CS + Statistics @ UC Davis · SF Bay Area
Atin Kumar Singh.
Junior at UC Davis working on ML research. I work on world-action model architectures for robotics and embodied AI at the DARE Lab, co-instruct the Hugging Face Context Course, and build products on the side.
Research
Ongoing
Independent Research
Mar 2026 – Present
Reproducing and extending Moonshot AI's Attention Residuals: 15-17% perplexity gains over baseline, a vision-language extension, and a modality-dependent depth-utilization finding. TMLR submission in preparation.
Ongoing
UC Davis · Prof. Junshan Zhang, Dechen Gao
Working on world-action models for robotics and embodied AI: replicating flow-matching policy pipelines and preparing VR-teleoperation data collection.
Prior
RUBINET Lab
UC Davis
NLP research for automated mental health condition detection: built the preprocessing/experiment pipeline and CUDA-accelerated feature kernels (~9x throughput).
Experience
May 2025 – Present
Data Pigeon
Founding Engineer
AI platform for a fleet of 1,000+ commercial EV chargers. Built and trained the failure-prediction models (BiLSTM, XGBoost) over live telemetry, the data layer that feeds them, and a real-time voice support agent with hybrid retrieval. ElevX accelerator at UC Davis; 2nd place and $5,000 at Sacramento Kings Capitalize.
Jan 2025 – Present
UC Davis IET
Application Developer
Enterprise HR platform (Java/Spring, 2.5K+ users). Independently migrated 60+ pages to a new UI framework, plus import-parsing and document-routing fixes, all shipped through PRs and code review.
Apr – Jul 2026
Women's World Banking
Software Engineer Intern
Built course pages for the digital training platform of a global nonprofit serving 30M+ women clients across 32 countries.
Aug 2021 – Jun 2023
FinTech Industrial
Software Engineer
Financial data ingestion pipelines in Python and Node with Airflow, plus schema design and query tuning in MongoDB.
Apr 2021 – Jun 2024
Freelance
Software Developer
Sold Discord bots and Minecraft plugins to clients from age 14, 13 orders at 5/5 on Fiverr; public plugins reached 17K+ downloads on SpigotMC.
Programs & Affiliations
YC Startup School 2026
Selected from 30,000+ applicants
Big Bang! 2026
UC Davis · Energy + Sustainability Sector Award · $10,000 (Data Pigeon)
ElevX
Startup accelerator (with Data Pigeon)
PLASMA
UC Davis innovation grant · $5,000 (Data Pigeon)
Daytona Startup Grid
Startup program
CodeLab
UC Davis · Board member
Projects
Hugging Face Context Course
Co-authored and co-instructed Hugging Face's Context Course, a hands-on course on context engineering for code agents.
Hugging Face Open Source
Contributed to other Hugging Face repositories, including huggingface/course and huggingface/notebooks.
AttnRes VLM
Extended Moonshot AI's AttnRes architecture from language models to a vision-language model and reproduced the original performance gains.
Reddit Niche Classification Dataset
Open dataset of 13,061 annotated Reddit posts with engineered metadata features for lightweight text-classification models, published on the HuggingFace Hub alongside a companion Keras classifier.
NovaNotes
AI study companion built with React.
Rizitanz
Grew a TikTok channel past a million views by A/B-testing video formats — game footage, narration speed, presenter format.
Athena AI
Academic assistant built on a RAG pipeline with multi-source retrieval. Finalist at CalHacks AI 2025.
Minecraft Plugins
Custom Minecraft plugins and Discord bots, built and sold on Fiverr.
Awards
1st Place
Snowflake Hackathon
Data infrastructure challenge
1st Place
Google Maps Hackathon
Location intelligence track
1st Place
AgentHacks
Autonomous agent systems
2nd Place · $5,000
Sacramento Kings Capitalize
Sports tech competition
Finalist at CalHacks AI 2025
CalHacks
UC Berkeley
$53,000 Merit Scholarship
UC Davis Provost Award
Merit scholarship for out-of-state incoming students
Education
University of California, Davis
Double Major: B.S. Computer Science + B.S. Statistics (ML Track)
Minor in Technology Management
Junior · GPA 3.7 · SF Bay Area
Stack
CUDA / C++
GPU kernels & optimization
PyTorch
training & fine-tuning
Python
research tooling & pipelines
React / Next.js
product front-ends
HuggingFace
datasets, models & OSS
RL Systems
robotics & embodied AI
Contact
Get in touch.
Open to research roles, internships, and collaborations. Based in Davis and the SF Bay Area.