award (2nd in 70)