Hello, I'm
Akhila
Susarla
AI/ML Engineer • Data Scientist
Building production-grade conversational AI systems, ML pipelines, and data-driven solutions. Currently engineering voice bots handling 10,000+ daily interactions at Copart.
Akhila
3+
Years Experience
<2s
Response Latency
LoRA
LLM Fine-tuning
3.78
GPA at UT Dallas
What I Do
Conversational AI & Voice Bots
Building production-grade voice AI systems with real-time speech processing, IVR navigation, and natural conversation flow optimization.
LiveKitDeepgramElevenLabsGeminiGPT
ML Pipeline Development
End-to-end machine learning pipelines from data preprocessing to model deployment, with MLOps automation and continuous monitoring.
scikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowKubernetesSpinnaker
Data Science & Analytics
Extracting actionable insights from large-scale datasets through statistical modeling, EDA, time-series forecasting, and anomaly detection.
PandasPySparkHadoopDatabricksBigQuery
NLP & LLM Engineering
Fine-tuning and deploying large language models with prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and conversational AI applications.
LangChainLoRA/QLoRATransformersBERTNER
Skills & Tools
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Languages
AI & GenAI
Data Science
& ML
Tools &
Frameworks
Cloud &
DevOps
PythonSQLTypeScriptJavaScriptC/C++
LLMs (Gemini, GPT, Claude)LangChainPrompt EngineeringLiveKitDeepgram (STT)ElevenLabs (TTS)LoRA / QLoRARAG
NumPyPandasscikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowPySparkHadoopStatistical ModelingEDATime-Series ForecastingClustering & SegmentationAnomaly DetectionModel EvaluationCross-ValidationNLPLDAPCA
GitJupyterDatabricksDatadogPostmanNode.jsGraphQLMongoDBMariaDBMS SQL ServerApache KafkaElasticsearchn8nExcel
AWS (SageMaker, S3, Lambda)Azure DevOpsKubernetesSpinnakerCI/CDGCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery)Docker
Experience
February 2026 - Present
June 2025 - August 2025
July 2023 - July 2024
July 2022 - June 2023
June 2021 - August 2021
Projects
InvestIQ
DeployedBuilt a beginner-friendly portfolio management platform for a Goldman Sachs / UTD JSOM hackathon, pairing seeded Supabase data, scenario-based rebalancing, and Kuber AI guidance across a web app, floating widget, and Chrome extension. Placed in the top 5 at the May 2026 competition.
Top 5 FinalistHackathon ProjectAI Agent KuberWeb + Extension
Next.js 16TypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabaseRechartsPlasmoGroqElevenLabs
Real-time NER Radar
DeployedBuilt a large-scale real-time data pipeline processing Reddit comments through Apache Kafka and PySpark to extract named entities and visualize trending topics in Kibana, demonstrating expertise in distributed stream processing and NLP at scale.
Real-time StreamingNER at ScaleKibana Dashboards
Apache KafkaPySparkNLTKElasticsearchKibanaLogstashReddit API
Influence Maximization in Complex Networks
PublishedCo-authored a Springer-published research paper presenting algorithmic solutions for identifying the most influential nodes in complex networks — a core challenge in viral marketing, epidemic control, and social network analysis.
Springer PublishedFICTA 2023NP-Hard Optimization
PythonGraph TheoryNetwork AnalysisGreedy Algorithms
CorroSight
DeployedBuilt an AI-powered pipeline integrity platform that automates alignment of In-Line Inspection data across 15+ years and multiple vendors, predicting corrosion degradation and generating prioritized repair schedules from fragmented datasets.
Digital Twin in <10s59+ Event TypesAI Risk Simulation
PythonFastAPIAngularxAI GrokHungarian AlgorithmNLP
UniWay — Campus Navigation & Analytics
PrototypeDesigned and prototyped an intelligent campus navigation and space-booking platform solving real scheduling conflicts through real-time room availability tracking and interactive campus mapping, built in a 24-hour hackathon.
2nd Runner-UpCBRE Partnership24hr Hackathon
FigmaAnalyticsUI/UX DesignProduct Strategy
Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Data
CompletedDeveloped a multi-model sentiment analysis framework comparing TF-IDF, Word2Vec, GloVe, and LSTM approaches against fine-tuned BERT, achieving 81.56% accuracy on US airline tweet sentiment classification.
81.56% AccuracyBERT Fine-tuned5 Model Comparison
PythonBERTLSTMTF-IDFWord2VecGloVescikit-learn
Mushroom Species Classifier
CompletedBuilt a deep learning image classifier using transfer learning with EfficientNetB0 to identify 9 mushroom genera from ~6,700 web-scraped images, tackling real-world class imbalance and noisy data through a two-phase training strategy.
9 Genera6,700 ImagesEfficientNetB0
PythonTensorFlowKerasEfficientNetB0Transfer Learning
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
Master's in Computer Science — Specialization in Data Science
Dallas, TX, USA
August 2024 - May 2026
3.78/4.0Completed- Recipient of Operations Attendant of the Year Award, Student Union (2025)
- Runner-up for the CBRE prompt at UXperience 2024 with UniWay
- Top 5 project at the UTD JSOM x Goldman Sachs Hackathon (May 2026) with InvestIQ
- Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jaffal Wafa for Computer Architecture for one semester, mentoring and supporting students
SRM University - AP, Amaravati
Bachelor's in Computer Science — Specialization in AI/ML
Amaravati, AP, India
August 2019 - May 2023
3.64/4.0Completed- Board Member of ACM Women's Chapter (2019-2022)
- Organizer of HackSRM 2.0 national-level hackathon
- Published a paper on influence maximization under the guidance of Prof. Jayalakshmi Tangirala
Art & Illustration
When I'm not engineering AI systems, I draw. Check out my art page on Instagram.
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