Mechanical Engineering student at IIT Delhi with research experience. Published researcher with expertise in manufacturing processes, quality improvement, and data analysis.

Aviral Rastogi

Mechanical Engineering student at IIT Delhi with research experience. Published researcher with expertise in manufacturing processes, quality improvement, and data analysis.

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Mechanical Engineering student at IIT Delhi with research experience. Published researcher with expertise in manufacturing processes, quality improvement, and data analysis.

Language

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Work Experience

Junior Research Fellow at Centre of Excellence on Personal Body Armour, IIT Delhi
October 1, 2025 - Present
Project allotted involves developing a probabilistic model to determine V50 ballistic limit of UHMWPE composite panel. Researching on involving deep learning concepts like GANs and CNNs to predict and simulate ballistic test results data.
AI Model Evaluator at Mercor (Freelance)
January 1, 2026 - Present
Creating high-quality prompts related to live cricket matches based on match analysis, player statistics and expert ideas; evaluating responses of different AI models with respect to rubric-based criteria and selecting the best model.
AI Agent Annotator at Deccan AI (Freelance)
January 1, 2026 - Present
Evaluating Gemini AI model’s response and methodology for performing day-to-day tasks as a digital personal assistant; suggesting potential improvements and criticisms of the AI agent using the backend code used by the Gemini AI agent.
Industrial Engineer – Operations at Trident Group Limited, Punjab
August 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
In-charge of production unit for the luxury bath linen division, leading a team of 40+ workers; performed studies on the production line to reduce defects and bring down cost per kilo product.
Intern at Tata Power - DDL, Delhi
May 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024
Improving quality and productivity in Transformer Workshop; performed Pareto analysis to identify major reasons of transformer failure and calculated the failure percentage over 5 years; suggested initiatives to reduce failure and reported ~3% drop in failure over 2 weeks.
Research Project at Independent Research Project
July 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025
Development of a composite material system for blast mitigation capable of sustaining 35-100 g TNT blasts; fabricated and tested materials; performed dynamic explicit simulation of a TNT blast to validate results using ABAQUS CAE.
Research Project at Independent Research Project
September 1, 2024 - Present
Multi-arm bandit Problem in Reinforcement Learning: Generated a 10-armed bandit problem, learned reward distributions using greedy selection; applied epsilon-greedy methods to improve learning; implemented in Python.
Research Project at Independent Research Project
October 1, 2024 - Present
Backward Induction Strategies for Game Trees: Used NetworkX in Python to compute a B-I strategy for the game tree and output the optimal way to play; produced generic code to draw game trees with node labels and payoff vectors.
Research Project at Independent Research Project
March 1, 2024 - Present
Stock Performance Prediction: Monte Carlo simulation on historical stock data to find best performing portfolio using Markowitz optimization; solved the Markowitz formulation and compared it with Monte Carlo solution.
Research Project at Independent Research Project
January 1, 2024 - February 1, 2024
Schizophrenia Treatment Progression Analysis: Simulated patient progression through Markov chain; conducted Monte Carlo simulations to estimate mean and standard deviation of total costs over 5 years.

Education

Production & Industrial Engineering at IIT Delhi
November 29, 2021 - August 2, 2025

Qualifications

Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)
January 1, 2023 - April 24, 2026
HULT Prize 2023: 2nd runner-up (On-campus round)
January 1, 2023 - April 24, 2026

Industry Experience

Manufacturing, Education, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Government