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Amit Kumar

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New York, United States

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    Software Engineer
    Tinfoil Labs
    Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 (8 months)
    Developed a full-stack AI companion app with real-time chat, voice, and video avatar interaction. Built using Next.js 15 (App Router) and Supabase for authentication, database, and storage. Integrated GPT-4 Realtime API for dynamic dialogue, SSE-based streaming chat interface for progressive content loading, and Python agents over LiveKit for low-latency communication. Added ElevenLabs for TTS, OpenAI STT for speech recognition, Fal.ai for image rendering, and Hedra for video avatars.
  • Consensys
    Software Engineer Intern
    Consensys
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 (3 months)
    Implemented the first in-circuit GKR verifier for scalar multiplication in Go by batching sumchecks in each layer, reducing constraints and verification time.
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    Applied Cryptography Intern
    Holonym Foundation
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 (4 months)
    Built the first zkSNARK-based email recovery mechanism in TypeScript using zkEmail, enabling trustless and secure wallet restoration with recovery contract in Solidity.
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    Master of Science in Cybersecurity
    New York University, Tandon School of Engineering
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years 1 month)
    GPA: 3.45/4.0
  • The Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Master of Science in Physics (PhD Track)
    The Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Aug 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 1 month)
    GPA: 3.62/4.0
  • Delhi College of Engineering
    BTech in Engineering Physics
    Delhi College of Engineering
    Aug 2015 - May 2019 (3 years 10 months)
    GPA: 7.95/10.0
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    Diffusion Text to Speech Model
    Fine-tuned StyleTTS2 (Stage-2: diffusion + duration/F0 heads) on ~320 h curated podcasts, improving naturalness and prosody while reducing whisper artifacts. Automated cleaning/noise reduction with Python + FFmpeg for reproducible large-scale training.
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    Whisper Fine-Tuning
    Fine-tuned Whisper for speaker-tagged transcription using LoRA; added event tokens for emotion capture. Achieved 18% WER reduction.
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    Personal Data MCP
    Developed modular data-grant service for AI agents via MCP + Cloudflare OAuth; implemented RAG API with FastAPI + Supabase.
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    Data Analysis
    Hospital readmission classifier (AUC 0.87), Instacart purchase pattern analysis with association rules, sentiment-based dating matching algorithm.
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    CUNY Science Scholarship
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    Joint Entrance Examination (Mains)
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    NYU Graduate Scholarship
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    Ethereum Foundation Grant
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    ZK Grants Round