Arav Bhardwaj
CTO, prev. ML research at Dartmouth, ex-CMU.
Now
Based out of SF
Leading technical development at Basics
Exploring post-training for small models that learn how you work
Learning cardistry
Experience
- BasicsCTO at a TQ Ventures–backed startup. Building AI-powered workforce training for trades workers.
- Carnegie MellonDouble major in AI and Statistics & Machine Learning. Left to build things the classroom couldn't keep pace with.
- Karini AIBuilt MCP Registry™ and Microsoft Teams AI integrations for enterprise clients. Worked on multi-agent LangGraph systems with Ragas evaluation.
- Dartmouth-HitchcockML research in computational pathology. Designed and trained my own Wasserstein GAN architecture to generate synthetic colorectal tissue images, scaling training to terabyte-scale whole-slide data on Slurm HPC clusters.