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How do you know a result is real? Build it end to end. Then measure it honestly.

Most of my work circles that one question.

I’m a Master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University, and most of my work circles one question: how do you know a result is real. That applies whether the thing being measured is a model I trained or an agent about to write to someone’s database.

I’ve built each layer at least once: a 394M-parameter language model pretrained from scratch (corpus, tokenizer, architecture, training loop), fine-tuning and quantization, retrieval, agents with tool use, constraint solvers, and the FastAPI, Docker, AWS, and Next.js work needed to put any of it in front of users.

That 394M model, sqlpup, now has an official entry on the BIRD leaderboard, and AgentRelBench, my work on agent reliability, was accepted as a poster at a NeurIPS 2026 workshop. In both, the headline finding went against what I was hoping for. Right now I’m the Founding AI Engineer Intern at Interlock Systems (Harvard Innovation Labs), building agent automation and verification over customers’ production ERP systems. Before Boston, I earned my CS degree at BITS Pilani’s Dubai campus.

Shiven Khurdi
Boston, MAAI Engineer

Profile

Name
Shiven Khurdi
Role
Founding AI Engineer Intern @ Interlock Systems · Harvard Innovation Labs
Location
Boston, MA · Open to relocate
Education
M.S. Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University / B.E. Computer Science, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus
Focus
LLM systems, agents, evaluation, ML engineering
Email
shiven.khurdi@gmail.com
Phone
+1 617 259 6437

Affiliations

  • Interlock Systems
    Interlock Systems · Founding AI Engineer Intern
  • Northeastern University
    Northeastern University · M.S. AI
  • BITS Pilani, Dubai
    BITS Pilani, Dubai · B.E. CS
  • ODeX Global
    ODeX Global · Web Dev Intern
  • Tendercare FZE
    Tendercare FZE · Engineer Intern

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