Abhijith Nagarajan
Software engineer — Applied AI; MS Statistics
abhijith-nagarajan
Urbana, Illinois
Joined May 2026
Summary
Applied AI and software engineering practitioner: combines software engineering roles at startups with applied AI work, listed as a founding/early engineer at CompFly AI and as an applied AI engineer at a stealth startup. huggingface+1
Graduate-level statistics training and research involvement: pursuing an MS in Statistics at UIUC (2023–2025) and engaged with the NCSA Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, including participation as a technical contact on a Virtual CRISPR hackathon project. illinois+1
Hands-on data science and visualization projects: authors of an IPL exploratory data analysis using Plotly with code and notebooks published on GitHub and Kaggle, and wrote a Medium post documenting the learning process. github+2
Industry automation and analytics experience: prior roles at HP (RPA Developer and QA intern) and Bayer (data science / analytics intern and data scientist) reflect experience in automation, analytics, and applied machine learning in industry settings. facebook+1