Curriculum Vitae

Akash Dubey

Berkeley Heights, NJ | 212-814-3681 | akash.dubey@rutgers.edu

A running record of school, research, engineering, teaching, leadership, projects, certifications, and awards.

Rutgers

Honors College

GPA

4.0

SAT

1580

Current

Research + startups

Education

Rutgers University Honors College, School of Arts and Sciences

Sep 2024 - May 2027

New Brunswick, NJ

B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics

Minor in Quantitative Economics

GPA: 4.0

Academy for Information Technology, Union County Vocational-Technical Schools

Sep 2020 - Jun 2024

Scotch Plains, NJ

High school diploma

Mathematics Award

QPA: 97.92

Engineering and Work

New York Life Insurance

Incoming Software Engineering Intern

May 2026 - Aug 2026

Scarlet Sync

Founder

Jan 2025 - Present

Built a Rutgers scheduling and degree-planning product used by hundreds of students.
Created AI-assisted ingestion pipelines for classes, sections, and degree requirements from legacy university systems.

Lykke

Software Engineer

Sep 2025 - Present

Working on multi-model ingestion, browser-side RAG, and Canvas-connected study tooling.
Built local WebGPU-powered retrieval workflows for private, fast client-side use.

Samaritan Scout

Frontend / Full Stack Engineer

May 2023 - Aug 2025

Built product surfaces in React and TypeScript for a volunteer-opportunity search platform.
Helped build large-scale search and agentic scraping pipelines covering volunteer and nonprofit data.

Research

Rutgers Economics Labs

President; formerly Research Director, Team Lead, Economic Researcher

Oct 2024 - Present

Leading agency-facing quantitative research for NJDOL, NJDEP, NJBPU, HUD, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Using Python and R for econometrics, public-sector analysis, historical budget scraping, and forecasting.

Rutgers Department of Computer Science

Research Assistant

Jan 2026 - Present

Studying second-order optimization for large-scale machine learning.
Designing agentic systems for non-sequential code generation from research papers.

Algorithmic Robotics and Control Lab, Rutgers CS

Research Assistant

Jan 2026 - Present

Optimizing motion-planning algorithms with CUDA for scalable high-dimensional robotics.
Exploring robotics applications of vision-language-action models.

Kwan Lab, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Computational Biology Research Assistant

Jan 2026 - Present

Built tooling for TAD-boundary deletion analysis and chromatin simulation from Hi-C data.

Skills

PythonC++CUDATypeScriptRSQLReactPyTorchWeb scrapingComputer visionLLMsData scienceFull-stack web developmentArduinoRobotics3D modeling and printingSpanishIT support

Certifications

Microsoft Word 2019Microsoft PowerPoint 2019Microsoft Excel 2019Microsoft Excel Expert 2019Microsoft Access 2019IC3 Digital Literacy GS6 MasterCompTIA ITF+Oracle Java Foundations (1Z0-811)Oracle Database Foundations (1Z0-006)

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Activities and Leadership

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