Rajat Agarwal
@rajatagarwal
Senior Research Engineer at SHL
Gurugram, India
Rajat Agarwal is a Senior Research Engineer at SHL with extensive experience in LLMs, NLP, and software engineering. He has a strong academic background from IIT Roorkee and has contributed to significant projects in autonomous vehicle safety and AI-driven hiring systems. Rajat is skilled in Python, PyTorch, and prompt engineering, with a proven track record of published research in top-tier conferences like NAACL.
Experience
Senior Research Engineer
SHL
Leading a team in designing next-gen assessments that accurately evaluate candidate analytical skills by applying prompt engineering in real-world case scenarios.
Research Engineer
SHL
Designed and implemented LLM-powered dialog systems to optimize the hiring process, enhancing candidate engagement and reducing time-to-hire. Developed and evaluated RAG systems for customer support teams. Conducted in-depth social media candidate feedback analysis using NLP techniques.
Instructor
Raman Classes
Instructor for Senior Secondary and Undergraduate students in courses including C, Python, C++, Data Structures, Automata, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), and Mathematics.
Research Assistant
NICE Lab IIIT-Delhi
Image Co-Segmentation and Object Saliency
Research Assistant
ADS Lab IIIT-Delhi
Automatic Short Answer Grading (ASAG). Designed ASAG systems using Graph Neural Networks (GNN), NLP techniques, and similarity measures. Achieved an 85% accuracy in scoring student responses. Published a paper in NAACL 2022 conference.
System Software Engineer
Nvidia
Contributed to algorithm design and software development for video drivers and applications within the Tegra division. Led the development of a complete code pipeline that adheres to autonomous vehicle and safety coding standards.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Masters of Technology
Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering Roorkee
Bachelors of Technology
Computer Science and Engineering