Khushi Malik

Mathematics Undergraduate • AI/ML Researcher

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Khushi Malik

+91-9536110472  |  khushimalik511263@gmail.com

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Education

Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi

Delhi, India | Aug 2023 – May 2026

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

CGPA: 8.27/10.0

Work Experience

Planto AI

Remote, New Delhi | Aug 2025 – Nov 2025

Lead AI Researcher

  • Spearheaded optimization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, achieving an 18% increase in LLM accuracy and a 25% reduction in latency through advanced re-ranking and semantic chunking strategies.
  • Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers to ship an AI-powered VS Code extension utilizing multi-agent workflows, driving a 30% boost in developer productivity.
  • Engineered cost-efficient model fine-tuning workflows using Hugging Face Transformers and PEFT (LoRA), reducing cloud infrastructure costs by 40%.
  • Collaborated with executive stakeholders to define AI strategy and presented data-driven insights that accelerated adoption of AI initiatives by 15%.

Planto AI

Remote, New Delhi | May 2025 – July 2025

AI Researcher

  • Optimized LLM inference by implementing tokenization improvements and prompt compression, increasing speed by 20% and response relevance by 15%.
  • Architected scalable end-to-end ML pipelines using Python and Hugging Face, enabling production rollout within 4 weeks handling 10k+ daily queries.
  • Designed and deployed enterprise-grade RAG systems for efficient retrieval across organizational datasets.
Freelance Projects

UNIDO AfricaRice Edge AI Mobile App

Flutter, Dart, TensorFlow Lite, ONNX, PyTorch

  • Built a 100% offline Flutter-based mobile AI system to classify rice quality on low-end Android devices by optimizing a ConvNext Vision Transformer via ONNX graph surgery and FP16 quantization, reducing model memory footprint by 50% and tile input size by 75%.
  • Prevented OOM crashes on MediaTek Helio CPUs using Dart background isolates and ARM big.LITTLE core tuning, enabling real-time predictions from 12MP images without UI lag on 6GB RAM devices.

Amini GeoFM - Decoding the Field Challenge

Python, PyTorch, Google Earth Engine

  • Built a hybrid satellite time-series classification system to predict crop types from Sentinel-2 imagery by optimizing seasonal pattern learning using PatchTST transformer embeddings fused with vegetation indices (NDVI, NDRE, SAVI).
  • Achieved robust classification of irregular multivariate field data using a soft-voting ensemble of Random Forest, SVM, and Logistic Regression, achieving 0.7473 Macro F1.
Projects

AI Finance News System

LangGraph, RAG Pipelines, Python, SQL

  • Built a multi-agent financial news system to reduce information overload through redundancy removal and actionable insight extraction.
  • Delivered context-aware Q&A for traders and managed end-to-end development from problem definition to ML optimization.

AI Medical Assistance System

LLMs, LoRA/PEFT, Hugging Face, Python

  • Fine-tuned a medical LLM on clinical reasoning datasets to generate accurate and explainable responses using Chain-of-Thought prompting.
  • Integrated real-time LLM inference into a Python backend for clinical question answering.
Achievements & Certifications
  • Zindi Competition: Global Rank 120 as a Data Scientist among 100k Data Scientists, awarded prize money of USD 2000 across Data Science Competitions.
  • Received Letter of Recommendation from Coding Jr.
  • Certifications: Excel Business Intelligence, SQL Beginner to Advanced, Python Beginner to Advanced.
Technical Skills
Languages & Frameworks: Python, SQL, TypeScript, FastAPI, PyTorch, Hugging Face
AI/ML & GenAI: RAG, PEFT/LoRA, NLP, LLMs, Transformers
Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Git/GitLab, Weights & Biases
Databases: Pinecone (Vector DB), PostgresSQL