CS + Statistics @ UC Davis · SF Bay Area
Atin Kumar Singh.
Junior at UC Davis. World-action models for robotics at the DARE Lab, co-author of the Hugging Face Context Course, founding engineer at Data Pigeon.
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; 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.
Reddit Niche Classification Dataset
13,061 annotated Reddit posts with engineered metadata features, plus a lightweight Keras classifier and a fine-tuned DistilBERT model (0.84 F1).
Rizitanz
Automated content pipeline (script generation, TTS, Whisper alignment, rendering, multi-platform uploads) that runs itself, tuned with an engagement-based feedback loop.
Athena AI
RAG-driven codegen that generates Manim animations from natural language, with an automated validate-and-repair loop.
NovaNotes
Study platform built with React.
Minecraft Plugins
Public Java plugins for the SpigotMC ecosystem, maintained across four years with versioned releases.
Awards
1st Place
Snowflake Startup Sprint
AI voice agent for EV charger support and predictive maintenance
1st Place
Google Maps Platform Hackathon
Community incident reporting product
1st Place
AgentHacks 2025
Traffic prediction platform
2nd Place · $5,000
Sacramento Kings Capitalize
Sports tech competition
Energy + Sustainability Sector Award · $10,000
Big Bang! 2026
UC Davis · Data Pigeon
Finalist at CalHacks AI 2025
CalHacks
UC Berkeley
$53,000 Merit Scholarship
UC Davis Provost Award
Competitive merit scholarship for high-achieving out-of-state incoming students
Service
Reviewer
ECCV 2026 workshops
LIMIT, WiCV, MDA
Reviewer
EMNLP 2026
REALM
Judge
HackDavis 2026
top-50 hackathon globally, 900+ participants
Education
University of California, Davis
Double Major: B.S. Computer Science + B.S. Statistics (ML Track)
Junior · GPA 3.7 · SF Bay Area
Stack
LLM Agents
MCP, RAG, agent harnesses, tool calling
PyTorch
training & fine-tuning
CUDA / C++
GPU kernels & optimization
Hugging Face
datasets, models & OSS
World Models & Robotics
embodied AI, flow-matching policies
Backend Systems
Python / Node services, job orchestration, Postgres / Mongo
React / Next.js
product front-ends
Eval & Data Pipelines
LLM evals, weak supervision, Airflow
Contact
Get in touch.
Open to research roles, internships, and collaborations. Based in Davis and the SF Bay Area.