Ayush Deva

ML engineer at Google. Curious about cities, the human brain, and what they might have in common.

Experience

Google Jun 2025 – Present
Machine Learning Engineer · Bengaluru

Working on making homes conversational.

Wadhwani AI Aug 2023 – Jun 2025
Associate ML Scientist II · Bengaluru

Built Vacchan Samikhsa — a speech recognition tool to assess reading fluency in Gujarat government schools. Ran 3.5M+ assessments for 2.5M students. Used LLMs to generate personalised stories for remediation.

Quriate Oct 2021 – Jul 2023
Founder · Bengaluru

Built an assessment platform that let teachers create tests from question screenshots in minutes. Adopted by 10+ institutes and 10k+ students.

Wadhwani AI Jul 2020 – Oct 2021
Associate ML Scientist I · Mumbai

Built COVID-19 forecasting models for Mumbai and Jharkhand to help local governments plan hospital capacity. Published in ICLR and PNAS.

Goldman Sachs May 2018 – Jul 2018
Summer Analyst, Global Investment Research · Bengaluru

Education

MIT, Cambridge Sep 2018 – Apr 2019
Research Fellow · Operations Research

Optimizing blood sample transportation in Malawi. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

IIIT Hyderabad 2015 – 2020
B.Tech. in Computer Science (Hons.)

Publications

Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States

PNAS · 2022

Interpretability of Epidemiological Models: The Curse of Non-Identifiability

ICLR · 2021

A Multi-Arm Bandit Approach To Subset Selection Under Constraints

AAMAS · 2021

Automated Categorization of Systemic Disease and Duration From Electronic Medical Record System Data

JMIR Medical Informatics · 2020

Writing

Accelerating Our Alignment Module: From Python to C++
Teaching Llama to teach a child how to get better at reading
Using AI to improve Reading Fluency — An Introduction

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