Arnav Rustagi

ARNAV
RUSTAGI

ML Engineer, Wayground · Founder, Gradeasy · Gurgaon, India
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Experience
2026

Founder

Full-timeJan 2026 — Present
Gradeasy

Deterministic AI grading assistant giving teachers consistent, bias-free feedback at scale. No hallucinations, no surprises.

TypeScriptAIEdTech
2025

Software Engineer

InternshipMay 2025 — Present
Wayground (Quizizz)India, On-site

Agentic AI pipelines for aesthetic and content alignment serving 75M+ users. Internal tooling, modularisation, and system design.

Agentic AITypeScriptPython
2024

Co-Founder & CEO

StartupSep 2024 — May 2025
Raag

Gamified soft-skills platform via research-backed games. Top 5 of 600+ teams at IIT Guwahati Disrupt. Led all technical development and product design.

StartupTypeScriptProduct
2024

Research Intern

ResearchJan — Jul 2024
HTI Lab, PlakshaMohali

Developed Dhvani: weakly-supervised phonemic error detection for Hindi CAPT. Published at Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam. Proficiency, enunciation, and disfluency analysis.

MLNLPPyTorch
2024

Summer Intern

ResearchJun — Jul 2024
IIT BombayMumbai

Built BitPy, a variable bit precision Python3 transpiler. Static type checking via AST. Custom FPGA-like datatypes with variable bit precision integers.

PythonCompilersSystems
2024

Machine Learning Intern

InternshipMay 2024 — Jan 2025
Plaksha University

Published Dhvani under Prof. Siddharth (ex-Microsoft). Built demo application. Journal extension in progress.

MLFull-StackAI
2023

Founding President

Self-employedSep 2023 — Nov 2024
LEAP.AI@Plaksha

Founded and led the AI club at Plaksha with a team of 18. Applied ML workshops, RL project teams, democratising AI education.

LeadershipMLTeaching
2023
Teaching AssistantPlaksha University

TA for Computational Thinking — DSA in C.

2023
Software InternPlaksha University

Fluid dynamics simulation using OpenDrift and PyGame.

2022
Networking InternPlaksha University

Novel networking project under Prof. K. Gopinath.

2022
Frontend DeveloperSTEMX Education

Designed and built UI/UX for stemx.education.

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Research
2025Interspeech

“Dhvani: A Weakly-supervised Phonemic Error Detection and Personalized Feedback System for Hindi”

Arnav Rustagi, Satvik Bajpai, Nimrat Kaur

A novel deep learning approach for computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) for Hindi. Weakly-supervised learning detects and localises phonemic errors with personalised user feedback — no expensive phoneme-level annotations required.

Interspeech 2025Rotterdam, NetherlandsNLPSpeech MLGitHub →
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Achievements
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01Interspeech 2025Rotterdam, NetherlandsResearch paper published
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02Disrupt '25IIT GuwahatiTop 5 / 600+ teams
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03Hack the FutureIIT GandhinagarWinners — AI Data Extraction
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04Nation of InnovationMDI GurgaonRunner-up
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05e-Yantra RoboticsIIT BombayTop 5 / 450+ teams
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Education
2026

B.Tech, Computer Science

Aug 2022 — Present
Plaksha University

Activities: Programming, music. Research: Dhvani (Interspeech 2025).

High School Diploma, Science

Shikshantar Senior Secondary School

Activities: Programming, Badminton.

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Skills
Languages
PythonTypeScriptGoRustDart
AI / ML
PyTorchBERTTransformersComputer VisionNLP
Frontend
Next.jsReactTailwind CSSFramer Motion
Backend
Node.jsFastAPIFlaskOpenDrift
Systems
AST / CompilersFPGA datatypesNetworking
Tools
GitPlaywrightDocker
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Selected Work