Ishaani Jain

ishaani.jain1@gmail.com Seattle, WA & Irvine, CA U.S. Citizen linkedin.com/in/ishaanijain github.com/ishaanijain ishaani.site

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Python, C++, CUDA, JavaScript (React), HTML, CSS, SQL, R
Web & Tools: React.js, FastAPI, REST APIs, Git, IntelliJ / VS Code, Docker, Linux
ML & CV: PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT, OpenCV, ONNX, scikit-learn
Cloud & Systems: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Bedrock, CDK), GPU kernel optimization, Unreal Engine 5
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Embodied AI, HPC, AI Safety

Experience

Software Developer Engineer Intern

May 2026 – Present

C2S Technologies, Inc. · Seattle, WA

Developing full-stack software solutions including front-end interfaces and back-end services; collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, write technical documentation, and deliver production-ready features.
Applying proficiency in Java, JavaScript (React), HTML/CSS to build and maintain enterprise-grade applications with a focus on usability, performance, and compliance with organizational standards.

Researcher

Apr 2026 – Present

CSAIL · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Hybrid)

Accelerating irregular and unstructured computational problems by designing efficient GPU systems and programming models in C++ and CUDA; optimizing memory hierarchies and execution pipelines for high-performance computing applications.
Producing technical documentation of system architectures, benchmarking methodologies, and experimental results within the research groups of MIT CSAIL faculty.

Research Assistant

Apr 2026 – Present

Human Sensing Lab · Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Authoring a photorealistic Unreal Engine 5 synthetic data pipeline generating large-scale annotated human motion sequences; designing multi-scenario video generation protocols to quantify how synthetic visual diversity drives pose estimation accuracy in real-world robot deployments.

Undergrad Researcher

Mar 2026 – Present

Ramsey Lab · Oregon State University (Hybrid)

Architecting high-performance infrastructure for the NIH NCATS Biomedical Data Translator, directly improving how scientists query and integrate global medical databases.

Outreach Officer

Feb 2026 – Present

AWSCloud@UCI · Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Connecting students with cloud computing resources, organizing workshops, and facilitating AWS certification study groups.

Software Development Intern

Feb 2026 – Apr 2026

GoFlyy · Los Angeles, CA (Top 4% of applicants)

Architected an end-to-end software pipeline for automated garment condition assessment, transforming manual inspections into a scalable AI-powered logistics workflow; achieved 90%+ defect classification accuracy and slashed inference latency 67% (2.1s to 680ms) via TensorRT INT8 quantization.

Undergrad AI/ML Researcher

Feb 2026 – Apr 2026

Calit2 · UC Irvine

Building physics-based AI to detect wildfires from over 6 miles away, providing critical early-warning data to ALERTCalifornia and emergency responders.

AI Safety Undergrad Research Fellow

Jan 2026 – Mar 2026

SPAR · UC Irvine

Selected for a competitive, 8-week fellowship to conduct specialized research on AI evaluation methodologies and alignment.

Founding Software Engineering Intern

Sept 2025 – Mar 2026

Stealth Aviation Tech Startup · Remote

Built and documented production full-stack infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CDK), achieving 90%+ data extraction accuracy on aviation compliance documents; cut API latency 65% (8s to 2.8s) and maintained 90%+ test coverage across 15K LOC.
Wrote comprehensive technical documentation for system architecture, API contracts, and deployment procedures; scaled platform to 2 international clients processing 500+ documents/month.

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

C2S Technologies, Inc. · Remote

Won 1st place and $10,000 in funding by leading a team of three to architect and launch an AI-driven investment matchmaking platform using RAG and UED.

Projects

Candid — IrvineHacks 2026 Best Overall Winner

React · FastAPI · RAG · LLaMA 3.3 70B · ChromaDB

Won best overall; built a full-stack application with a React front-end and FastAPI back-end over a RAG pipeline indexing 52,500+ real legislative chunks across all 50 states.
Trained regression model on 10-year Census data (R²=0.61) predicting household-level financial impact of legislation.

High-Performance CUDA Kernels

C++ · CUDA · PyTorch

Delivered 3x+ throughput over cuBLAS via shared memory tiling, warp-level primitives, and bank-conflict elimination; achieved 40%+ memory bandwidth reduction via register blocking.
Shipped as a PyTorch C++ extension with rigorous profiling via nsight-compute.

CNN Image Classifier with Full Training Infrastructure

Python · PyTorch · ONNX

Implemented ResNet-18 from scratch with a complete training pipeline including data augmentation, cosine LR scheduling, and early stopping; achieved 90% test accuracy on CIFAR-10.
Exported via ONNX for hardware-agnostic cross-platform deployment.

PyTorch DataLoader Optimization

Python · PyTorch · CUDA

A hands-on toolkit for profiling and optimizing PyTorch data loading pipelines. Demonstrates how to cut data loading overhead from ~40% to ~10% of total training time using smart batching, parallel augmentation, and CUDA prefetching.

Calendar AI

Python · Claude API · Google Calendar

AI-powered planner that parses natural language ("Study for 2 hours"), understands when you're busy, finds optimal open slots, and automatically syncs changes to Google Calendar.

Education

University of California, Irvine

Sep 2025 – Jun 2027

B.S. Computer Science, Minor: Statistics · GPA 4.0 · Junior Standing as Freshman

Coursework: Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, C++, Linear Algebra, Multi-variable Calculus, Statistics

Clubs: CS: Bits & Bytes · ICSSC · AI@UCI · QC@UCI · Society of Physics Students · AWS Cloud Club (Outreach Officer)