Akash Gogate

Exploring the space where systems think and biology inspires.

From satellite observationscheduling at Leidos to LLM pipelines for cancer biology.

CS + Biology at UW-Madison | Computing for biology's next frontier.

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00 / About

Hi, I'm Akash.

I'm a CS + Biology student at UW-Madison, graduating in May 2028. Right now I'm building LLM agent pipelines for spatial transcriptomics research at the Kendziorski Lab, and my industry experience has been in backend infrastructure and distributed systems at Leidos.

I grew up in Princeton, NJ, where I spent a lot of time on tennis courts (still do). I've coached players and run tournaments. The stringing business came out of that too. That's where I learned that most interesting problems look messier up close than from a distance, and that knowing the fundamentals is what lets you improvise when things go sideways.

I like working on problems where the technical details actually matter. You can't shortcut them. You have to actually understand what's going on to solve them.

The goal is to build things that need both solid engineering and good design to work, not just one or the other. That's where the most interesting problems are, and where I want to spend my career.

3.8 GPA · Dean's List · CS + Biology, UW-Madison · Graduating May 2028 · Open to Summer 2027 internships & co-ops

Featured Project

Architected failure-driven self-improvement loop for LLM agents across a 5,000+ task benchmark, outperforming ReAct baseline by 15pp via RAG-enhanced retrieval and Transformer neural network reasoning; built AgentBench + LLM-as-judge eval infrastructure with GitHub Actions CI/CD. Optimized inference via fine-tuning, task horizon tuning, and parameter search; built provider-agnostic serving abstraction supporting end-to-end ML pipeline scaled to horizon 20. Engineered LLM-as-judge harness scoring 7 dimensions; implemented novel repeated_failure_rate metric to quantify self-improvement efficacy.

Python LLM APIs RAG Transformers AgentBench Inference Optimization GitHub Actions CI/CD

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Self-ImprovingLLM Agent

00 / Education

University of Wisconsin–Madison

B.S. Computer Science & Biology · August 2024 — May 2028

3.8 GPADean's List: Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025

Software & Product Development

Computer Science Capstone

Android Application Development

Virtual Reality

Game Development

Web Development

Big Data Systems

Biology

Bioinformatics

Computational Biology

Genetics

Cell Biology

Statistics for the Life Sciences

Computer Science

Data Structures

Advanced Algorithms

Deep Learning

Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence

Linear Algebra

Machine Organization and Programming

Intro to Computer Engineering

Operating Systems

Database Management Systems

Cryptography

Differential Equations

Discrete Mathematics

Programming I

Programming II

Programming III

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Where I've worked

Systems & Infrastructure

Leidos

Software Engineer Intern

May 2025 - Present

Optimized multi-objective satellite scheduling with memoization and dynamic programming in Python, then rewrote the engine in Rust for the team's production microservice ecosystem.

Designed a Kafka event-driven pipeline persisting to MongoDB with at-least-once delivery, decoupling mission-critical satellite operations.

Containerized a Docker test suite on Kubernetes via GitHub Actions CI/CD, with pytest coverage for boundary conditions and fault injection.

Built a Claude Code MCP plugin on an institutional knowledge graph mapping team ontologies and service dependencies, serving 30 engineers across a multi-team defense program.

Python Kafka Kubernetes Docker MongoDB Dynamic Programming GitHub Actions CI/CD Rust Neo4j

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Research & Biotech

The Kendziorski Lab, UW-Madison

Student Research Intern

September 2025 - Present

Built ML pipeline for scRNA-seq, NGS, and spatial transcriptomics; agentic framework selects models across scVI/scANVI/scGen/AmortizedLDA, cutting GPU runtime 300% (80→27 min).

Built TransferAgent, automating NLP literature synthesis and validity scoring across ~500 papers, cutting review time ~60%.

Co-authoring a clinical genomics publication on model performance and pipeline reproducibility for glioblastoma gene therapy research, 10-person interdisciplinary lab.

Python R LLM APIs Scanpy Seurat CARD scRNA-seq scVI scANVI Weights & Biases GitHub Actions

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Research & Biotech

Inspirit AI

Machine Learning Research Intern

Sep 2022 - Mar 2023

Built skin cancer detection pipeline (OpenCV + scikit-learn, NumPy/Pandas) achieving 95% classification accuracy on ~70,000 dermoscopic images; published as first author on 'Early Skin Cancer Detection Improvement' through Inspirit AI.

Trained and validated Random Forest classifier on miRNA sequences achieving 95% predictive accuracy (p < 0.05); validated via stratified k-fold cross-validation for cancer cell likelihood prediction.

Python scikit-learn OpenCV Decision Tree KNN ML Research

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Leadership

Princeton Racket Club

Tennis Coach & Tournament Director

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Directed 8 regional tournaments (380+ match entries, 100% on-time initialization) while coaching 3 classes of 8-10 athletes ages 8-65, in a dual tournament director and head coach role.

Guided 3 junior athletes to 150+ regional ranking points and 5 adults up a full 0.5 NTRP competitive level through data-driven, skill-adapted coaching regimens.

Leadership Communication Event Management

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Leadership

Tennis Racket Stringing Services

Founder

Jan 2019 - Present

Founded and scaled an independent racket stringing business to 45+ clients, servicing 12-20 rackets monthly with a premium 2-day turnaround tier alongside the standard 3-4 day SLA.

Grew the client base through multi-channel grassroots marketing: word-of-mouth referrals, flyers at local parks, high school team referral discounts, and an Instagram page of stringing craftsmanship.

Entrepreneurship Operations Client Relations Inventory Management

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00 / Projects

Things I've built

Self-Improving LLM Agent

Failure-driven agent that learns from its own mistakes. Tested on 5,000+ tasks, consistently outperforming ReAct by 15 percentage points.

PythonLLM APIsRAGTransformers· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

Lotus Health

Financial risk engine over a 1,080-node ICD-10 comorbidity graph, querying 45 million insurance records to compute 5-year disease cost paths.

PythonSQLRAGICD-10· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

LLM Agent Pipeline for Spatial Transcriptomics

End-to-end ML pipeline for scRNA-seq, NGS, and spatial transcriptomics. Agentic framework selects and evaluates models across scVI/scANVI/scGen/AmortizedLDA; cut GPU computation 300%.

PythonPyTorchLLM APIsScanpy· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗Research project, no public repo

SAT Practice Test Generator

GPT-4o tutor that finds your weak SAT domains and generates exam-matched practice questions on demand.

TypeScriptReact.jsNode.jsFastAPI· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

Computer Vision Hand Tracking System

Real-time hand gesture and joint angle tracking pipeline using OpenCV and MediaPipe. Outputs biomechanical data for clinical motion capture, rehabilitation, and sports performance analysis.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipeComputer Vision· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

Ecological Conservation Game

10,000-agent C++ simulation with spatial hashing and GPU-instanced rendering, sustaining 60+ FPS as bots evolve across generations.

C++RaylibGame AIMulti-Agent· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

USTA Tournament Explorer

Android app for discovering USTA tennis tournaments with an interactive map, radius filtering, and NTRP skill-level matching.

Android SDKJavaGraphQLMobile· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗GitHub ↗

microRNA Cancer Detection (miRcore)

Random forest classifier on microRNA expression profiles to predict cancer biomarkers. 95% accuracy (p < 0.05).

RBioconductorRandom ForestmicroRNA· Skills ↗Click to explore ↗Research project, no public repo

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Always learning.

Here's where I am right now. Picked up most of these through working on real projects, and the list keeps growing.

Languages

Python·TypeScript·R·Java·JavaScript·C++·Rust·SQL·Node.js

Infrastructure

Docker·GitHub Actions·REST APIs·Kafka·Kubernetes·MongoDB·FastAPI·Redis·DuckDB·Neo4j·System Design

ML & Data

Machine Learning·PyTorch·LLM APIs·NumPy·Pandas·Scikit-learn·Weights & Biases·TensorFlow·OpenCV·MediaPipe·Whisper·CUDA·Decision Trees·KNN·Cross-Validation·Statistical Modeling

Agentic & LLM

RAG·LLM Agents·Semantic Similarity Search·Vector Databases·AgentBench / Benchmarking·Inference Optimization

Bioinformatics & Genomics

Scanpy·Seurat·CARD·Bioconductor·scVI·scANVI·scGen·AmortizedLDA·NGS·Spatial Transcriptomics

Frontend & Mobile

React.js·Android SDK·GraphQL·Cytoscape.js·Deepgram·Raylib

Developer Tools

GitHub·pytest·Code Review·OOP·Claude Code / MCP

Leadership & Product

Leadership·Communication·Event Management·Entrepreneurship·Operations·Client Relations·Inventory Management·Product Design·Spatial Computing·AR (Augmented Reality)·Accessibility

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Recognition & Awards

2nd Place, 2-Person TeamJul 2026

TEL: Spatial Intelligence Ideathon

UW-Madison

—Placed 2nd at a competitive UW-Madison ideathon, pitching a dual-product airport accessibility platform combining ZaiNAr sub-meter indoor positioning with SGA AR spatial computing.
—Designed a B2B tool giving airline staff real-time sub-meter wheelchair-passenger tracking between gates, paired with a B2C app letting family track accessible relatives through the terminal.

Spatial Computing AR Accessibility Product Design

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Get in touch

Open to Summer 2027 internships and co-ops in software engineering, AI/ML, data science, biotech, and computational biology research. Available May 15 – Sep 1. Email is the best way to reach me.

UW–Madison

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