I'm Bhuvan. I'm a Graduate Student at USC studying Computer Science, and before that I was a research intern at the Indian Institute of Science working on AI-assisted physical therapy.
When I'm not building, I'm usually on a trail somewhere near LA (I've done most of the major hikes at this point) or losing SR in Overwatch and Apex. I hit Masters in Apex and Diamond in Overwatch, both solo queue, which I'm convinced is harder than any system design interview.
work
USC Grand Challenges Scholars Program Backend & Cloud Pod Lead, 2026
Led the backend and cloud pods for the GCSP Network Portal, a collaboration platform connecting Grand Challenge Scholars across 100+ institutions. Owned API scalability on a FastAPI and Supabase service, and revamped and expanded the project site with forums, direct messaging and real-time channel chat.
Stylebot Software Engineering Intern, 2025
Built a grammar enforcement system from scratch for content-sensitive media companies: think style rules like "roundup" vs "round-up" vs "round up" where getting it wrong actually matters. Got the system to 98% detection coverage across edge cases, processing text from Google Docs in real-time for 20+ enterprise clients.
Indian Institute of Science AI Research Intern, 2023–24
Worked on an AI-assisted yoga coach for physical therapy recovery. Built a 10,000+ image dataset with custom anatomical keypoints defined alongside doctors, along with the annotation tooling and validation pipelines to keep it consistent as the team scaled.
awards
Early Career Innovator Award University of Southern California, 2025
things that shaped how i think
- Paul Graham's essays on startups and building
- Andrej Karpathy's lectures and talks on neural networks
- Dalton Caldwell & Michael Seibel: "How to Deal with Setbacks" (YouTube)
- Dalton Caldwell & Michael Seibel: "How Generosity Built Tech Giants" (YouTube)
- Computerphile
- Two Minute Papers
Contact: Email · LinkedIn · GitHub · Resume (pdf)