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Ansh Bhatnagar

data science · cognitive science · math-cs · uc san diego

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import ansh_bhatnagar as ansh
# load profile
ansh.about()
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{
  'name' :  'Ansh Bhatnagar',
  'role' :  'SDE Intern | Amazon Web Services',
  'org' :  'President @ DS3 · Founder @ AWS Student Builder Group · GDG on Campus @ UCSD',
  'hackathon' :  'Director @ DataHacks 2026 (~$100k raised, 450+ students)',
  'studying' :  'Data Science, Cognitive Science, Math-CS @ UCSD',
  'building' :  'things that hold up in production',
}

I like to move fast, take ownership, and build things that actually work — even if that means breaking a few things along the way. I'm not trying to fit into one lane: I want to understand how systems work end-to-end, from the infrastructure to the model to the real-world impact.

§ Organizations

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ansh.organizations()
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organizationroledescription
DataHacks 2026 Director 450+ students, raised ~$100k. Judges from Apple, Google, NVIDIA, YCombinator, Microsoft.
Data Science Student Society (DS3) President Scaled from 200 to 600+ members. Consulting, projects, workshops, and networking.
AWS Student Builder Group @ UC San Diego Founder & Lead Founded and led an AWS-backed organization focused on cloud computing education.
Google Developer Group (GDG) on Campus @ UC San Diego Founder & Lead Built UCSD's GDG chapter, bridging students with Google's developer ecosystem.

§ Experience

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# 8 roles
ansh.experience()
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companyrolelocation
Amazon Web Services SDE Intern Cupertino, CA
Amazon Web Services SDE Intern San Diego, CA
Hey Social Good Data Science Intern La Jolla, CA
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego Instructional Assistant La Jolla, CA
Bumper: Investing for Teens Brand Ambassador Remote
City of Fremont Summer Camp Lead-Counselor Fremont, CA
Simplify Campus Ambassador Remote
Chiba Lab Research Assistant La Jolla, CA

§ Projects

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# 16 published
ansh.projects()
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titlesummary
PlantDex ML-powered plant identification and classification app built for DS3
DS3 Website Main website for the Data Science Student Society at UC San Diego
DataHacks 2026 Official website for DataHacks 2026 — UCSD's data science hackathon
Smart AC System Cyber-physical smart air conditioning system with Arduino and live sensor data
Twitch Recommender Content recommendation system for Twitch streams using collaborative filtering
LukaBot Reinforcement Learning agent learning how to shoot a basketball
DataSurg A Visual Exploration of Korean Surgical Data
HeatMappers National Data Platform Fire-Ready Forests Data Challenge
AutoBots Using Reinforcement Learning for autonomous vehicles with Carla & DonkeySim
BikeWatching Interactive visualization of bike traffic and station activity across San Diego
Recipes-n-Ratings Do Higher-Calorie Recipes recieve Higher Ratings on food.com?
Personal Website & Home Foresting An online space to digitally introduce myself & write about my rare-plant hobby
Fantasy Basketball Assistant Software to assist with NBA Fantasy Sports
Criminal Justice AI AI model to to remove human bias from sentencing & improve COMPAS
SongSpace Prototype-version of Spotify
WebCrawler Created a Web Crawler prototype from scratch in Java

§ Coursework

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ansh.coursework()
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Coursework that changed how I think:
CSE 29 Systems Programming — memory, processes, how software actually runs
DSC 120 Signal Processing — transforms, filtering, structure from raw signals
DSC 190 IoT & Sensors — end-to-end systems, streaming pipelines, hardware-software
DSC 80 Pandas, ML practice (140A-B: models to deployment)
COGS 181 Deep Learning — neural nets, architectures, training
COGS 150 Large Language Models — transformers, prompting, real applications
MATH 173A Optimization — gradients, convexity, ML as optimization
MGT 175 Supply Chain & Operations — scale, tradeoffs, uncertainty

§ Contact

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ansh.contact()