Parth Kocheta

Parth Kocheta

CS student, AI engineer, and founder

San Francisco, CA

I'm a CS student at UMD interested in Applied AI, education, and startups. Currently on a gap semester in SF. I've been building ML projects since 8th grade and love 0 to 1 product research, design, and engineering. I'm passionate about project-based and exploratory education.

Experience

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Lucid Academy

Founder

Mar 2024 – Present
SF

Launched an AI education program helping high school students build portfolio-ready AI research. We've mentored 150+ students, hosted 1:1s with PhDs + ISEF winners, and built custom tools to automate feedback and curriculum.

lucid-education.com
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Planted Solar

Incoming AI Intern

Summer 2025
Oakland, CA

Working on AI optimization for high-density solar plant design. Company is backed by Breakthrough Energy + Khosla Ventures.

plantedsolar.com
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Sanofi

2x ML Intern

Jun 2022 – Aug 2023
Cambridge, MA

Improved Dice score by 34% across 3,000+ mice MRIs by implementing a Residual Attention U-Net. Worked with senior scientists to build a system for automating the processing of optical imaging data from animal studies (saving them 10 hrs/week of manual Excel work). Automated data merging, cleaning, and analysis using Numpy, Pandas, and Matplotlib and built an easy-to-use front-end with Streamlit.

sanofi.com
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CMU AirLab

Research Intern

Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
Remote

Built deep learning–based visual-inertial odometry for drones using CNN+LSTM with Kalman filter fusion.

theairlab.org

Technical Projects

Lucid Academy

Lucid Academy

Mar 2024 - Present

AI education platform for high school students with real-time feedback on projects. 150+ students, 95% completion rate.

LLMEducationBrowser Automation+1
SponsorFind

SponsorFind

2024 - Present

ML pipeline tracking 3K+ brands across 7K YouTube creators with 92% extraction accuracy.

LLMData PipelineAnalytics+1
DeepVO

DeepVO

2022

CNN+LSTM network for visual odometry that outperforms traditional methods by 40% in dynamic environments.

Computer VisionDeep LearningRobotics+2
Algorithmic Trading

Algorithmic Trading

2021 - Present

LSTM+Attention models for crypto market prediction with 65% directional accuracy.

LSTMAttentionTransformers+2
IdentifAI

IdentifAI

2019

Computer vision system to help visually-impaired users navigate the world using object recognition.

Computer VisionAndroidAccessibility+2
FTC Robotics

FTC Robotics

2019-2020

Led computer vision and autonomous navigation for team ranked top 5 globally with 36-1 record.

RoboticsComputer VisionPID Control+1

Education

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University of Maryland, College Park

BS in Computer Science

Expected 2027

Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship. Relevant coursework includes Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Discrete Data Structures, Linear Algebra, Computer Systems, Deep Learning, Applied Probability and Statistics, and Software Engineering.

What else am I into

Fitness

Currently mostly doing MMA/BJJ training and running. Previously did track and weightlifting.

Music

Made my first internet dollar in 8th grade selling type beats online. 5k+ YouTube subscribers, 1.2M+ plays. Cloud rap / alt RnB. Spotify

Investing / Alternative Assets

Previously traded options, ran crypto bots, and created ML betting algorithms for sports betting.

Blog

Coming Soon