Kanav Arora
M.S. Computer Science @ Columbia
I'm a computer science master's student at Columbia and a UC Santa Barbara graduate.
My work at ChipAgents AI focused on agent infrastructure and chip verification. I also studied LLM coordination at the UCSB NLP Lab. Before that I interned at HPE, Cisco, and Jio — mostly building AI things and shipping them to real users.
I also started ACM @ UCSB, which went from zero to 550+ members. That was probably the hardest thing I've done in college.
I'm interested in the engineering and research that make AI systems useful on difficult, real-world tasks.
Education
B.S. Computer Science · 3.9 GPA
CS Undergraduate Student of the Year '25
Things I Believe
Focus creates time. Busy is not productive.
Permanent solutions over one-time workarounds.
The best systems are built by people who understand both the theory and the plumbing.
Documentation is leverage.
Consistency compounds. Daily systems beat sporadic heroics.
Ship and iterate. Perfect is the enemy of deployed.
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