Rishi Raj Grandhe

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Rishi Raj Grandhe

ML engineer & founder building AI systems that serve millions

Exploring what's next. Open to founding-team and senior ML roles.
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0M+Media sources scanned for India's national disease-surveillance system (NCDC)
0K+High-risk TB patients flagged for early intervention across 15 Indian states
0M+Patient records de-duplicated across government health databases

About

Building AI that works at scale

I'm an ML engineer and repeat founder who's spent the past five years deploying AI systems that reach millions, from a national disease surveillance pipeline scanning 400M+ media sources for India's NCDC, to a TB treatment adherence model flagging 100K+ high-risk patients across 15 states. I've published at ACL and NeurIPS, built products from zero to pilots, and I'm always looking for the next hard problem where ML can create genuine real-world impact.

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Projects

Things I've built

Products, research prototypes, and experiments.

Pulp AI

A simulation platform that lets product teams test copy, features, and pricing against AI-generated customer personas, shipping decisions in minutes instead of weeks. Built on FastAPI, Postgres (pgvector), Redis, and Docker.

Multi-agent LLMsSynthetic personasProvider-agnosticFastAPIpgvectorDocker

Edvo

An adaptive assessment co-pilot targeting each student's mastery gaps in real time via an LLM judge loop over a skill graph. Field-piloted across after-school learning centers.

DartFlutterLLM Judge LoopSkill Graph

Primeplay Rentals

A peer-to-peer rental marketplace for high-value scuba gear across India's dive communities, validated via a no-code MVP using a landing page, WhatsApp coordination, and UPI payments.

P2P MarketplaceNo-code MVPWhatsAppUPI
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Research

Published work

Peer-reviewed papers at top conferences, focused on AI for public health at national scale.

NLP for Positive Impact Workshop, ACL 2025

Health Sentinel: An AI Pipeline For Real-time Disease Outbreak Detection

A national-scale, real-time, multi-stage and multi-lingual disease outbreak detection pipeline deployed with India's NCDC, scanning 400M+ media sources, issuing 100K+ alerts, and verifying 5K+ outbreaks through the Media Scanning and Verification Cell.

Machine Learning for Health (ML4H), co-located with NeurIPS 2022
Best Paper

Predicting Treatment Adherence of Tuberculosis Patients at Scale

A similarity-encoded ensemble model deployed across 15 Indian states that flags high-risk TB patients likely to drop off treatment, covering 100K+ patients with fairness-aware reweighting to ensure equitable recall in underserved districts.

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Open to the right opportunity

Founding-team roles, senior ML positions, and interesting collaborations. Drop me a line. I'd love to hear what you're building.