Om Namo Venkateshaya!

Srikar
Prabhas
Kandagatla

ML Engineer & Researcher  ·  NLP  ·  Computer Vision  ·  Multimodal AI

Building intelligent systems at the intersection of language, vision, and audio. Currently a Graduate Research Extern at Dolby Laboratories and MS student at UMass Amherst (GPA: 3.95/4.0). Passionate about multimodal recommendation, RAG pipelines, and production-grade ML deployment.

3.95/4.0
MS GPA · UMass
2+
Publications
4+
ML Projects
🥇
Gold Medal · IFHE
Currently At
Dolby Laboratories
Graduate Research Extern
9.21
B.Tech GPA
#1
Batch Rank
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About

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher pursuing my MS in Computer Science at UMass Amherst (GPA: 3.95/4.0). My work sits at the intersection of multimodal AI, natural language processing, and scalable ML systems.

Currently, I'm a Graduate Research Extern at Dolby Laboratories, where I engineer multimodal sequential recommendation systems that fuse audio embeddings with behavioral signals — pushing the boundaries of how AI understands music at scale.

Before that, I contributed to the BioNLP Lab at UMass, fine-tuning large language models on biomedical corpora and building RAG pipelines that cut hallucination rates by 30%. I also interned at IIT Mandi, applying statistical analysis to COVID-19 mobility data to inform public health policy.

I hold a Gold Medal (First Rank) from IcfaiTech, IFHE. I build things that work in production: deployed on AWS, containerized with Docker, monitored in Grafana.

Currently

Graduate Research Extern at Dolby Laboratories · Multimodal recommendation with PyTorch

Location

Amherst, MA, USA

Interests

Multimodal AI · LLMs · Computer Vision · Recommendation Systems · MLOps · Real-time Inference

Open To

Summer 2026 Internships · Full-time ML/Research roles starting December 2026

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Experience

Jan 2026 – Present
Dolby Laboratories
Remote · Research
Graduate Research Extern
  • Engineered a multimodal sequential recommendation system in PyTorch by modifying E4SRec to fuse ID sequences with 5+ music metadata categories, improving NDCG, MRR, and Hit@K by 15%+ over baseline.
  • Built an end-to-end pipeline using Hugging Face Transformers + YouTube Data API to generate 768-D audio embeddings across 10,000+ tracks representing 500+ hours of audio.
  • Tracked all experiments via Weights & Biases; presented findings to team leads in Agile sprints.
PyTorchHugging FaceE4SRecRecommendation SystemsW&BAudio ML
Jun 2025 – Jan 2026
BioNLP Lab · UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA
Graduate Student Researcher
  • Fine-tuned PubMedBERT on 20,000+ biomedical QA pairs, achieving 80%+ F1 and 10–15% gain over baseline via BLEU/ROUGE.
  • Developed a RAG pipeline reducing hallucination by 30% and improving citation precision.
PubMedBERTRAGLangChainFAISSNLPBioMedical AI
May 2022 – Nov 2022
IIT Mandi
India · Research Intern
Research Intern
  • Built a Python + Pandas pipeline processing COVID-19 mobility data across 20 Indian states, applying One-Way ANOVA and Tukey HSD to surface lockdown-phase recovery disparities.
  • Contributed to public health research informing state-level pandemic response policy.
PythonPandasANOVAStatistical AnalysisPublic Health
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Projects

Multimodal RAG Agent: Vision With Language Retrieval

RAG agent using LangChain + FAISS + CLIP for image/text queries — 40% higher retrieval relevance over text-only baseline across 50K docs. AWS EC2 + Docker + Redis: 60% latency reduction.

LangChainFAISSCLIPAWS EC2RedisPostgreSQL
Autonomous Driving: Real-Time Object Detection & Segmentation

YOLOv9c on BDD100K — 87.3% mAP@50. SAM integration at <28ms P95 on A100. ONNX FP16 + Kubernetes HPA on AWS: 45% cost reduction. Grafana monitoring.

YOLOv9SAMONNXKubernetesGrafana
StockNet: 2-Tier Distributed Stock Trading System

Distributed 2-tier system with Flask + Docker on isolated AWS EC2 servers. Caching, replication (3 Order Service replicas), fault tolerance under concurrent REST API load.

FlaskDockerAWS EC2Distributed Systems
Task Scheduler & Reminder WhatsApp Bot

Node.js + Express.js WhatsApp bot via Twilio API and node-cron. Automates weekly/bi-weekly reminders with user state tracking via JSON persistence.

Node.jsExpress.jsTwilionode-cron
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Skills

Languages
PythonRJavaScriptTypeScriptSQL
ML & Deep Learning
PyTorchHugging FaceScikit-learnCNNsTransformersYOLO/DETRTransfer Learning
NLP & Retrieval
RAGLangChainFAISSLLMsCLIPBLEU/ROUGE
Data & Storage
PandasNumPyPostgreSQLRedisMatplotlibPlotly
Cloud & DevOps
AWS EC2/S3/SageMakerGCPAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGrafana
Frameworks
FlaskFastAPIReactJSNodeJSSpring BootGitONNX
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Publications

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026Impact Factor: 4.7
Hybrid Deep Feature Integration Model for Robust Deepfake Detection Using Transfer-Learned Neural Networks
Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla et al. · 2026
Deepfake DetectionTransfer LearningCNNsComputer Vision
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Elsevier Systems & Soft Computing · 2025Impact Factor: 3.6
A Deep Learning Framework for Brain Tumor Detection Using CNNs and Transfer Learning on MRI Scans
Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla (First Author) · 2025
Brain Tumor DetectionCNNsMRI AnalysisMedical AI
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The IUP Journal of Computer Sciences · 2025Impact Factor: 3
Transfer Learning Approaches for Multiclass Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI Dataset
Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla (First Author) · 2025
Brain Tumor DetectionMRI ScansMedical AI
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IEEE - 10th International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP) · 2024
A Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla et al. · 2024
Alzheimer's DiseaseCNNsDeep LearningMedical AI
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Education

Current
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2025 – Dec 2026
GPA: 3.95 / 4.0
Machine Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning · Data Science · Statistics
🥇 Gold Medal
B.Tech in Computer Science
IcfaiTech, IFHE · India
Aug 2020 – Aug 2024
GPA: 9.21 / 10 · First Rank
Data Structures & Algorithms · Operating Systems · Big Data Systems · Network Security
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Achievements

🥇

Shri N. J. Yasaswy Best Student Gold Medal

First Rank at IcfaiTech, IFHE — four years of academic excellence across the entire CS batch.

📄

2 Peer-Reviewed Publications

Published in Frontiers in AI (IF: 4.7) and Elsevier Systems & Soft Computing (IF: 3.6), including a first-author paper on medical AI.

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Industry Research at Dolby Laboratories

Selected as Graduate Research Extern — contributing to production-grade multimodal AI at one of audio technology's most prestigious companies.

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Community Leadership · Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

Organized tree plantation drives and empowered individuals with disabilities across Kurnool, AP. Developed the organization's website.

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Contact

Let's build something meaningful together.

Actively looking for Summer 2026 internships and full-time ML/Research roles starting December 2026. Whether it's research collaboration, a product opportunity, or just a good conversation about AI — I'd love to connect.