Akilesh Jayakumar
Akilesh

Akilesh Jayakumar

exploring / experimenting with GenAI & LLMs

Education

University of Wollongong logo

University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Computer Science, Cyber Security

2026

Experience

IRAS logo

Intern, AI Engineer

Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)

Jul 2025 – Present
Singapore Department of Statistics logo

Intern, AI Engineer

Singapore Department of Statistics (DOS)

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
HTX logo

Intern, AI Engineer

Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX)

Apr 2024 – Sep 2024
CPF Board logo

Intern, AI Engineer

Central Provident Fund Board (CPF Board)

Nov 2023 – Apr 2024

Writings

One Month with Comet: The AI Browser That Changed How I Research

October 2025

My experience using Perplexity's Comet, the AI browser: best features, agentic workflows, and how shortcuts changed my daily browsing.

Thoughts on areas for improvement and sample prompts for new users.

Projects

GuessSG

December 2025

Side Project

A Wordle-style word guessing game that lets players guess words based on Singapore food, landmarks, and local slang.

Features AI-powered hints using Perplexity API and real-time feedback on guesses.

Tailwind CSS

DoodleMorph

October 2025

Cursor Hackathon Singapore 2025

Built an app that transforms your doodles/sketches into creative images, character designs, and cinematic animations.

Used fal for media generation and Groq for fast prompt enhancements.

TLDrawFal.AIGoogle DeepMindGroq

Hawker Food Menu Helper

August 2025

EMERGENCY GPT HACKATHON 2025

Upload a hawker centre menu photo to extract all dishes and prices.

Get healthy and value picks, and chat to explore the menu.

Tailwind CSSGroq

DeepPurple

April 2025 - September 2025

UOW Final Year Capstone Project

Built a cloud-based multimodal GenAI platform to analyse customer emotions, sentiment, and key topics.

Deployed on AWS with RESTful APIs for automated, scalable analysis tasks across uploaded files and chat data.

OpenAIDockerAWS

PromptTacular

April 2025

Side Project

A high-precision assistant that rewrites and generates prompts and prompt templates.

Runs inside Perplexity Spaces and generates prompts from descriptions and produces prompt templates for devs using LangChain and LlamaIndex.

EduX

October 2024

NES CatalystX Hackathon 2024

Interactive AI tutor application that processes PDFs, PowerPoint files, and images for multimodal learning.

Features speech-to-text, text-to-speech capabilities, and support for accessibility.

StreamlitNVIDIA NIMLlamaIndex

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