Hello, I’m

Tarun Deep Reddy

MSCS Student at USC (2026 – 2028) | AI/ML Enthusiast

About me

Hey there! 👋

Tarun at his USC graduation, next to the Tommy Trojan statue
Portrait of Tarun

I'm a Master's student studying at USC, pursuing Computer Science, from the 2026 to 2028 batch. Out of everything in this field, AI/ML is what I love most — the math underneath it, and everything we can build with it.

My goal is to grow into an AI/ML researcher and engineer — someone who builds systems that quietly remove repetitive work so people can spend their time on the decisions that actually matter. That's the whole idea behind SKYNET, the project I'm building right now.

  • Generative AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • Optimization
  • Agentic AI
  • LLMs
12×
faster face-recognition inference
23%
CPU use after optimisation
~18%
less demographic performance variance

Toolkit

What I work with.

Agents & LLMs

  • LLMs
  • Agentic AI
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • Google Gemini
  • Adaptive Orchestration
  • Evaluation
  • RAGAS

Vision & speech

  • OpenCV
  • MediaPipe
  • Haar Cascade
  • LBPH
  • Vision Transformers
  • Whisper

Build & ship

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • FAISS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions

experience

Where the hands-on work happened.

AI/ML Student Researcher

AI/ML Student Researcher @ SRM· Apr 2025 – May 2026 · 1 yr 2 mo

  • Built the AI-Powered Workplace Monitoring System — a real-time facial recognition pipeline (Haar Cascade/LBPH) for workplace presence and attendance monitoring, accelerating inference 12x to ~1.1s and cutting CPU utilization to 23%.
  • Reduced demographic subgroup performance variance by ~18% using Context-Aware Synthetic Data Generation (CSDG), Selective Fine-Tuning (SFT), and adaptive loss reweighting.
  • Evaluated model robustness across demographic subgroups and challenging conditions (noise, blur, face-mask occlusion); co-authored a research paper on this work, accepted for publication at ICCP 2026.
Read the paper — "AI Based System for Managing Operations"

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science (General)University of Southern California (USC) · Aug 2026 – May 2028
  • B.Tech Computer Science & EngineeringSRM Institute of Science & Technology · Aug 2022 – May 2026

work

AI/ML engineering, grounded in research.

Computer vision, generative AI, and the evaluation work that makes both trustworthy.

See my work

Multimodal Autonomous Agentic AI System @ USC· May 2026 – Aug 2026

  • OpenCV
  • Whisper
  • LangGraph
  • RAGAS
  • FastAPI
  • Docker

Currently building

ORION

Optimized Research & Intelligence Operations Network — autonomous research, experimentation & evaluation.

  • LLMs
  • Agentic AI
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Multi-Agent Systems

APEX

Adaptive Planning & Execution Engine — adaptive orchestration for AI workflows.

  • Adaptive Orchestration
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Evaluation

Let's connect

Every good idea starts with a hello.

Email, a call, or straight to the code — pick whatever feels right, and I'll get back to you.