Yash Patel

Chicago, IL  ·  Software Engineer | AI/ML Engineer

Building AI systems, scalable pipelines, and real-world software products.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | B.S. Computer Science + Mathematics

GPA: 3.76 / 4.00

Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Discrete Structures, Computer Systems, Machine Learning, Probability & Statistics

Experience

Machine Learning Research Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago

Conducted LLM hallucination analysis, built scalable NLP/text-processing pipelines, and applied prompt engineering, inference optimization, and ML evaluation workflows.

Aug 2025 — Feb 2026

Machine Learning Intern

University of Illinois Chicago

Designed AI systems for patent-style text automation, engineered NLP preprocessing pipelines, and evaluated factual accuracy with embeddings and similarity metrics.

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Web Development Bootcamp

Udemy

Built full-stack web applications using JavaScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, REST APIs, authentication, form validation, and reusable UI components.

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Projects

CatAI

Engineered a Caterpillar inspection copilot that converts inspection inputs into structured 38-field reports, reducing manual reporting time by 20–30%.

Swift Python FastAPI OpenAI Supabase Supermemory

EcoSphere

Built a sustainability-focused full-stack application helping users discover location-based solar panel options with provider integrations and secure authentication.

React.js FastAPI Python Tailwind CSS Google Cloud Clerk Auth

Certifications

The Complete Web Development Bootcamp

Udemy

2025

Java Programming

Codecademy

2024

HTML & CSS

Codecademy

2024