Aishwarya 'Ash' Srivastava
cs @ asu
About me
I build AI infrastructure and tools for researchers and developers. My research interests span LLM alignment and efficient inference, especially how agents use evidence, respond to human feedback, and behave reliably.
Currently
- dissecting deceptive agent traces
- building around inference systems
- teaching others about AI
focus
- infra, full stack, systems
- agents, inference, alignment
- frontier labs, dev tools, ai enterprise
Roadmap
product studio inc.
2026
engineering systems for agent memory, cognition, and personalization
arc lab
2026
working on latent space reasoning in llm architectures
zipy
2026
playing with small expert models for efficient domain tasks
nexhacks
2026
first east coast winter and CMU visit; built an agentic scraper and shipped it on site
wandering
2025
long layover in Boston, wandered MIT; huge motivation jolt that pushed me harder
calhacks
2025
first SF hack; built an agentic workflow analytics tool and came home with a bigger fire
kaelum
2025
implemented RL + LLM tree ideas from papers; learned how far careful engineering goes
ais workshops
2025
taught and wrote the LLM/RLHF-from-scratch notebooks; best way I learned production AI
zoomhacks
2025
won 1st place; built 2d game w unity
google hackathon
2025
won 2nd place; built rag based finetuning ml pipeline
rise lab
2025
joined rise lab HCI group; building transformer/vae architectures for trajectory prediction with human modeling
soda platform
2025
ran internal infra/platform work—bots, docs, deploys—which pushed me into deeper SWE and devtools
devhacks hackathon
2025
won 1st place; built social engineering ai voice agent
decision theater
2025
part-time SWE at an ASU research unit, building tools for data analysts
SoDA
2025
joined software developers association focusing on tech
intel hackathon
2025
won with a lidar anomaly project; first time shipping AI with strict hardware limits
devhacks'24
2024
built agentic fashion recommendation system; got more deep into vision agents
scalePU hackathon
2025
shipped real time multimodal agents for zoom tutoring sessions
HackSoDA
2024
shipped agentic scraper for student college assistance
sunhacks'24
2024
shipped TUI coding agent; got into multi-task planning agents
asu move
2024
new country, found footing, joined AIS and started chasing AI papers daily
job hunt lull
2024
sent a ton of on-campus apps, got crickets; doubled down on projects and papers instead
codeday
2024
won a national hack; learned to navigate messy orgs while still shipping
ctrl hacks
2023
won an international hack with a student copilot; first real taste of team shipping
happyhacks
2023
won another international hack, built a 24/7 live video chat platform
CSYA & Hack United
2023
built Discord, Notion, and GCP integrations plus headless CMS sites for student orgs; dug deep into tooling
freelance & mobile
2023
built apps for a friend’s company; learned to ship fast for real users
school friction
2022
didn’t fit the local grind; coding after class taught me to self-direct
techxcelerate
2022
won my first international hack; realized I liked building in public
full stack grind
2021
daily MERN practice, shipping small sites, and getting hooked on the craft
game addiction break
2021
dropped games after a family crisis; swapped hours into code and routines
pandemic pivot
2020
first laptop for classes; fell into code instead of games and never really left
curious kid
childhood
quiet, often lost, but always trying to figure out how things worked