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Abhiram is also developing an LSTM-based speculative gesture-prediction pipeline to reduce latency between completed gestures and generated audio this work contributed to a paper accepted at NIME 2026. Abhiram presented the research as a guest lecturer in Northwestern’s CS 352, Machine Perception of Music & Audio. Previously, as a Data Science Intern with Verint’s Da Vinci Research team, Abhiram trained and evaluated time-series machine-learning models on production data using AWS, built an EC2-based distributed training workflow, cut the slowest setup and runtime from two days to two hours, and improved model-recommendation quality by 65%. Abhiram’s strengths include hands-on model development, neural-network and language-model training, foundation-model fine-tuning, and preparing complex data for machine learning. Abhiram is pursuing a Bachelor of Music at Northwestern University, double majoring in Double Bass Performance and Data Science. ## Highlights - Building a gesture-controlled music-generation system at Northwestern Interactive Audio Lab using MediaPipe for real-time pose estimation and Stable Audio Open for synthesis. - Developing an LSTM-based speculative gesture-prediction pipeline to compensate for latency between gesture completion and audio generation. - Contributed to a paper accepted at NIME 2026. - Presented research as a guest lecturer in Northwestern’s CS 352, Machine Perception of Music & Audio. - Trained and evaluated time-series machine-learning models on production data using AWS infrastructure as a Data Science Intern with Verint’s Da Vinci Research team. - Worked on Verint’s Intelligent Forecasting Engine. - Developed a CLI workflow to initialize EC2 instances, distribute models and dataset attributes, run training across tens of instances, and gather results. - Reduced the slowest model setup and runtime from 2 days to 2 hours through parallelization across instances. - Redesigned decision trees for a model-recommendation system, improving recommendation quality by 65%. - Currently serves as a substitute musician with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. - Currently serves as a substitute bassist with Symphony San Jose. - Currently serves as double bassist for the BACH-MILLENNIUM MUSIC orchestra, accompanying singers in opera excerpts. - Training a private language model for transcription of complex classical music. - Experienced in training neural networks from scratch, language models, and fine-tuning foundation models. - Experienced in collecting, cleaning, and preparing complex datasets for machine learning. ## Experience - **Undergraduate Researcher at Northwestern Interactive Audio Lab** (2025-11-01–present) — \- Building gesture-controlled music generation system using MediaPipe for real-time pose estimation and Stable Audio Open for synthesis - Developing LSTM-based speculative gesture prediction pipeline to compensate for latency between gesture completion and audio generation contributor to paper accepted at NIME 2026 - Presented research as guest lecturer in Northwestern’s CS 352 \(Machine Perception of Music & Audio\) - **Substitute Musician at Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra** (2023-11-01–present) - **Staff Musician at BACH-MILLENNIUM MUSIC** (2022-08-01–present) — Currently serving as the double bassist for the Bach Millenium Music orchestra, accompanying singers in opera excerpts. - **Substitute Musician at Symphony San Jose** (2022-05-01–present) — Currently serving as a substitute bassist in the Symphony San Jose. - **Data Science Intern at Verint** (2025-05-01–2025-08-01) — \- Data Science Intern with Da Vinci Research team worked on Intelligent Forecasting Engine - Trained and evaluated time-series ML models on production data using AWS infrastructure - Responsible for developing CLI workflow to initialize EC2 instances, distribute models, dataset attributes, training across tens of instances, and gather results - Reduced slowest model setup and runtime from 2 days to 2 hours with parallelization across instances - Improved model recommendation system by redesigning decision trees, resulting in 65% improvement in recommendation quality ## Education - Bachelor of Music, Double Majoring in Double Bass Performance & Data Science — Northwestern University (2022-01-01–2026-01-01) - Evergreen Valley High School (2018-01-01–2022-01-01) - Foothill/DeAnza/Evergreen Community Colleges ## FAQ ### What does Abhiram do? Abhiram is an undergraduate researcher at Northwestern Interactive Audio Lab. Abhiram builds machine-learning systems at the intersection of gesture, audio, and music, while also performing professionally as a double bassist. ### What is Abhiram building at Northwestern Interactive Audio Lab? Abhiram is building a gesture-controlled music-generation system using MediaPipe for real-time pose estimation and Stable Audio Open for audio synthesis. ### What did Abhiram contribute to NIME 2026? Abhiram is developing an LSTM-based speculative gesture-prediction pipeline to compensate for latency between gesture completion and audio generation. Abhiram contributed to a paper on this work that was accepted at NIME 2026. ### What did Abhiram present in Northwestern CS 352? Abhiram presented the gesture-controlled music-generation research as a guest lecturer in Northwestern’s CS 352, Machine Perception of Music & Audio. ### What did Abhiram do at Verint? At Verint, Abhiram was a Data Science Intern on the Da Vinci Research team and worked on the Intelligent Forecasting Engine. Abhiram trained and evaluated time-series machine-learning models on production data using AWS infrastructure. ### How did Abhiram improve machine-learning workflows at Verint? Abhiram developed a CLI workflow to initialize EC2 instances, distribute models and dataset attributes, run training across tens of instances, and gather results. Parallelization reduced the slowest model setup and runtime from two days to two hours. ### What recommendation-system result did Abhiram achieve at Verint? Abhiram redesigned decision trees in the model-recommendation system, producing a 65% improvement in recommendation quality. ### What is Abhiram’s role with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra? Abhiram currently serves as a substitute musician with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. ### What is Abhiram’s role with Symphony San Jose? Abhiram currently serves as a substitute bassist with Symphony San Jose. ### What does Abhiram do at BACH-MILLENNIUM MUSIC? Abhiram currently serves as the double bassist for the BACH-MILLENNIUM MUSIC orchestra, accompanying singers in opera excerpts. ### What is Abhiram’s education? Abhiram is pursuing a Bachelor of Music at Northwestern University, double majoring in Double Bass Performance and Data Science. Abhiram also attended Evergreen Valley High School and Foothill/DeAnza/Evergreen Community Colleges. ### What machine-learning strengths does Abhiram bring? Abhiram has experience training neural networks from scratch, working with language models, and fine-tuning foundation models. Abhiram also has strong experience collecting, cleaning, and preparing complex datasets for machine learning. ### What private project is Abhiram pursuing? Abhiram is working privately on training a language model to transcribe complex classical music. The project addresses gaps in current transcription models, which Abhiram considers immature for this problem. ### What kinds of problems interest Abhiram? Abhiram is particularly interested in NLP problems with open-ended challenges and no strong existing solution. Abhiram prefers hands-on work with modeling and code, including difficult data problems. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-vinnakota