About

About Me

Background & Bio
Identity

Riddhima Medatwal

I'm a CS undergrad at Rutgers studying applied ML and robotics. I do research in two labs: PRACSYS, where I work on robot controller verification using flow matching (first-author paper under review at IROS), and TRUST-ME, where I work on genomic sequence classification with a novel attention mechanism on DNABERT-2 (second-author paper under submission). I'm an Accenture ML Fellow through Cornell Tech and I lead the software department for Rutgers VEX U Robotics.

I got into building through FIRST Robotics in high school, then VEX U in college. Somewhere along the way I stopped thinking about robots as machines and started thinking about what it takes for any AI system to work reliably in the real world. That pulled me into research labs, generative modeling, multi-agent systems, and eventually a habit of building things faster than I can write about them.

I gravitate toward problems where the system has to actually work, not just demo well. That's why I flew to SF to build a latte art robot with a VLA, built a voice agent that handles real restaurant calls end to end, and wrote a shared memory library for multi-agent systems that cuts redundant work in half. I don't pick projects by domain. I pick them by whether the problem is hard enough to be interesting and real enough to matter.

Roles

Experience

Current & Recent
Oct 2025 / Now

Undergraduate Researcher

PRACSYS Lab / Rutgers

Robotics ML. Regime classification in high-dimensional dynamical systems under Prof. Kostas Bekris. ~60% fewer labels needed, 97% classification accuracy near regime transition points.

Oct 2025 / Now

Undergraduate Researcher

TRUST-ME Lab / Rutgers

Computational genomics under Prof. Yossi Cohen. Transformer sequence models on 640M+ DNA bases for fungicide resistance prediction. ~73% held-out accuracy.

Sep 2025 / Dec 2025

Machine Learning Fall Fellow

Accenture / NYC

NLP for misinformation detection. Transformer pipelines across 170K+ news articles. ~20% accuracy lift, ~35% shorter test cycles. Placed via Cornell Tech Break Through Tech AI.

May 2025 / Now

Cornell Tech ML Fellow

Break Through Tech AI

Applied ML fellowship with industry placements. Selected from 3000+ applicants.

2024 / Now

Programming Team Lead

Rutgers VEX U Robotics

22nd internationally at VEX U Worlds 2025.

Stack

Category
Tools
ML & Data
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy
Languages
Python, TypeScript, Java, C/C++, Swift, SQL
Systems
Linux, Git, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, Node.js, React, Next.js
Hardware
ESP32, Arduino, LoRa, LIDAR

Earlier

2024NCWIT Aspirations in Computing / NJ Regional Affiliate Award
2024Guest Speaker / Princeton University Young Women's Conference
2023Women in Engineering Math & Science Award / Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

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