Hello, I am Ruman

I'm currently studying Computational Bioengineering at Imperial College London.

Engineer
Researcher
Writer
Ruman in shirt and glasses

Experience


AI Engineer, IBM

Client Engineering · Bangalore, India

Oct 2023 - Present


  • Client-Focused POC Development: Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with 75-85% average retrieval accuracy.
  • Fine-tuned LLMs using synthetic data, improving response alignment by 25-35% based on expert evaluation.
  • Engineered MLOps pipelines with 90% drift detection accuracy and automated retraining.
  • Applied AI Research: Optimized POC deployment time via RAG variants, agentic systems, and fine-tuning with synthetic data.
  • Developed benchmarking metrics for LLM evaluation across sectors.
  • Technical Stack: Python, PyTorch, WatsonX, MLOps best practices.

Software Engineer, Oracle Health (formerly Cerner)

Population Health Analytics · Bangalore, India

Jun 2021 - Aug 2023


  • Healthcare Data Analysis: Developed and tested pipelines to evaluate patient records for provider scoring systems.
  • Performance Optimization: Reduced pipeline runtime by 90%, shrinking report turnaround from multiple days to under one.
  • ETL & Automation: Used Apache Airflow and Spark to automate client workflows and speed up reporting.
  • Software Development: Delivered production-ready systems using Python, Oracle SQL, Java, Git, and Jira.

Research Experience


Impact Scholar, NeuroMatch Academy

Impact Scholar Program - Virtual, Global

September 2024 - April 2025


  • NeuroAI Research: Investigating the role of architectural priors in biological and artificial agents for task performance.
  • Comparative Analysis: Modeled C. elegans (swimming) and rat (running) neural architectures, comparing them with MLPs to analyze deviations from parameter scaling laws.
  • Imitation Learning & RL: Applied teacher-student distillation and reinforcement learning techniques to establish empirical scaling curves.
  • Findings: Demonstrated that standard MLP scaling does not align with biologically evolved architectures, reinforcing the importance of structure in intelligence.

Education


Imperial College London, London, U.K.

Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering

2025 - Present


  • Specialisation in Computational Bioengineering.
  • Planned focus on AI-driven simulation of biological systems and neuro-inspired computing.

NHCE, Bangalore

B.E. in Computer Science

2017 - 2021


  • Graduated with distinction (top 10%).
  • Focused on AI, systems programming, and interdisciplinary research.
  • Led multiple academic and hackathon projects.

Computational Engineering

Bridging AI, neuroscience, and biology through code — building for real-world health impact.

AI for Science

Leveraging machine learning to accelerate discovery in health and life sciences.

Systems Thinker

Understanding the big picture — across biology, tech, and society — to guide meaningful design.

Projects

Prediction of Future Continuous Motion States from ECoG Recordings

NeuroMatch Academy — July 2023

sciKit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, Research

  • Built a data pipeline to analyze ECoG data for correlations between neural signals and cursor movement.
  • Achieved a max R-square of 49.3%, with processing latency reduced to 5 milliseconds using techniques like frequency filtering and PCA.
  • Identified correlations between Brodmann areas and neural signals, enabling faster processing by targeting specific brain regions.

Adversarial Tweet Sentiment Analysis

NeuroMatch Academy — June 2022

PyTorch, HuggingFace, Transformers

  • Performed sentiment analysis using SBERT from HuggingFace, reducing high-dimensional data to 3D space with PCA.
  • Trained a logistic regression model, validating data compression without loss in prediction accuracy.
  • Highlighted classification challenges with slang and Twitter-specific words, identifying model limitations.

Autonomous Ice Hockey Agent

UT Austin (Virtual) — May 2023

Python, PyTorch

  • Developed an autonomous agent to play ice hockey using image-based and state-based approaches.
  • Achieved 85% accuracy in ball tracking and over 80% game success through policy optimization with the REINFORCE algorithm.
  • Built a data pipeline for training and assembling datasets to optimize the agent's goal-scoring strategy.

Analyzing Dataset Artifacts using ELECTRA

UT Austin (Virtual) — June 2023

PyTorch, HuggingFace, Transformers

  • Developed an NLI model using ELECTRA, achieving 88.24% accuracy and improving predictions by correcting dataset artifacts.
  • Designed an error analysis framework, categorizing issues to enhance semantic processing and model robustness.
  • Conducted experimental fine-tuning on diverse datasets, improving model generalizability.

Publications

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Skills

I've developed a diverse set of skills through my work and research. Here are a few that define what I do.

  • Machine Learning

  • Data Engineering

  • Research

  • Scientific Writing

  • Systems Thinking

  • Full-Stack Engineering