Prudhviraj Naidu
PhD Student in Computer Science
Email: prnaidu@ucsd.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prudhvirajn
GitHub: github.com/prudhvirajn
Website: prudhvirajn.github.io
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science (Expected: December 2027)
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
GPA: 3.97/4.0
Masters of Science, Computer Science (March 2024)
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Honors (April 2021)
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Experience
Lead Developer (January 2024 - August 2024) Lab for Emerging Intelligence, UC San Diego
- Built and launched an AI-tutor platform used by 600+ students with six developers
- Collaborated with instructors to align AI-tutors with educational objectives
- Designed metrics & continual monitoring systems to identify & mitigate AI harm
Junior Machine Learning Engineer (June 2021 - September 2022) Passio Inc
- Delivered image classification, object detection & tracking solutions for industry leading companies such as Philips, Anthem, MyFitnessPal, Jazeera Paints and Sub-Zero
- Implemented scalable machine learning pipelines on Google Vertex-AI to train and export classification & object detection mobile models
Machine Learning Engineer, Omniaz (May 2019 - April 2020)
Artificial Intelligence Intern, Omniaz (January 2019 - April 2019)
- Developed end-to-end computer vision pipeline to detect and recognize beverages in supermarkets / retail stores using Object Detection, CBIR, and OCR
- Built multilingual OCR system to support 4 languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English)
Last updated: November 30, 2025