Ayush Thakur

I build and evaluate AI systems.

I am a Manager, AI Engineering at Weights & Biases by CoreWeave. I work on internal coding agents, harness benchmarks, memory, and methods for learning from previous runs.

Previously, I was a growth MLE at W&B. I built open-source integrations, production RAG systems such as Wandbot, technical courses, and practical ML writing. This work helped developers adopt W&B across training, evaluation, and LLM application workflows.

I started with autonomous robots and computer vision. Those projects taught me to work quickly, test ideas in hardware and code, and own the result. I am looking for research collaborators working on agents, memory, and learning from experience.

News

2026
Won a solo silver medal, ranking 132nd of 4,729 teams, in Kaggle Orbit Wars.
2025
Started leading AI engineering work at W&B.
2025
Shipped evaluation and observability support for the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
2025
Released LLM apps: Evaluation, created with Anish Shah and guest instructors from Google and All Hands AI.
2024
Released RAG++ and published the results of the Wandbot refactor.

Experience in brief

2025–now
Manager, AI Engineering · W&B by CoreWeave
Agent engineering, internal productivity, evaluation harnesses, and applied research.
2020–2025
Machine Learning Engineer · Weights & Biases
Open-source integrations, LLM evaluation, Wandbot, courses, Kaggle programs, and technical education.
2020
Technical Author · Weights & Biases
Technical reports on deep learning, computer vision, and practical ML engineering.

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Writing and teaching

I have published 70 technical reports and 73 public notebooks across LLM systems, RAG, deep learning, computer vision, generative modeling, training infrastructure, and applied ML. I have also helped create three free technical courses and spoken at W&B events, DataHack Summit, GDG communities, and local ML workshops.

Publication

2020
IEEE ICCE
Feature extraction and classification of phonocardiograms using convolutional neural networks
With Devjyoti Chakraborty, Snehangshu Bhattacharya, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, and Chira Datta. We transformed heart-sound recordings into spectrograms and used convolutional neural networks to classify normal and abnormal phonocardiograms.IEEE · Google Scholar

Earlier

I studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata. During college I built line followers, maze solvers, and a grid-navigation robot that avoided obstacles and retraced the shortest route.

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