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title: "Harshitha Akkineni - Lead AI Engineer in Durham | Tal"
description: "Meet Harshitha Akkineni, Research @ Duke, Neuroscience based in Durham. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github."
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# Harshitha Akkineni on Tal

## Headline

Research @ Duke, Neuroscience

## Location

Durham

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

github copilot

openai

Cartesia

## Work experience

Lead AI Engineer at SurfAI, Aug 2026 \- Present · 2 mo, Bangalore

Data Scientist at Eight Sleep, Jun 2025 \- Jul 2026 · 1 y 1 mo, Boston, MA

Research Analyst I at Duke University, 2023 \- Jun 2025 · 2 y 5 mo, North Carolina, United States

Summer Research Intern at Electronics Corporation of India Limited \(ECIL\), May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Telangana, India

## Education

Master of Science, Applied Statistics and Decision Analytics, Western Illinois University

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/harshithaakkineni20

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