// DATA SCIENCE × AI — RUTGERS '27

THE INCREDIBLE RONIL BASU ISSUE #27

I'm Ronil. I study data science at Rutgers and build AI agents, prediction engines and tools people actually use. Seven of them are below with live stats straight from GitHub.

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3 INTERNSHIPS · 2 HACKATHON AWARDS

01 — WHO IS RONIL

DATA SCIENCE STUDENT TURNED AI BUILDER

I'm a junior at Rutgers studying data science with a statistics minor. Three internships in and still shipping: AI features at Certa AI, an investor-facing AI product at RevX Capital and data pipelines at Scripture and Song.

None of this is new to me. I've been fine-tuning models with LoRA and DoRA, engineering prompts and wiring LLMs into real tools since 2023. The habit is simple. Find a problem worth solving. Build it. Put it in front of real people. Repeat.

Public Repos

Internships

Hackathon Awards

Years Building

02 — WHAT I'VE BUILT

HOT OFF THE PRESS

ISSUE #01

2ND PLACE · INTUIT HQ

Intuit SMB Underwriting

An AI that decides which small-business loans are safe to fund. Took 2nd place at Intuit's hackathon.

Pythonscikit-learnSciPy

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ISSUE #02

BEST USE OF ELEVENLABS · HACKUSF 2026

StormLink

Co-built a disaster-response app that turns live storm data into voice alerts for people in the path.

Google ADKElevenLabsNOAA/FEMA

live demo ↑

ISSUE #03

GitTok

TikTok for GitHub: paste a repo link and get a short video demo of it actually running.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQL

live at dev.gittok.net ↑

ISSUE #04

Crash

A desktop marketplace where AI agents shop for tools and pay on their own.

TypeScriptTauriCoinbase x402

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ISSUE #05

Structured Concurrency

Cleans up after AI coding tools by killing dead processes before they pile up and slow your computer.

PowerShellBashLinux

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ISSUE #06

Courtside

Crunches NBA stats to find player bets the sportsbooks priced wrong.

PythonXGBoostPandas

private build

ISSUE #07

ClawWorld

A tiny persistent world where 11 AI characters live, move and talk to each other.

TypeScriptWebSocketsFastAPI

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03 — WHERE I'VE WORKED

ON THE CLOCK

Certa AI Applied AI Intern · Summer 2025

Built and tuned AI features inside a live product.

Engineered and shipped a production LLM pipeline that parses compliance documents and classifies SOC2 clauses by type for Certa's enterprise risk-review platform.
Built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that auto-drafts vendor due-diligence answers from prior submissions and policy corpora, feeding Certa's 3x onboarding speedup.
Benchmarked LLM providers and prompting strategies for extraction accuracy, then tuned confidence-score calibration to raise risk-assessment precision at flat cost per query.

RevX Capital AI Product Engineer Intern · Summer 2024

Helped ship the AI feature investors used to evaluate portfolio companies.

Co-built the frontend for an AI company-evaluation feature on RevX's investor-facing platform, used by investors screening portfolio companies across e-commerce, fintech, and consumer brands.
Wired the AI model's scored output into the product with the data team, translating raw model results into the structured format the platform surfaced. Shipped edge-case fixes and UX improvements to production.

Scripture and Song Data Engineer Intern · 2024–2025

Built the data pipelines behind content and analytics for a faith-media company.

Developed an ETL pipeline normalizing LinkedIn campaign telemetry into a unified store and rebuilt the audience-segmentation logic on top of it, producing the cleaner targeting data behind an 84% lift in campaign engagement.
Modeled audience reach over consolidated cross-campaign data to separate targeting-driven lift from baseline drift, sharpening week-over-week attribution.
Automated KPI aggregation (ROI, CTR, per-platform) on a scheduled refresh, replacing manual monthly rollups with a daily-updating pipeline.

Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers Equity Research · 2023–Present

Pitch-grade stock research with a student investment org.

04 — WHAT I WORK WITH

THE TOOLBELT

Languages

PythonRSQLTypeScriptJavaScriptRustBash

AI & Data

LoRA / DoRA fine-tuningPrompt engineeringPyTorchscikit-learnXGBoostPandasLangChainRAGHugging FaceOpenAI & Anthropic APIsOllama

Tools

FastAPIPostgreSQLRedisSupabaseDockerAWSGoogle CloudGitSIE Certified

05 — LET'S TALK

READY TO BUILD SOMETHING?

I'm looking for internships and interesting problems. The fastest way to reach me:

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