Rishi Atreya

Rishi is a first year M.S. candidate in the Laboratory for Neural Engineering and Control. Rishi’s research interests lie on the intersection of AI and healthcare with work expanding from machine learning to creating production level agentic platforms. He has worked across healthcare companies integrating real time EMG data into AR smart glasses for intraoperative nerve monitoring, implementing GPT-based ECG analysis workflows, and developing arrhythmia classification models. He is currently designing and building an AI-driven security platform that uses LLM agents to scan infrastructure and validate findings against threat intelligence.

Education:
B.S. Bioengineering (minor in Computer Science), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2026