Suraj Ranganath
Hello 馃憢
I like to build and do research. Right now, I am working on building and orchestrating agents, AI security, reinforcement learning, EEG tooling, model evals, world-model memory, and data systems.
M.S. Data Science at UCSD. Previously, I helped build BalkanID Copilot and the Identity Intelligence Graph into production products used by enterprise customers. This summer I am interning at C1 in San Francisco, CA.
I'm open to new roles, collaborations, and opportunities. Feel free to reach out at [email protected].
selected work
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BalkanID Copilot production AI agent for identity security over enterprise identity graphs
Helped build an agentic identity-security product used by enterprise customers. The useful part was not the chat box; it was the graph, permissions, evals, monitoring, and action boundaries around it.
- Text-to-Cypher over a multi-tenant Identity Intelligence Graph.
- MCP-style action flows, connector workflows, safe rollout loops.
- 6+ enterprise customers, $200K+ product revenue, 4 patent filings.
agentsknowledge graphsIAMMCP -
Show, Don鈥檛 TELL explainable AI-generated text detection with evidence spans
The detector does not just produce a score. It marks the spans it is reacting to, which makes the interface easier to inspect and argue with.
- Newest paper currently indexed for my scholarly profile.
- Built around the same detector robustness thread as StealthRL.
- Supported by merged work in the public ACMCMC/rl-detector repo.
interpretabilitydetectionevidence spans -
StealthRL fairness-aware RL red-team loop for AI-text detectors
GRPO + LoRA paraphrase training against a detector ensemble, with rewards for evasion, semantic preservation, fluency, and ESL fairness pressure.
- Uses Qwen3-4B-Instruct adapters and detector-transfer evaluation.
- Accepted for poster presentation at Amazon Trusted AI Symposium 2026.
- Public repo currently leads my GitHub by stars.
AI safetyGRPOLoRAfairness -
EEGPrep Python port of EEGLAB, the popular toolbox widely used by EEG researchers
Current open-source work at the Swartz Center on a Python port of EEGLAB, the popular toolbox widely used by EEG researchers. Contributions span GUI parity, rejection/component workflows, plotting, DIPFIT, STUDY metadata, clustering, statistics, packaging, and docs.
- 30 merged PRs in sccn/eegprep as of May 30, 2026.
- Additional SCCN PRs in eeglab and eeglab_conversion.
open sourceEEGPythonresearch tooling -
NAMO and NAMO-D in Marin implemented two new optimizers for foundation models in Marin, mentored by Al Merose
Implemented NAMO and NAMO-D optimizer support for foundation-model training in Marin/Levanter with mentorship from Al Merose: optimizer logic, config classes, registry wiring, exports, tests, and clamping validation.
open sourceoptimizersJAXMarin -
KV Cache Quantization for Self-Forcing Autoregressive Video Generation 33-method study for self-forcing autoregressive video generation
A systems-heavy study of how far KV-cache compression can go before self-forcing autoregressive video generation starts drifting or losing useful quality.
- Tracks VRAM, runtime, compression, VBench, SSIM, LPIPS, PSNR, and drift.
- Finds practical INT4 soft-prune regions around 5.4脳 compression.
world modelsvideo diffusionquantizationsystems -
PIPE-RDF LLM-assisted pipeline for enterprise RDF benchmark generation
Public KGQA datasets rarely match private enterprise schemas. PIPE-RDF builds schema-specific NL-SPARQL benchmarks with validation and repair.
- Reverse queries, retrieval prompting, category balancing, dedupe.
- 450 question-SPARQL pairs across nine categories in the paper setting.
RDFSPARQLbenchmarkingLLMs -
TrailKarma offline-first trail intelligence app with BLE relay and on-device ML
Built during UCSD DataHacks: a delay-tolerant hiking app where phones pass trail reports through Bluetooth until someone reaches connectivity.
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Multimodal Learning Analytics Dataset paper with EEG, eye tracking, GSR, video, and spatial reasoning data
Work from IIT Bombay EdTech Lab on mental rotation tasks and learning analytics. I helped with multimodal data collection, validation, anonymization, and analysis.
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VaultLens Telegram personal knowledge-base agent for memory, deadlines, digests, and calendar-aware context
A recent build around the same thing I keep coming back to: making messy personal context useful without turning it into a dashboard chore.
agentspersonal knowledgeTelegramcontext systems -
Where Bits Matter in World Model Planning mixed-bit world-model planning study showing where low precision breaks
A paired quantization study around DINO-WM. Same bit budget, different behavior: preserving precision in the right place changes planning.
DINO-WMplanningmixed-bit
timeline
- Jun 2026 - nowC1incoming software engineering intern; AI-native identity security
- Jun 2026 - nowSwartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, UC San Diegograduate software engineer with Dr. Arnaud Delorme; porting EEGLAB workflows from MATLAB to Python with attention to parity, numerical accuracy, GUI, and UX
- Jan 2026 - Apr 2026Hal谋c谋o臒lu Data Science Institute, UC San Diegograduate software engineer with Dr. Victor Minces; built M-Flow, a browser-based flow programming tool for learning coding through music
- Jan 2026 - Feb 2026Qualcomm Institute, UC San DiegoAI research program mentor; helped undergraduates with ML fundamentals, experiment design, evaluation, and interpretation
- Sep 2025 - Jan 2027UC San DiegoM.S. Data Science; GPA 4.0/4.0
- May 2023 - Jun 2025BalkanIDmachine learning intern to machine learning engineer; Copilot, Identity Intelligence Graph, evals, connectors, and patent work
- Jan 2023 - Jun 2023IIT Bombay, EdTech Labresearch intern; multimodal learning analytics with EEG, eye tracking, GSR, video, interviews, and spatial reasoning data
- Jun 2022 - Sep 2022Strive Math, YC S21entrepreneur in residence intern; strategy, curriculum, and a recruitment system for 1200+ applications
- Jul 2022 - Aug 2022MySivi, YC W22machine learning intern; T5 grammar correction for Indian English, released to 50,000+ users
- Jan 2022 - Feb 2023Becoming I Foundation, VIT chapterchairperson; led 200+ student volunteers teaching 300+ children across 8 centers
- Jul 2021 - Aug 2021Cisco ThingQbator RVCEsoftware engineering intern; Flutter and Firebase work on Serenity, a mental-health assistant that secured Rs 5 lakh in seed funding
- Aug 2020 - May 2024Vellore Institute of TechnologyB.Tech. Computer Science with specialization in Bioinformatics; GPA 3.98/4.0, top 5 in program, program representative, merit scholarships in AY 2022-23 and 2023-24
- Jul 2018 - Jan 2019Cisco Talent Outreach Programbuilt Solan, a web app for crowdsourced question-bank creation, with a small student team
- 2008 - 2020Sri Kumaran Children's Home CBSEPCM with computer science; Head Boy, House Vice Captain, Class 12: 96.4%, Class 10: 95%, Best in Academics - Science, Change Maker Award
github
suraj-ranganathUS patents
google patents- 2025
- 2026Recommendation and Remediation of Role-Based Access Control Postures for Identitiespublished US20260141091A1
- 2025Multi-Agent Identity Governance and Administration Systempublished US20250343795A1
- 2025
research
google scholar- 2026Show, Don鈥檛 TELL: Explainable AI-Generated Text DetectionAI-text detection, evidence spans, interpretability
- 2026KV Cache Quantization for Self-Forcing Video Generation: A 33-Method Empirical Studyself-forcing autoregressive video generation, KV-cache compression
- 2026PIPE-RDF: An LLM-Assisted Pipeline for Enterprise RDF Benchmarkingknowledge graphs, RDF, benchmark construction
- 2026Where Bits Matter in World Model Planning: A Paired Mixed-Bit Study for Efficient Spatial Reasoningworld models, spatial reasoning, quantization
- 2026StealthRL: Reinforcement Learning Paraphrase Attacks for Multi-Detector Evasion of AI-Text DetectorsAI safety, detector robustness, adversarial paraphrasing
- 2025A Multimodal Dataset of South Asian Post-Graduate Students Working on Mental Rotation Taskspaper; EEG, eye tracking, GSR, video, and learning analytics