Hi I'm Varad

PhD Student

Computer Science (NCSU)

Interested in Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, and Intelligent Systems

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Experience

Research, teaching, and professional roles I've held.

Teaching Assistant

August 2025 - Present

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

  • Conduct weekly office hours and discussion sessions to clarify lecture content, assignments, and project implementations.
  • Assist with grading and providing detailed feedback on Java assignments involving state-space search, inference, and optimization.

Research Assistant

January 2024 - August 2025

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

  • Worked on AI-in-Education research, focusing on reconstructing student coding behavior from keystroke-level data collected via a custom Eclipse plugin.
  • Developed an Eclipse plugin to capture fine-grained coding activity and provide real-time code insights to students, enabling analysis of programming behavior and learning patterns.

Graduate Studios Advisor | Pentair Fellow

January 2024 - August 2025

North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh NC

  • Developed the Library AI Assistant, a LangChain and GPT-powered retrieval system integrating ChromaDB for intelligent access to internal documents and staff FAQs, as part of the Pentair Graduate Fellowship.
  • Showcased interactive AI demos and prototypes at library pop-up events, promoting the adoption of generative AI tools in library workflows.

Student Researcher

August 2022 - May 2023

L3Cube, India

  • Conducted research on multilingual and code-mixed NLP, focusing on Hindi-English datasets.
  • Developed and fine-tuned transformer-based models for sentiment analysis and text classification, contributing to publications in IEEE and Elsevier venues.

Cybersecurity Intern

March 2022 - December 2022

CyberReconn, India

  • Assisted in threat intelligence and vulnerability assessment projects, analyzing network traffic and identifying potential security risks.
  • Worked on OSINT-based threat intelligence, contributing to the development of an automated OSINT tool for efficient data gathering and analysis.

Education

Academic background and degrees earned.

PhD in Computer Science

August 2025 - Present

North Carolina State University

M.S. in Computer Science

August 2023 - July 2025

North Carolina State University

B.E. in Computer Engineering

August 2019 - May 2023

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Fellowships

  • Pentair Graduate Fellowship
    North Carolina State University Libraries (2024 - 2025)

Projects

Check out some of my projects

Library AI Assistant - 2025

LangChain, ChromaDB, GPT-5, Python

Early Detection of Osteoarthritis in Young Dogs - 2024

Python, CNN, transformers

LLM-Geolocation - 2024

Chat-GPT, Python

Pop-up Demos - 2024

Llama, Deep-seek, Local-LLM, Pytorch, Pygame

Galaxia - 2024

OpenGL, JavaScript, Computer Graphics

Doctor's Journal - 2021

Flutter, Firebase / Firestore, Dart

Pentesting Tools - 2021

Python, Networking, Security

Blood Bank Management System - 2021

HTML, CSS, Java, PHP, MySQL

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Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and research articles authored or co-authored by me.

  • Reconstructing Student Coding Behavior from Keystroke-Level Data: A Plugin-Based Approach
    Varad Patwardhan
    Published Master's Thesis , 2025.
    Full Thesis
  • EclipseMonitor: A Real-Time Student Programming Environment Data Collection Tool
    Saminur Islam, Zhikai Gao, John Bacher, Gabriel Silva De Oliveira, Varad Patwardhan, Sarah Heckman, Collin Lynch
    Published in SIGCSETS, 2025.
    DOI | Full Poster
  • Language augmentation approach for code-mixed text classification
    Gauri Takawane, Abhishek Phaltankar, Varad Patwardhan, Aryan Patil, Raviraj Joshi, Mukta S. Takalikar
    Published in Natural Language Processing Journal, 2024.
    DOI | Full Paper
  • Comparative Study of Pre-Trained BERT Models for Code-Mixed Hindi-English Data
    Aryan Patil, Varad Patwardhan, Abhishek Phaltankar, Gauri Takawane, Raviraj Joshi
    Published in IEEE International Conference for Convergence of Technology, 2023.
    DOI | Full Paper
  • Analysing The Sentiments Of Marathi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Data Using Machine Learning Techniques
    Varad Patwardhan, Gauri Takawane, Nirmayi Kelkar, Omkar Gaikwad, Rutwik Saraf, Sheetal Sonawane
    Published in IEEE Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics, 2023.
    DOI | Full Paper

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