Hey there! 👋 I'm Manav

🤖 Senior Research Engineer @ American Express | Building the future of agentic AI, one search tree at a time

🧠 What I'm obsessed with

• Search + LLMs = Magic ✨ Currently using MCTS to teach AI emotional intelligence through self-play
• Small models, big brains 🐜 Why use a 70B model when a 7B model with clever orchestration and a whole host of tools might work better?
• Agentic systems that actually ship 🚀 Built multi-agent frameworks serving thousands

🔬 Current experiments

• 🎯 Monte Carlo Tree Search for generating RL training data
• 🔍 Distilling large models into lean, mean, reasoning machines
• 🛠️ MCP servers that turn academic papers into production code
• 🌳 Teaching AI to explore conversation trees and find optimal paths

💻 Tech stack

Languages: Python, TypeScript, C++ | ML: PyTorch, vLLM, TensorFlow | Orchestration: LangGraph, MCP, FastAPI

🎓 Fun facts

• Told by a professor to avoid NLP in 2021 (best advice I never took 😄)
• Firm believer that search algorithms + tool use = AGI-lite

🚀 Featured Project

Conversational Analysis Engine - MCTS meets LLMs to optimize human conversations. Because sometimes the best response isn't the first one you think of.

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"The future of AI isn't just bigger models—it's smarter search and better orchestration" 🎯

📫 Let's connect and build something awesome together!