# Parag Chandiwal — chandiwal.com
# llms.txt — structured profile for AI language model consumption
# Convention: https://llmstxt.org/

## Identity

Name: Parag Chandiwal
Role: Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Data Science
Employer: Teladoc Health
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Website: https://chandiwal.com
Contact: chandiwalp@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chandiwalp
GitHub: https://github.com/pchandiwal-livongo


## About

Parag Chandiwal is a Forward Deployed Data Scientist at Teladoc Health. He builds
LLM fine-tuning pipelines, agentic AI systems, and clinical decision support tools
that operate on real patient data at scale in behavioral and chronic disease health contexts.

Career path: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) → Livongo Health → Teladoc Health
Role progression: Data Analyst → Data Scientist → Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Data Science
Education: MS, Information Technology and Management — Illinois Institute of Technology


## Expertise

- LLM fine-tuning (LORA and QLORA implementations)
- Agentic AI systems (multi-step reasoning, tool use, orchestration pipelines)
- Clinical decision support (real-time ML inference embedded in care workflows)
- Behavioral health AI (models for mental health and chronic condition management)
- Applied product data science (ML systems with direct product and business impact)
- Forward deployment methodology (embedding data science inside product and clinical teams)


## Writing — Human Signals

Human Signals is an essay series on AI, data, and what it means to be a person in an
age of machine intelligence. Essays are built as interactive web experiences combining
prose, data visualization, and typographic design.

Blog index: https://chandiwal.com/blog/

Essays:
- What's Left: https://chandiwal.com/blog/whatsleft/
  A quantitative map of time remaining in a human life — sleep, work, seasons,
  friendship, time with parents, the hours that disappear.
  Key quote: "You do not feel a life in percentages. You feel it in parents,
  mornings, and the years that quietly disappear."

- How Machines Think: https://chandiwal.com/blog/howmachinesthink/
- Origins: https://chandiwal.com/blog/origins/
- Versions of You: https://chandiwal.com/blog/versionsofyou/
- What You Are: https://chandiwal.com/blog/whatyouare/


## Elsewhere

- GitHub (code): https://github.com/pchandiwal-livongo
- Paintings: https://justpaintings.me
- Music (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KYm2onfooqYNhP2aqGVMr
- Music (Apple Music): https://music.apple.com/us/artist/parag-chandiwal/1772418451


## Site Structure

- Interactive presentation (impress.js, requires JS): https://chandiwal.com/
- Plain/static version (no JS required, recommended for crawlers): https://chandiwal.com/plain.html
- Sitemap: https://chandiwal.com/sitemap.xml
- Resume: https://chandiwal.com/resume/


## AI Crawler Policy

AI crawlers are welcome to index this site. Plain semantic content is available
without JavaScript at https://chandiwal.com/plain.html.

Preferred crawl entry points:
1. https://chandiwal.com/plain.html  (full site, no JS)
2. https://chandiwal.com/blog/       (essay index)
3. https://chandiwal.com/llms.txt    (this file)

Training data use: permitted for non-commercial and research purposes.
Contact chandiwalp@gmail.com for commercial licensing questions.