Akhil Theerthala
akhiltvsn@gmail.com
Senior Data Scientist specializing in AI Research, Financial ML, and Open Source Contributions
Projects
AI research, open source contributions, and production systems that make an impact
Featured Projects
Competition-winning datasets and production-ready AI models
PersonalFinance_v2
Reasoning Dataset
🥇 First prize winner in the Reasoning Dataset Creation Competition 2025, organized by Bespoke Labs, HuggingFace & Together.AI. Features high-quality financial reasoning with explicit chain-of-thought explanations.
Kuvera Model Series
Financial Reasoning Models
Collection of 5 specialized language models (8B, 4B, 12B, 14B parameters) optimized for personal finance reasoning and single-GPU deployment in production environments.
Research & Development
Academic research and experimental projects
Financial Services Innovation Lab
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research affiliate working on US finance corpora curation and generalized financial reasoning models with explicit chain-of-thought methodologies.
Social Media & Crowdfunding
IIT Kharagpur Research Project
Undergraduate research project analyzing the impact of social engagement on crowdfunding campaign success using machine learning techniques.
Open Source Contributions
Educational tools and community resources
BYOT
Educational Repository
Build Your Own Transformer - Educational resource covering transformer architecture from attention mechanisms to tokenization strategies.
HF-TIMM Benchmarks
Vision Model Benchmarks
Enhanced benchmarking suite for vision models with model size comparisons for easier model selection workflows.
Get Your Papers
RAG System
Simple RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system for discovering relevant ML papers from ArXiv based on query similarity.
Interested in Collaboration?
Always open to discussing new projects, research opportunities, or contributing to open source initiatives.