“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
Hi - I’m Amit Agarwal, a Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with over a decade of experience turning research into dependable production systems. I work where research meets product: GenAI systems backed by retrieval and ranking, shipped with evaluation and safety you can trust under real traffic. I care about the unglamorous bits as much as the shiny ones - clean data, honest metrics, simpler interfaces, and cost/latency that don’t surprise you at scale. I hold a Master’s in Machine Learning & AI from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), and a PGD in ML & AI from IIIT Bangalore.
What I’m focused on
I’m pushing an evaluation-first approach to LLM features. Every surface - RAG, NL2SQL, document understanding, multilingual flows-ships with success criteria, targeted human review where it matters, and dashboards that make regressions obvious. On retrieval, I lean on hybrid search + rerankers that behave well in the wild, plus guardrails that reduce surprises without blocking velocity. For Document AI, I’ve spent time on layout-aware models and synthetic data that scale across messy, real-world documents.
Why it matters
A good system shouldn’t just ace a benchmark once; it should stay healthy as products evolve and edge cases appear. That’s why evaluation, robustness, and safety are first-class citizens in my work and why I publish and review: to turn lessons from production into patterns others can reuse.
🪂 Off the clock: I’m a certified paraglider and a scuba diver-two very fun ways to practice respecting complexity, preparing well, and staying calm when conditions shift.
🌏 Earlier, I worked with AIESEC across India and Thailand; I still enjoy mentoring students and teams building their first real systems.
Looking ahead
I’m excited about evaluation-native AI-systems that surface their confidence and trade-offs by design and about making multilingual and multimodal experiences feel natural, not bolted on.
If any of this sparks ideas, say hi - I’m always up for swapping notes with builders and researchers. You’ll find ways to reach me in the sidebar.