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ANALYTICAL.
CREATOR.
DEVELOPER.

  Urbana, Illinois


Hi! I am Ekansh Arora, a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying Math & CS.

I'm a competitive Scrabble player who has represented India.

I love hybrid training and talking about nutrition.
Int'l semifinalist at the World Youth Scrabble Championship
Ran a 04:27 marathon in SF
I run a personal brand about hybrid training



WHAT HAVE I  DONE SO FAR?
A collection of my experience



Avahi Inc.
AI/ML Engineering Intern
Avahi Inc. (AWS Premier Partner)
 Remote, USA


Developed sales dashboard that tracks funding requests from the AWS Partner Funding Portal. Built Slack agent that estimates AWS pricing on SOWs.
Personal Brand
fitbyekansh
 Instagram


Hybrid training content, inspiring people to do hard things.
Founder & Developer
Tiles of India
 Urbana, IL


React-based Scrabble trainer that drills 250k+ words with spaced repetition. 100+ daily users, adopted by the Scrabble Association of India.
AI Intern
Genpact
 Hyderabad, India


Built a tax code validation tool in Streamlit and Pandas for a pharma client. It parsed XML invoices and auto-corrected common tax code errors.
Scrabble Association of India (SAI)
Int'l Scrabble player
 Delhi, India


India rank #40. Won the National School Scrabble Championship '22 and made the int'l semifinals at WYSC '20.
Delhi Public School, Rohini
Class of 2024
 Delhi, India

Nurtured the right way. Won multiple national-level interschool competitions and olympiads in Math, CS, and quizzing.



PROJECTS
A selection of things I've built
Voice Commentary

An iMessage agent that replays famous cricket moments in a different commentator's voice. Text it a moment, hear the new call.

Redacted for privacy
BLS Advising Chatbot

A dual-agent RAG chatbot for a UIUC advising team, built at ATLAS. Embedded 100+ documents with LangChain; Qwen beat GPT-4 and LLaMA.

Internal project
Google Tasks MCP

An open-source MCP server that connects Google Tasks to Poke. Manage your to-do list in conversation instead of switching apps.
AI Pocket Tanks Player

An agent that plays Pocket Tanks by driving the mouse with PyAutoGUI. Tested 5 models via LiteLLM; averages 65 points against a level 10 CPU.
Publication
Effects of AI in Scrabble

Benchmarked the DAWG and GADDAG algorithms for Scrabble move generation across 500+ games. Despite roughly 5x the memory overhead, GADDAG generated moves about 2x faster, making it the stronger choice for competitive play.

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