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Nikhitha Khasnavis

Alumni

Virginia Tech

I am currently pursuing my Master’s degree in Computer Science at Virginia Tech and am excited to continue exploring research in machine learning and AI.

During my internship at the NSF COMPASS Center, I worked on Transformer-based genomic machine learning pipelines, preprocessing over 500K genomic sequences and fine-tuning BERT models (specifically HAVEN). This experience strengthened my skills in machine learning, NLP, large-scale data preprocessing, and model optimization while deepening my passion for research-driven problem solving!