Ayush Rajesh Jhaveri

I am a second-year master’s student in Computer Science at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing, and I will soon begin my thesis under the guidance of Prof. Eunsol Choi. Recently, I interned as an AI Engineer at BCG, and I previously worked as an SDE II at Amazon.

Ayush Jhaveri headshot

Research Projects

Is Perplexity All You Need?
Feb 2025 – Present

Studying whether pretraining perplexity can predict downstream performance in LLMs.

Mitigating Unwanted Uncertainty in LLMs
Feb 2025 – Present

Identifying attention patterns under induced uncertainty and calibrating them in LLMs to reduce sycophancy.

LLM Evaluation in Mathematical Reasoning (MAPLE)
Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

Proposed a novel LLM evaluation framework (MAPLE score) to quantify math reasoning errors. arXiv link

Mosquito Species Detection
2022

Ayush Jhaveri, K. S. Sangwan, Vinod Maan, Dhiraj. Deep learning-based mosquito species detection using wingbeat frequencies. Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics, Springer Nature, pp. 71–80. Publisher link

Education

New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
M.S. Computer Science (AI Concentration)
Sep 2024 – May 2026
  • Courses: NLP, Emerging topics in NLP, Deep Decision Making & Reinforcement Learning
BITS Pilani
B.E. Computer Science; Minor in Data Science
Aug 2017 – Jun 2021

Experience

Boston Consulting Group — Summer AI Engineer, New York
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Designed and built an agentic AI-powered price recommendation system using LLMs for a major telecom client.
Amazon — Software Development Engineer II (Previously SDE I), Bangalore
Jul 2021 – May 2024
  • Led the design and development of a .NET-based vision product identification app for Amazon physical stores.
  • Built AWS-powered device provisioning automations.
  • Developed Vue.js-based payment systems.