Arnav Agrawal

SDE Intern @ Amazon | Applied Math @ USC

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

I'm Arnav Agrawal, a junior at USC pursuing a B.S. + M.S. in Applied Mathematics. I enjoy thinking deeply about complex problems, using computational methods to solve them, and working in environments that challenge me. I'm always excited to collaborate with driven individuals across different fields. Please feel free to reach out at [email protected]!

Experience

  • Researcher @ The AI, Language, Learning, Generalization, and Robustness (ALLeGRo) Lab at USC Viterbi School of Engineering
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    Pre-training memorization dynamics in LLMs, focusing on duplication-driven memorization and retention, under Professor Robin Jia and PhD student Ameya Godbole.

  • Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Summer 2026 | Cloud Authorization Team

  • Teaching Assistant at University of Southern California
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    TAC 216 (Applied Python), class size ~200 students. Fundamental concepts in Machine Learning, Object Oriented Design, and Data Visualization.

  • Researcher @ HUMANS Lab at USC Viterbi School of Engineering
    Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 · 9 mos

    Alignment Engineering of Large Language Models, under Professor Emilio Ferrara

  • Machine Learning Engineering Intern at Thurro
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    Built alpha Text2SQL application, fine-tuned open source models (Ministral 8B, GPT-4.1 nano) for OCR accuracy improvement, engineered automated evaluation framework, and developed novel bounding box algorithms using Surya OCR for table extraction.