arihan_iyer/

open to summer 2027 internships

Arihan Iyer

I build agentic systems and LLM-powered products, and I care most about the parts that don't show up in a notebook: integration, state, and reliability.

MS in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. Before that, I was the founding engineer at CreatED, shipping AI tools for students, mentors and researchers.

Based in

Ann Arbor, MI ·

Studying

MS CSE, Michigan '28

Focus

Agents · LLM systems

Currently

KV-cache quantization

01nowupdated oct 2026

Working on · CSE 585 course project

Speculative KV-cache quantization for agentic serving

An LLM's KV cache grows linearly with context, which gets painful in long, multi-turn agent sessions. Today's options either evict tokens for good or quantize everything uniformly and lose nuance. Our approach: when GPU memory pressure crosses a threshold, a cheap draft model runs several lookahead rollouts in parallel. Tokens those rollouts agree are important stay in high precision, and the rest of the context gets compressed to low-bit.

  • Starting my MS in CSE at Michigan.
  • Judging student projects at MHacks 2026.
  • Looking for Summer 2027 internships in AI/ML and software engineering. Grab 15 minutes with me.

02experience

Innovation Architect (Founding Engineer)

jun 2025 – jul 2026

CreatED · Hybrid, Mumbai

  • First technical hire. Led the architecture of the internal LMS and the automation behind student progress tracking and admin reporting, replacing manual bottlenecks.
  • Architected CEDAR AI, a research-writing platform used by 25+ researchers, and Sync, an agentic WhatsApp bot running scheduling across 100+ groups (Baileys + Google Calendar API).
  • Program Coordinator for CaseQuest with BITSOM Mumbai & IIM Mumbai: curriculum delivery and logistics for 100+ participants.
Next.jsPythonLLMsAgentic workflowsMERN

Software Development Engineer Intern

apr 2024 – feb 2025

LearnMigo · Hybrid, Mumbai / Bangalore

  • Developed customizable avatar chatbots that let teachers personalize student interactions, with personas that stayed consistent across varied content and teaching styles.
  • Built LessonAI, a generative-AI tool for drafting learning outcomes, instructional content and presentations.
Generative AIChatbots

03projects

Countersign

2026
IBM Track + Best Use of Jaclang · JacHacks 2026

An MCP server that lets an AI agent spend money, but only after proving it should. The agent's priced goal graph and every purchase are vetted by deterministic rules plus an LLM judge before Stripe moves a dollar.

JacMCPStripe APILLM-as-judge

Reasoning Canvas

2026

A structured argument canvas for high school researchers. Claims branch into sub-claims and attract supporting or opposing evidence (RAG over pgvector), and checkpoints capture how the argument evolves, all before anyone writes a word.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPISupabase pgvectorGemini

CEDAR AI

2025–26

A research assistant platform where students and mentors build papers section by section, with AI-assisted drafting, citation generation and formatting compliance checks. Used by 25+ researchers.

Next.jsNode.jsPythonSupabaseOpenAI

Sync

2025–26

An agentic WhatsApp bot that schedules mentor–student meetings from natural language: recurring meetings, time zones, role-based permissions and reminders, plus an admin dashboard. Runs across 100+ groups.

BaileysFastAPISupabaseGoogle Calendar API

TAQSHA Studios × The Times of India

2026
Front page of The Economic Times

Co-launched a partnership between CreatED and The Times of India: designed 4 project-based learning tracks and built the platform underneath them.

Next.jsPythonLLMsVercelRender

E-bike Recommendation Chatbot

2025

A recommendation chatbot for Joy E-Bike (India's first listed EV company) using weighted scoring and collaborative filtering, with an admin panel that turns raw chats into KPIs like preference trends and lead conversion.

ReactNode.jsPythonspaCyD3.js

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04recognition

  • Winner, IBM Track + Best Use of Jaclang, JacHacks 2026 For Countersign. The only team out of 50 to win two tracks.
  • Judge, MHacks 2026 Selected to evaluate student hackathon projects at the University of Michigan.
  • Finalist, Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition ↗ 2026 CreatED was one of seven finalists in the 17th annual competition.
  • 'Star Student' Award, IT Department, Mumbai University Department's top-performing student across academics, technical work and leadership.
  • Finalist, Smart India Hackathon 2022 Led a team to the grand finale with a document-submission portal for UGC/AICTE approvals.

05education

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2026 – 2028 MS, Computer Science & Engineering · Advanced Scalable Systems, NLP, Human-AI Interaction
  • Mumbai University 2021 – 2025 B.E., Information Technology (Honours in AI & ML) · GPA 3.90/4

06off the clock

I'm not always shipping. Here's what I'm doing when I'm not.

cooking
the thing I love most
staying active
rock climbing, the gym
writing
novels
out & about
café hopping
gaming
FPS
on loop
pop music, anime
next up
travel. Haven't started yet, but it's queued.

07contact

Building something with agents or LLMs? I'd love to hear about it: imarihan@umich.edu