Devraj Raghuvanshi

I'm Devraj Raghuvanshi.
A Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

I'm currently based in Providence, pursuing a Master's in Data Science @Brown. Last fall, I worked as a Data Science Intern at a startup, helping build the recommendation engine for PerformaMatch. Before transitioning into applied work, I spent 3 years doing ML research in natural language processing and multimodal analysis at the University of Groningen, Netherlands and IIT Indore, India.

Selected Projects

Spatially

This was a group project completed as the final project for Harvard's AC215 (AIOps) course. We built Spatially, an AI-powered tool that helps make sense of complex zoning regulations and urban development data by letting users ask questions directly and see answers grounded in official documents like zoning ordinances, maps, census data, and real development plans. The system pulls together messy, large-scale public data and uses a RAG-based setup to surface relevant information without hallucinating.

Human Activity Recognition

This project explored human activity recognition from wearable accelerometer data, with an emphasis on building models that generalize across individuals without requiring user-specific retraining. A structured, end-to-end machine learning pipeline was created, covering data preprocessing, windowing, feature engineering, model training & evaluation. Several machine learning models were implemented and systematically compared using evaluation strategies designed to handle user variability and class imbalance.

Research

Integrating Feedback Loss from Bi-modal Sarcasm Detector for Sarcastic Speech Synthesis →

Zhu Li, Yuqing Zhang, Xiyuan Gao, Devraj Raghuvanshi, Nagendra Kumar, Shekhar Nayak, Matt Coler

Speech Synthesis Workshop - Interspeech 2025

A Multimodal-Multitask Framework with Cross-Modal Relation and Hierarchical Interactive Attention for Semantic Comprehension →

Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Devraj Raghuvanshi, Umang Jain, Shubhi Bansal, Nagendra Kumar

Information Fusion

Intra-modal Relation and Emotional Incongruity Learning using Graph Attention Networks for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection →

Devraj Raghuvanshi, Xiyuan Gao, Zhu Li, Shubhi Bansal, Matt Coler, Nagendra Kumar, Shekhar Nayak

ICASSP 2025

Hierarchical Attention-enhanced Contextual CapsuleNet for Multilingual Hope Speech Detection →

Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Devraj Raghuvanshi, Harshit Pachar, Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw, Nagendra Kumar

Expert Systems with Applications

KisanQRS: A Deep Learning-based Automated Query-Response System for Agricultural Decision-Making →

Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Devraj Raghuvanshi, Nagendra Kumar

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Background

Experience

PerformaMatch

Data Science Intern

Forest Friends Innovation Studio

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Developed a bidirectional recommendation system to match performing artists with casting roles, using learning-to-rank models in a deployable ML pipeline.

Carney Institute

Research Assistant

Carney Institute for Brain Science

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

Explored pupillometry as a non-invasive biomarker of cognition by training ML models on data from visuomotor adaptation and working memory tasks.

University of Groningen

Research Intern

University of Groningen

May 2023 - Jul 2024

Conducted research in multimodal machine learning. Published papers on speech synthesis and sarcasm detection in top-tier conferences.

IIT Indore

Research Intern

Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Aug 2022 - Oct 2023

Worked on deep learning projects in NLP and sentiment analysis. Contributed to multiple research publications in top-tier journals.

Education

Brown University

Master of Science, Data Science

Brown University

Aug 2024 - May 2026 | GPA: 4.00/4.00

Advanced coursework in machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling, fairness, and computational methods for data science.

Harvard University

Cross-Registration, Data Science

Harvard University

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 | GPA: 4.00/4.00

Cross-registered for AC215: Advanced Practical Data Science (AIOps).

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