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Gaurav Jadhav

Machine learning systems, and the systems programming beneath them.

About, in short

Portrait of Gaurav Jadhav

Most of what I build sits between two things: a model held to a real latency budget, or a data structure chosen for how it fails rather than how it benchmarks.

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Research

Studies

3 studies

S-01In progressSolo — research and engineering

Kokoro — mood-conditioned cold-start retrieval

Can a mood written in plain words find a show nobody has rated yet?

  • Most popular0.00320.19×
  • Similar viewers (item-kNN)0.00320.19×
  • Matrix factorisation (BPR-MF)0.01470.87×
  • Random order0.0170baseline
  • Text encoder, off the shelf0.05973.51×
  • Kokoro, trained on review text0.08454.97×
Measured · NDCG@10 on 1,491 titles with no ratings · the line marks random order

S-02Systems · C++

Virtual File System

Deterministic Block Allocators for Resource-Constrained File Systems

When does a disk turn a file away while it still has room?

On a 1,024-block disk held at 80% for 3,000 cycles, First-Fit refuses 6.7% of writes while total free space stays near 198 blocks.

Publications

1 book · two papers in preparation
Cover of The Text Book of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Published 2026Co-AuthorSelf-Published

The Text Book of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

With Ms. Gautami Jadhav, Dr. Vivek Deshpande and Dr. Makrand Jadhav.

A comprehensive academic textbook covering the foundational principles and advanced applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, designed for modern engineering curricula.

In preparation

Two papers

Listed here once they are submitted, not before.

InsureTrust

Can a claim be flagged before it reaches a person, without automating the rejection?

The InsureTrust claim submission screen, with drop zones for an insurance document, a car damage photo and a supporting documentThe manual entry form: claimant name, policy ID, claim amount, claim date, hospital name, incident coordinates and a description fieldThe adjuster dashboard, showing claim routing distribution as a donut chart, the most frequently triggered RFI rules, and a table of recent claimsA single claim opened up, showing a risk score gauge, a SHAP analysis of feature contributions, the RFI violations it triggered, and a fraud ring network panel

01 / 05Launch film21 seconds, with sound.

Two signals, one verdict

Claim behaviour and metadataXGBoost score

Document photographsImage forensics

Flagged for human reviewClean on both, or a person decides. Never an automatic rejection.

InsureTrust Backend developer, two-person team

Two independent signals on every claim: a gradient-boosted model scores behaviour and metadata, while image forensics checks the submitted documents for manipulation.

1st Prize, FinTech domain — MIT ADT AI Grand Challenge

Read the write-up on InsureTrust

Decklume

Why do AI-made slides all look the same, and what changes that?

The Decklume card: 'Pick the frame. Ship the deck.' above a film strip of slides in several themes, one circled with the handwritten note 'keep this one'A slide in the Folio theme titled 'Half the night is stage N2', with a donut chart of sleep stages highlighting N2 at 50 percentA slide in the Folio theme titled 'From fast learner to long-term store', showing a four-step flow from Experience to Hippocampus to Sleep replay to NeocortexA dark slide in the Volt theme titled 'Three messages, one round trip', with a TCP handshake diagram of SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK between client and serverA dark slide in the Volt theme titled 'The browser already records every stop', showing JavaScript that reads navigation timing entriesA slide in the Aurora theme titled 'Weekly actives grew every month', with a rising line chart ending at 12,400

01 / 07Launch film21 seconds, with sound.

A system, not adjectives
16:9
fixed canvas
12
column grid
26
tested layouts
13
complete themes
  1. Storyline
  2. you approve
  3. Style from your slides
  4. you choose
  5. Browser QA gate
  6. Deck

Decklume Solo — design and engineering

A plugin that turns a topic, notes or a PowerPoint file into a designed, animated HTML deck, by giving the model a design system instead of adjectives.

Open source under MIT — installable as a Claude Code plugin, with four example decks and thirteen theme demos live on GitHub Pages

Read the write-up on Decklume

Coming soon

Speaking

Talks, workshops, hackathon judging and press features will be listed here, each with its event and date.

Writing

Long-form posts on Medium, cross-posted to Dev.to. Newest first.

Medium profile Dev.to profile

  1. 2026

  2. 2026

About

I am Director of Technology at the Renascent Mirai Foundation, serve on the IEEE Pune Section Student Activities Committee, act as Webmaster for the IEEE Student Branch at MMCOE, and represent India as an IEEE Region 10 ACEI Entrepreneurship Ambassador. At MMCOE I am Student Representative of the International Cell, and Student Advisor to the IT Tech Club after a year as its President.

Away from the keyboard I hold a black belt in Taekwondo and study Japanese.

How I work

  1. Readability over cleverness

    Code is read far more often than it is written. Explicit, modular implementations beat compressed one-liners, because the next person to touch it is usually me six months later.

  2. Optimise on evidence

    Optimisation should follow a measurement, not an intuition. Correctness and clean boundaries first; profile before rewriting anything for speed.

  3. Build for deletion

    All code is a liability. Keeping modules decoupled and local means a component can be removed without unpicking the rest of the system.

  4. Review as design, not gatekeeping

    A pull request review is a collaborative design conversation. I argue for structural integrity and change position as soon as there is a better argument.

  5. Documentation is part of the work

    A feature is not finished while its specification and README are missing. Technical context decays faster than source code does.

Experience

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  • E-Cell, IIT Bombay

    Campus Ambassador

    Jun 2026 – now

  • Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), DRDO

    Research Intern

    Jun 2026 – Oct 2026

  • Renascent Mirai Foundation

    Director of Technology

    Jan 2026 – now

  • International Cell, MMCOE

    Student Representative

    Sep 2026 – now

  • IT Tech Club, MMCOE

    Student Advisor

    Aug 2026 – now

    +1 more

    PresidentAug 2025 – now

  • IEEE Pune Section

    Member Relations Team Member, Student Activities Committee

    Jan 2026 – now

    +1 more

    Student MemberApr 2025 – Jan 2026

  • IEEE Student Branch, MMCOE

    Webmaster and Core Committee Member

    Jan 2026 – now

    +1 more

    Student MemberApr 2025 – Jan 2026

  • IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)

    Student Ambassador, 2026 Cohort

    Aug 2026 – now

  • IEEE Day

    IEEE Day Ambassador 2026

    Aug 2026 – now

    +1 more

    IEEE Day Ambassador 2025Jul 2025 – now

  • IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) ACEI

    Entrepreneurship Ambassador

    May 2026 – now

  • Marathwada Mitra Mandal's College of Engineering, Pune

    Awareness Program

    Sep 2025

  • MMCOE Pune — CGPA 9.55/10

    B.Tech, Information Technology

    2024 — 2028

  • Sir Parshurambhau College

    HSC, Science

    2022 — 2024

Member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society since April 2025.

Coming soon

Said by others

Words from people I have worked with, each with their name, their role and how they know me.

Coming soon

Photos

Photographs from events, talks and the teams behind the work.

Hiring for AI/ML, or reviewing a graduate application?

The fastest way to reach me is email. The résumé is refreshed from its source document on every deploy, so it stays current.

ggauravj05@gmail.comDownload résuméGitHub@GgauravJ05The code behind the projects on this site.39 public repos · 30 followersKaggle@ggauravj05Datasets and notebooks first, then competitions.LinkedInin/ggauravj05Roles, IEEE work and news.Medium@ggauravj5Long-form posts; the first copy of each.2 postsDev.to@ggauravj05Cross-posts of the Medium writing.1 post