Rahul Vishwakarma
Rahul Vishwakarma is building Navya, software that helps companies turn their engineers' inventions into patent applications. It runs on confidential computing, secure hardware designed so that client ideas stay sealed, unreadable even to Navya itself. He came to this after years at Dell Technologies, where he applied machine learning to enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, and data management, earning 60+ issued U.S. patents along the way. Lately he has focused on agentic reasoning, how AI systems plan and coordinate on their own, and sovereign AI, which keeps models and data under their owner's control. He is a BCS Fellow and a Senior Member of IEEE.
News
| July 2026 | Built Patent Auditor as part of GDG Newport Beach - Kaggle writeup: DraftGuard: Gemma-Powered Patent Consistency Audit (Build and Hack with Gemma 4.0) |
| July 2026 | Working paper - "Trace-Reconstruction Attacks and Trace-Private Defenses for Confidential LLM Agents" |
| Apr 2026 | Best Paper Award at the 19th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS 2026) - "Early Detection of Hardware Trojans Using Neural Controlled Differential Equations and Analysis of Power Traces" LinkedIn |
| Feb 2026 | Featured in VoyageLA Magazine - "Conversations with Rahul Vishwakarma" (Local Stories interview) |
| Dec 2025 | Speaker at IEEE New Era AI World Leaders Summit 2025, University of Washington - delivered three talks: "Endocrine-to-Synaptic: Learnable Signaling Primitives for Robust Multi-Agent AI", "Bio-Causal Agent Protocol", and "Design Specification and AI-Driven Digital Twin Architecture for Storage Devices" |
| Dec 2025 | My book Conformal Prediction for Inventors added to the CSULB University Library (New Books - December 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | 62nd U.S. Patent issued - US 12,470,574: "Methods and Systems for Anomalous Operation Detection on an Enterprise Server" (Dell Technologies) |
| Nov 2025 | Reviewer: ACM TheWebConf (WWW) 2026 Industry Track and AAAI 2026 Workshops (MURE and Rashomon Effect) |
| Oct 2025 | PyTorch Startup Showcase 2025 Award Winner (Community Choice) - mentee CuraVoice (PyTorch blog); featured in NVIDIA's "Open Source AI Week — How Developers and Contributors Are Advancing AI Innovation" |
| Oct 2025 | Poster Session Presenter at PyTorch Conference 2025 (San Francisco) - "Where Do Billions in Research Funding Really Go When Self-Citations Inflate Impact Scores by 20%" (with Sinchan Banerjee) Credly badge. Open-source package: scholar-citations (GitHub) |
| Sep 2025 | 61st U.S. Patent issued - US 12,423,710: "System and Method for Generation of Self-Guided Recovery Procedures and Suggestions" (Dell Technologies) |
| Sep 2025 | Talk accepted at IEEE New Era AI 2025 (delivered Dec 2025) - "Endocrine-to-Synaptic: Learnable Signaling Primitives for Robust Multi-Agent AI" Abstract, Demo |
| Sep 2025 | Since 2019, this is my 11th talk at SNIA SDC 2025 (Santa Clara, CA) in collabodation with Dell Technologies - Design Specification and AI-Driven Digital Twin Architecture for Storage Devices. |
| Aug 2025 | Talk @ IEEE Enterprise GenAI Summit 2025 (San Jose, CA) - AAA-IDE: Autonomous Agentic AI for Data Engineering. Source Code on GitHub, Code walkthrough on Substack |
| June 2025 | Mentored Curavoice, winners of 1st place and a $35,000 award at the 2025 Sunstone Innovation Challenge hosted by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, California State University, Long Beach. |
| Apr 2025 | Accepted as Semifinalist at MIT Solve 2025 Global Economic Prosperity Challenge |
| Mar 2025 | Accepted as a Mentor at Sunstone Innovation Challenge Mentor Program |
| Feb 2025 | Reviewer: ICLR 2025 Workshop AI4NA, ICLR 2025 Workshop DeLTa, and KDD 2025 ADS Track |
| Nov 2024 | Quoted in EdTech Magazine Cybersecurity Automation Helps Short-Staffed Higher Ed IT Departments Protect Data |
| Oct 2024 | Mentor at Rutgers Health Hack 2025 LinkedIn |
| Oct 2024 | Quoted in Technopedia Why Zero Trust Needs MFA to Succeed: Expert Analysis |
| Sep 2024 | Judge - Stevie Award for Technology Excellence |
| Sep 2024 | Entrepreneur Spotlight at California Satte University Long Beach Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship |
| Sep 2024 | Quoted by @IEEEorg on X for NIST ARIA (344.9K Followers) |
| Aug 2024 | Quoted by @IEEEorg on X - for Quantum Safe cryptography (IEEE Tramsmitter) |
| Aug 2024 | Quoted by Communications of the ACM (CACM) story focusing on NIST’s newly-released Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) program. |
| Aug 2024 | Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood |
| Aug 2024 | Quoted in CXO Today |
| Aug 2024 | BCS Fellow |
| July 2024 | Talk Accepted at SNIA SDC 2024 - Fortifying AIOps: CSAF and VEX Unite for Smarter Security |
| July 2024 | Ambassador International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) |
| July 2024 | “Spotting the Deepfake” - Quoted in IEEE Transmitter. |
| June 2024 | “SpeechCraft: An Integrated Data Generation Pipeline from Videos for LLM Finetuning”, accepted at The 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2024), Sunderland, UK, 28-30 Aug. 2024. (h-5 median 34). The work was done in collaboration with Google and Tubi TV. |
| May 2024 | Dean List - Collge of Engineering, California State Universltiy Long beach |
| May 2024 | I Graduated! Watch my commencement speech here: YouTube |
| May 2024 | I will serve as Program Committee in The 13th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2024), Milano, Milan, Italy. |
| May 2024 | I will serve as TPC in IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE 2024), Huntsville, AL. |
| May 2024 | Recognized as IEEE Impact Creator (featured in IEEE Transmitter). |
| Apr 2024 | Entrepreneur Spotlight (YouTube): An interviewed at Institute For Innovation & Entrepreneurship, CSULB. |
| Apr 2024 | An Interview with IDiyas Q&A: Meet Rahul Vishwakarma, Senior Member of IEEE with 51+ Granted Patents! |
| Apr 2024 | Featured on California State University Long Beach for Outstanding Graduate Student in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Awards. |
| Apr 2024 | Awarded $5000 at Sunstone Innovation Challenge @CSULB for Mindful Performance |
| Mar 2024 | California State University Long Beach for Making Waves: March 2024. |
| Mar 2024 | I founded AI Research Club at California State University. |
| Sep 2023 | Elevated to IEEE Senior Member. |
| Aug 2023 | Received ASI Student Travel Grant, ($900), California State University Long Beach. |