Ketaki Dabade

Ketaki Dabade

"What I cannot create,
I do not understand."

[taking him literally. here is what I have created ]

Richard Feynman

Graduate Student at Columbia
AI/ML Engineer

I am currently building AI at a private equity firm, working on knowledge graphs and agents that take the first pass at deal work. Before that: LLM interpretability research at Columbia's CRIS Lab and computer vision on factory floors. Finishing my M.S. in Computer Science this December.

Education

2025 · 2026

M.S. in Computer Science

Machine Learning Track

CRIS Lab under Prof. Venkat Venkatasubramanian. Coursework: Neural Networks & Deep Learning, NLP, Analysis of Algorithms, Continual Learning & Memory Models, Financial Engineering, Databases.

Columbia University
New York, NY
2021 · 2025

B.Tech in Computer Science

CGPA: 3.74 / 4.0 · Published 3 research papers (1 IEEE, 2 Springer)

Coursework: Data Structures, OS, Computer Networks, OOP, AI, Statistics & Probability, Distributed Computing, HPC, Compiler Design.

MIT World Peace University
Pune, India

Experience

AI Engineering Intern

Carlson Private Capital Partners

Jun 2026 · Sep 2026

Building on CPC-OS, the firm's AI platform on Azure: shipping deal lifecycle modules that write to DealCloud CRM through API + MCP integrations, every write behind a human-confirmation gate. Designing CPC-OS thesis modules that put thesis research and the full deal pipeline in one view, from sourcing through diligence.

Architecting RelGraph, a PostgreSQL knowledge graph spanning 22,000+ business owners and 1,500+ M&A targets, with BFS pathfinding up to 4 hops to surface warm introduction paths to acquisition targets.

Research Assistant

CRIS Laboratory, Columbia University

Sep 2025 · Mar 2026

Built a scientific content analysis pipeline: MinerU-based PDF extraction across 3,000+ pages, Qwen3-Embedding for 17,000+ dense vectors, and BERTopic with HDBSCAN discovering 493 topics at 0.9791 mean cosine similarity.

Mapped prerequisite knowledge chains with Gemma topic labeling and hierarchical clustering. This work lays the foundation for Sparse Autoencoder training and LLM interpretability research.

Deep Learning Engineer Intern

AI4M Technology Private Limited

Jul 2024 · Dec 2024

Trained YOLOv7/v8 defect detection models for manufacturing QC. Deployed on NVIDIA Jetson with DeepStream SDK and TensorRT (FP16/INT8) achieving 3x inference speedup and 25% reduced detection latency.

Designed Flask REST APIs for real-time inference across 3 production lines. Built multi-threaded Docker backend with AWS/Azure data pipelines, CI/CD, and 85% test coverage.

Data Analyst Intern

ViLA EmachWirken Private Limited

Jun 2022 · Dec 2022

Built K-Means clustering to identify 5 customer personas. Designed Grafana dashboards tracking 15+ KPIs: revenue, churn, CAC, and operational efficiency.

Conducted EDA on 100K+ transactions using Python and SQL. Automated reporting pipelines, reducing manual work by 40% and enhancing operational visibility by 30%.

Publications

IEEE 2025 · First Author

EEG-Powered Brain-Computer Interface for 3D Hand Gesture Control

End-to-end BCI pipeline from EEG signal acquisition (Emotiv EPOC X) to 3D hand visualization in Blender, achieving 97.63% gesture classification accuracy.

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Springer LNNS 2025

SkillSet Sherpa: Career Counseling with Large Language Models

AI-powered career counselor using GPT-3, EasyOCR resume parsing, and RIASEC psychometric assessments to generate personalized career path recommendations.

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Springer CCIS 2025

ViziAssist: Visual Assistance for Visually Impaired Drivers

Assistive driving system with real-time obstacle detection on NVIDIA Jetson Nano using custom YOLOv7, achieving 0.681 mAP with audio feedback.

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Projects

1st Place · Columbia AI for Good Hackathon

Patrona · AI Voice Safety Companion

Voice-first AI that walks home with users. Hands-free safety through natural conversation: silence detection, safe words, and live GPS alerts to emergency contacts.

View on GitHub
patrona

Good evening,
Ketaki.

Walk Me Home

Last walk

Today · 11:24 PM · 18 min

Safe
Home
History
Settings
4:32
GPS 40.8075, -73.9626

Listening...

Your companion is right here

Heading to

548 W 113th St, New York

I'm Home
Cancel walk
Alert Active
12:47

Alert sent.

Your contacts have been notified.

Contacts notified

M

Mom

Parent

Notified
S

Sarah

Roommate

Notified
Call 911
I'm Safe
End walk
Financial Filing Intelligence

Papertrail · SEC Filing Contradiction Detection

Ingests S&P 500 SEC filings, extracts structured claims, and surfaces contradictions via pgvector similarity, NLI, and an agent-tool pipeline, exposed through a FastAPI backend, Next.js dashboard, and Neo4j graph.

View on GitHub
papertrail.app / contradictions

Live feed

Contradictions detected

LIVE
AAPL · 10-K vs 10-Q HIGH

"Supply chain risk fully mitigated" contradicts later disclosure of component shortages in Q3 outlook.

NLI · 0.94 cos · 0.88 Δ 47 days
TSLA · 8-K vs 10-Q MED

Guidance revised downward after CFO public reaffirmation; Form 4 insider sales filed 9 days prior.

NLI · 0.81 cos · 0.79 Δ 12 days
JPM · 10-Q vs 10-Q LOW

Loan-loss provision narrative softened quarter-over-quarter despite stable credit metrics.

NLI · 0.72 cos · 0.84 Δ 91 days
papertrail.app / graph / AAPL

Neo4j claim graph

AAPL · Supply chain claims

10-K CLAIM 10-Q 8-K F4
supports
contradicts
insider Δ
MATCH (c:Claim)-[r:CONTRADICTS]->(c2)
WHERE r.score > 0.8
RETURN c, r, c2
papertrail.app / agent-trace

Agent tool trace

Detector pipeline · AAPL-2024-Q3

[AGENT] begin claim_id=c_9183
[TOOL] semantic_compare → 0.88
[TOOL] nli_entailment → contradict 0.94
[TOOL] temporal_check → Δ 47d ✓
[TOOL] insider_context → 2 Form 4
[TOOL] severity_score → HIGH
[AGENT] emit contradiction.found

Throughput (filings/min)

00:00 peak 14.2/min now
FastAPI pgvector FinBERT Neo4j Ollama Next.js

Selected Work

More Projects

Skills

LLMs & Agents

Claude API MCP LangChain LangGraph HuggingFace RAG Agent Orchestration LoRA / PEFT Prompt Engineering

ML, NLP & Vision

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn XGBoost Transformers BERTopic spaCy YOLOv7/v8 TensorRT / Jetson

Languages & Engineering

Python C/C++ TypeScript SQL FastAPI Flask React REST APIs System Design

Data, Cloud & Infra

PostgreSQL / pgvector Neo4j FAISS Azure AWS Docker Kubernetes MLflow Git

Awards

2026

1st Place · Columbia AI for Good Hackathon

Patrona AI Voice Safety Companion. Awarded $5,000 in ElevenLabs credits.

2024

2nd Place · HACKMITWPU

CanMan Canteen Management System with NLP chatbot.

2022

Top 100 Nationally · KPIT Hackathon

ViziAssist ADAS assistive driving project.

2025

3 Peer-Reviewed Publications

1 IEEE (First Author) + 2 Springer (LNNS and CCIS) conference proceedings.

Organizations

Columbia Lioness Quantitative

Member

Columbia University

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Member

Columbia University

Certifications

Machine Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI / Stanford Online

Jul 2024

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Google / Coursera

Dec 2023

Google Project Management Professional Certificate

Google / Coursera

Nov 2024

Introduction to AI in the Data Center

NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

Feb 2024

Data Analytics & Visualization Job Simulation

Accenture / Forage

Mar 2024

Mastering Data Structures & Algorithms (C/C++)

Udemy

Sep 2023

The Git & GitHub Bootcamp

Udemy

Feb 2024

Get in Touch

Always open to interesting conversations about AI, research, and building things that matter.