Amit Namburi

Graduate Student Researcher • McAuley Lab @ UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

About

I’m Amit Namburi, a BS/MS Computer Science student at UC San Diego passionate about research in Multimodal LLMs and Recommender Systems. My work spans fine-tuning LLMs, audio-based ML, and multimodal AI, and I’m pursuing my MS to further deepen my expertise.

Country

United States

City

San Diego

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

C (Programming Language), Java, Scikit-Learn, Communication, Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Automotive, Mentoring

Experience

Graduate Student Researcher • McAuley Lab

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

San Diego, CA

• Research Topics: Multimodal AI, Generative Recommendation Systems, Audio × LLMs • Lab: McAuley Lab

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

NomadicML

2026-1 - 2026-3 · 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

• Building foundational visual AI systems for autonomous and embodied agents

Teaching Assistant | TA

UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)

2025-3 - 2025-12 · 10 mos

San Diego, CA

• TA for CSE 158/258: Recommender Systems and Web Mining (Fall 2025) • TA for CSE 153/253: Machine Learning for Music (Spring 2025) • Professor: Julian McAuley

Instructional Assistant | Tutor

UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)

2023-4 - 2025-3 · 2 yrs

San Diego, California, United States

• Tutor for CSE 100: Advanced Data Structures • Tutor for CSE 12: Basic Data Structures and Object-Oriented Design • Tutor for CSE 11: Intro to Programming and Computational Problem-Solving • Professors: Paul Cao, Niema Moshiri, Debashis Sahoo

Software Engineer Intern

Apple

2025-6 - 2025-9 · 4 mos

San Diego, California, United States

 CoreOS • Core Platform • iContest Finalist: Selected top 10 of ~750 interns, pitched ideas to multiple VPs

Founding Engineer

Stealth Startup

2025-1 - 2025-6 · 6 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built a secure, scalable platform for business data using Firebase, Express, React, and Node.js. • Designed NoSQL schemas and APIs for user and business workflows. • Implemented role-based access with IAM for secure cloud integration.

Computational Researcher • FAIR Data Informatics Lab

UC San Diego Health

2023-3 - 2025-3 · 2 yrs 1 mo

San Diego, California, United States

• Research Project: Dashboards to reduce curator hours for the NIH RRID initiative • Lab: FAIR Data Informatics (FDI) Lab, UC San Diego • Mentor: Dr. Anita Bandrowski

Vice President

Computer Science & Engineering Society at UC San Diego

2022-4 - 2023-6 · 1 yr 3 mos

San Diego, California, United States

Machine Learning Intern

IPMD, Inc.

2022-6 - 2022-9 · 4 mos

Berkeley, California, United States

• Built and shipped web features using React.js and Node.js. • Designed and implemented scalable APIs to support secure data access.

Education

UC San Diego

Computer Science

2025-3 - 2026-6 · 1 yr 4 mos

Advisor: Julian McAuley

UC San Diego

Computer Science

2021-9 - 2025-3 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Relevant Coursework: - Programming and Computational Problem-Solving - Data Structures and Object-Oriented Design - Software Tools and Techniques Laboratory - Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics for Algorithms and Systems - Computer Organization and Systems Programming - Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Theory of Computability - Software Engineering Principles - Linear Algebra - Statistical Methods - Calculus and Analytic Geometry for Science and Engineering - Computer Vision - Recommender Systems and Web Mining - Operating Systems - Design Techniques for Digital Systems - Programming Languages - Cryptography - Statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Machine Learning: Learning Algorithms