Rahul Jaikrishna

Student Reseacher @ UC Berkeley

Handle

@rahul-k5hd

Role

Student Researcher

Company

University of California Berkeley

About

I am a computer science student focused on systems, security, and applied AI/ML, with a strong interest in runtime behavior and low-level execution. I build projects that bridge operating systems, networking, and machine learning to understand how abstractions behave under real world constraints.

Experience

• Student Researcher at University of California Berkeley
  Sep 2024 to Feb 2025 - Berkeley
  Collaborating with Prof. Christopher Fletcher and Dr. Sushant Dinesh on formal verification of hardware to mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities. Developed formal models of microarchitectural behavior to prove security guarantees against side-channel and transient execution attacks.
• Software Engineering Intern at The College App
  Mar 2023 to 2023 - Illinois
  Built and deployed a production-grade AI college counseling assistant used by real students navigating the U.S. admissions process. Architected and implemented a RAG pipeline combining vector search and LLM reasoning for context-grounded responses.
• AI Trainee at Intel Corporation
  May 2019 to Sep 2020 - Bangalore, India
  Selected among the Top 100 students nationwide for a competitive, multi-month AI training initiative. Built Cyber Detective, an NLP-based system designed to detect and combat online hate speech.

Education

• PES University
  B.Tech, Computer Science
  2023 to 2027
• DPS East
  2023
  12th: 93%; 10th: 91%; School Distinction Award for subject topper in AI

Skills

• Python
• C
• Assembly
• Bash
• Bare-metal kernels
• Memory management
• Linux & DNS internals
• ML / DL
• NLP
• RAG
• CNNs
• Model optimization
• CUDA
• AI for Hardware design

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