Navneet Raju
Graduate Data Science Student • USC Viterbi School of Engineering

I build and ship ML systems that work at scale—across industry, research, and open source. Currently finishing my MS in Data Science at USC, I’ve deployed production NLP and document AI at Intuit (AutoML pipelines, BERT, PySpark, Kubeflow, Sagemaker) powering TurboTax, QuickBooks, and ProSeries. My work has replaced manual processes, delivered major cost savings, and scaled to millions of users.
Research & Projects:
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SwarmGuard: SOTA multimodal misinformation detection (GNN, vision, BERT)
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Between Silence and Speech: New evaluation and mitigation framework for political bias in LLMs
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ViStA: Open video streaming & analytics benchmark (ISPASS)
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VetaQL: Graph-based semantic video querying & recsys (ASIANCON)
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U-Net segmentation for remote sensing (IGARSS, ISRO collab)
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Shipped open-source projects: recsys, sentiment analysis, and real-time flight DBs (Spark/Kafka/MySQL/Elastic)
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Published in IGARSS, ISPASS, and ASIANCON.
news
Jun 01, 2025 | Elected President of GRIDS (Graduates Rising in Data Science) at USC for the 2025-2026 academic year. Excited to lead the organization and contribute to the data science community at USC. |
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Mar 28, 2025 | Organized and lead a successful LLM Prompting Workshop as part of the GRIDS USC Workshop Series. |
Jan 27, 2025 | Promoted to Vice President of Technology @ GRIDS (Graudates Rising in Information and Data Science) ! |
Nov 17, 2024 | Runners-Up at #HackSC 2024 in the Athletes Track! |
Sep 20, 2024 | Joined GRIDS (Graudates Rising in Information and Data Science) at the University of Southern California as an Executive Board Member for the Tech Team. |