Neha Desaraju

I'm currently an undergrad at UT Austin studying computer science with a focus on machine learning and its applications in everything from autonomous systems to large generative models.

My current interests are better retrieval, for agents and over large multimodal corpuses, and control of robotic and language agents. I've had software engineering stints at places like CitiBank. I'm drawn to complex systems — systems which are more than the sum of their parts — and building systems that can navigate such spaces.

I'm really just a curious person who likes to learn and build things. I'm also helping to cultivate a community of creative thinkers on campus with Texas Momentum and Texas Venture Group (coming soon!).

I also write — in a past life, I did comms and journalism (you can find some of my published pieces scattered about the internet as well as quotes from me in places like The New Republic and Reuters), and I wrote poems, fiction, and prose. Now, I mostly write about tech and the future.