Saksham Adhikari
Austin, TX
Nepal-born, Texas-based, eternally curious. I'm Saksham, 21, and I spend my days tinkering with AI, making data tell stories, and building whatever sounds fun. Usually found building AI and ML apps, meditating, reading books and hanging out with my girlfriend❤️ and friends.
- •TPU Cloud Student Researcher at Google - optimizing next-gen AI hardware architectures
- •4.0 GPA Computer Information Systems student at Texas State University with full Merit Scholarship
- •Co-author of 2 research publications with novel AI/ML methodologies in healthcare and protein science
- •Vice President at ACM AI @ TXST - leading 70+ member tech community
- •Currently building Grants-MCP and QuantaFold protein classification system
- •Selected for poster presentation at SC25 (International Conference for High Performance Computing)
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Current Professional Experience
TPU Cloud Student Researcher
August 2025 - Present
- • Leading advanced TPU optimization research on Google Cloud TPU v6e architecture
- • Contributing to open-source vllm project with architecture-adaptive attention backends
- • Architecting multi-agent RL systems for power grid intelligence with 618-dimensional state space
Student Programmer
July 2025 - Present
Center of Analytics and Data Science @ TXST
- • Engineered full-stack researcher discovery tool processing 2,454 academic papers with UMAP clustering
- • Optimized data payload to 259KB achieving sub-500ms load times
- • Architected DevOps lifecycle with GitHub Actions CI/CD and Vercel deployment
Research Assistant
November 2024 - Present
Translational Health Research Center
- • Engineered HIPAA-compliant Python NLP pipeline analyzing 619 patient interactions
- • Reduced data processing time by 40% managing 30k+ patient data points
- • Delivered project 200% under budget using cost-optimized AWS SageMaker
Education
Texas State University • McCoy College of Business
2023-2027
Bachelor of Business Administration
Computer Information Systems with a minor in Data Science
GPA: 4.0
Scholarships & Awards
- • Undergraduate Launch Scholarship (AKAEAF)
- • Texas State Merit Scholarship
- • Merry Kone Fitzpatrick Endowed Scholarship
- • Web Service Company/Montgomery Endowed Scholarship
- • Dean's List 2023-2024
Skills & Interests
Technical Skills
Python
R
MySQL
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Docker
Pine script
MATLAB
Interests
Vipassana
Investing
Books
Distant Running
Sanskrit Scriptures