/now
What I'm focused on right now. Part of the /now page movement. Updated when things meaningfully change. Last updated: 2026-07-04.
School
- Starting CMU MS-AIE (ECE department) Fall 2026 — expected graduation December 15, 2027.
- Prepping for 11-667 — LLM Systems in the fall lineup. Reading through 'Efficient Deep Learning' and the ORCA / vLLM papers.
Building
- Dyx — the AI voicemail line at voicemail.kaushik.cv. Recent lift: sub-700ms end-to-end latency (Deepgram nova-3 → Groq Llama 3.3 → Cartesia sonic-3).
- CipherStack — self-hosted credential vault with LRU key rotation and 60s cooldown on 429s. Live at cipherstack.kaushik.cv, vending keys to every side project.
- This site — kaushik.cv itself. Continuous adversarial audits + fixes on a loop; three interactive playgrounds and counting.
Writing
- 12 technical essays on /blog covering RAG at SAP scale, HNSW vs IVF-PQ, GDPR-compliant retrieval, GPU multimedia indexing, and the ICCIES 2025 swarm paper.
- Just shipped: 60 Cycles — what a four-day adversarial ship-loop actually converged on.
Looking for
- Summer 2027 AI/ML internships — RAG, inference infra, or applied research. Reach out at [email protected].
- Conversations with folks working on production LLM systems — happy to swap notes.
Nowadays I'm using these tools. Older writing on /blog.