Atharva Keni

I am a senior at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences with a minor in Data Science (expected May 2027). My technical focus lies at the intersection of machine learning architectures, physical electronic circuit design, and agentic AI systems.

Currently, I am an AI Engineer Intern at PwC. Alongside my industry work, my primary research is focused broadly on Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI), exploring how we can decode cognitive states and build robust neural pipelines.

Before Berkeley, I was an independent inventor, filing two USPTO applications in high school. My first patent, Water Management System for Water Conservation (#11,403,720), was granted in August 2022. My second, Air Monitoring and Control System (US 16/994,597), was published in May 2022.

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Technical Interests

Brain–Computer Interfaces and neural signal processing
Context-optimization engines and agentic AI systems
Machine Learning (PyTorch, attention layers, Hidden Markov Models)
Electronic circuit design and hardware integration

Currently

Interning as an AI Engineer at PwC
Researching and developing Brain–Computer Interface applications
Taking CS 169 (Software Engineering) at UC Berkeley
Expanding my knowledge in fundamental algorithms and preparing for the GRE

Feel free to reach out — I am always happy to discuss AI architectures, neural engineering, or collaborate on hardware-software integration.

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.