CS + Statistics @ UC Davis · SF Bay Area
Atin Kumar Singh.
Sophomore 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
DARE Lab
UC Davis · Prof. Junshan Zhang, Dechen Gao
Working on world-action model architectures for robotics and embodied AI.
Prior
RUBINET Lab
UC Davis
NLP research for automated mental health condition detection. Literature reviews, methodology implementation, and reproducing published results.
Experience
2024 – Present
Data Pigeon
Founding Engineer
EV charging AI platform integrated with a network of 1,000+ commercial chargers. Built smart routing, demand prediction, and real-time analytics infrastructure. Went through ElevX accelerator at UC Davis. Won 2nd place and $5,000 at Sacramento Kings Capitalize.
2024
MyEdMaster
ML Engineering
Built ML models integrated into a clinician-facing reporting workflow, generating automated summaries from model predictions for review.
2024 – Present
UC Davis IET
Software Engineering Contributor
Work on the HR platform serving 1,300+ UC Davis faculty.
2023 – 2024
FinTech Industrial
Data Engineering
Built data pipelines and designed schemas for financial data processing.
Programs & Affiliations
Daytona Startup Grid
Startup program
ElevX
UC Davis accelerator
PLASMA
UC Davis
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
Sophomore · GPA 3.65 · 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.