Applied AI Engineer

Prashant Soni

I build production-grade AI systems using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal pipelines for healthcare and finance.

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About

Applied AI engineer focused on deploying production-grade AI systems. Experienced in building and shipping LLM, RAG, and multimodal ML pipelines used by researchers in healthcare and finance. Founder of OrphaNova and developer of OrphanAtlas, a rare-disease research platform used by 500+ researchers.

Experience

Founder & Lead Developer, OrphaNova

Nov 2025 - Present

  • Founded an applied generative AI platform for rare-disease healthcare research.
  • Built cloud-based ML pipelines on AWS and GCP with scalable inference and secure data handling.
  • Designed LLM architectures using RAG, vector databases, and domain-specific prompt orchestration for evidence extraction.

Research Assistant, Yeshiva University

Nov 2024 - Dec 2025

  • Built and optimized deep learning approaches for Cardiomegaly detection, achieving 85.75% accuracy on 2k+ labeled X-rays.
  • Developed OrphanAtlas.net with GPT-based LLMs, RAG pipelines, embeddings, and interactive maps.
  • Awarded Outstanding R&D Award at the Yeshiva University Symposium for AI integration in digital healthcare.

Projects

Agents4Science

Agent-based generative AI workflows for literature mining, evidence extraction, and hypothesis generation in rare diseases.

LLMs · RAG · Biomedical NLP

Multimodal Stock Price Predictor

Combined LSTM time-series modeling with FinBERT sentiment for improved market prediction and risk-adjusted insights.

TensorFlow · LSTM · FinBERT

Kaggle ConnectX RL Agent

Built RL agents with DQN, MCTS, and policy gradients. Ranked 7th globally (top 0.5%).

Reinforcement Learning · Python

GitHub Highlights

Latest repositories from GitHub.

ResearchGate

View my publications and ongoing research on ResearchGate. Visit ResearchGate

Technical Skills

Programming & ML

Python, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Git

Deep Learning & Research

Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative AI, RAG, Responsible AI, CUDA, Multimodal Fusion, W&B, API Development, Hugging Face, LLM Fine-tuning

Data & Cloud

MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Apache Spark, GCP (Vertex AI, TPU), AWS (EC2/S3), Azure ML, Docker

Education

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

Yeshiva University, Katz School of Science and Health

New York, NY · Dec 2025 · GPA 3.8/4.0

PG Diploma in Data Science

Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore

India · Jun 2024 · GPA 3.8/4.0

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Contact

Email

prashantsonibps@gmail.com

Phone

+1 551 362 9944

Location

New York, NY