Poorvi Bellur

I care about solving real-world problems through technology, not just building things that are technically interesting. That's shown up in a published, safety-aware reinforcement learning framework for lunar rover navigation; a multi-modal ML pipeline I built during my internship at Samsung R&D; Archivex, a fully local, agentic RAG assistant that answers technical questions straight from PDF documents; IoT-based systems like BruxSense, a wearable bruxism monitor I presented at Maker Faire Hannover, and a predictive model for reducing human-elephant conflict in Tamil Nadu's Valparai region; and, on the culture side, a searchable database of Indian heritage monuments and VARA, an e-commerce platform for Channapatna's traditional wood-artisans. Machine learning and data engineering, including distributed hyperparameter optimization on Apache Spark, tie a lot of it together.

Outside of coursework, I'm Treasurer of Alaap, RVCE's music club, and play in our band Ameya — we've won multiple Battle of Bands competitions, including at BITS Goa, BMSCE, and the IIT-Bombay Bangalore elims. I also placed 2nd at the Craft n Code hackathon at IIIT Bhubaneswar.