Curriculum Vitae • Santa Clara, California
General Information
Full NameRajasekhar Reddy Mekala
Current RoleSoftware Engineer — Generative AI Platforms & Agent Systems, Adobe Inc.
LocationSanta Clara, CA
Email
LanguagesEnglish, Telugu, Hindi
Education

Master of Science in Computer Science — University of California, Irvine

2021 – 2023 • Irvine, CA
GPA: 3.94 / 4.00 • Advisor: Dr. Sameer Singh

B.Tech (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering (Minor in Computer Science) — Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

2014 – 2018 • Kharagpur, India
GPA: 9.04 / 10.00 • All India Rank 481 (JEE Advanced) & AIR 120 (JEE Mains)
Professional & Research Experience

Software Engineer — Generative AI Platforms & Agent Systems, Adobe Inc.

Jun 2023 – Present • Santa Clara, CA
Core contributor to Adobe Brand Concierge, working on agent orchestration, grounded retrieval, inference services, and evaluation infrastructure.

Software Developer — TruckX Inc.

Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 • Sunnyvale, CA

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Graduate Student Researcher — University of California, Irvine

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023 • Irvine, CA

Software Engineer I–II — Adobe Inc.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2021 • Bangalore, India

Research Intern (BigData Experience Lab) — Adobe Research

May 2017 – Jul 2017 • Bangalore, India
Publications, Patents & Invention Disclosures Publication Details & BibTeX →
Year Venue / Status Title & Co-Authors
Adobe Brand Concierge Invention disclosures Demand-paged agent context with revocable tool capabilities; Evidence-linked causal evolution of typed agent manifests; Anti-collusion dual optimization for judges and agents — Rajasekhar Reddy Mekala
2024 NAACL 2024 EchoPrompt: Instructing the Model to Rephrase Queries for Improved In-Context Learning — Rajasekhar Reddy Mekala, Yasaman Razeghi, Sameer Singh
2022 EMNLP 2022 Snoopy: An Online Interface for Exploring the Effect of Pretraining Term Frequencies on Few-Shot LM Performance — Yasaman Razeghi*, Raja Sekhar Reddy Mekala*, Robert L. Logan IV, Matt Gardner, Sameer Singh
2020 JOSS 2020 SunPy: A Python package for Solar Physics — Stuart J. Mumford et al., including Rajasekhar Reddy Mekala
2019 US Patent US20190354388A1: Tenant-side detection, classification, and mitigation of noisy-neighbor-induced performance degradation — Subrata Mitra, Sopan Khosla, Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Rajasekhar Reddy Mekala, and Aashaka Dhaval Shah (Adobe Inc.)
Teaching Experience (UC Irvine)
Period Course Responsibilities
Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 INF 191A / 191B: Senior Design Project Teaching assistant for Senior Design Project.
Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 GDIM 25: Game Design and Interactive Media Teaching assistant.
Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 INF 133: User Interaction Software Teaching assistant.
Honors & Awards
Year Honor / Distinction
Feb 2021 Spot Award at Adobe Inc. for spontaneous resolution of customer issues.
Apr 2020 Special Contribution Award at Adobe Inc. for innovative implementations in Adobe RoboHelp Server.
Jun 2017 Best Intern Project Award at Adobe Research among 23 intern projects.
2014 All India Rank 120 in IIT-JEE Mains & All India Rank 481 in IIT-JEE Advanced (among 1.5 million applicants).
Mar 2013 KVPY Fellowship from India's Department of Science and Technology.
Apr 2013 Selected for the one-month International Mathematical Olympiad training program.
Technical Skills & Interests