Experience
2025
Researcher @ NASA-JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jun 2025 - Sept 2025
- developing a machine learning framework for predicting jacobians in atmospheric flux inversions
Researcher @ Anima AI + Science Lab
California Institute of Technology
Nov 2024 - Present
- machine learning for solving partial differential equations.
2024
Research Intern @ O'Doherty Lab
California Institute of Technology
Aug 2024 - Present
- Investigated continual goal fixation in humans and addressed catastrophic forgetting in neural networks
- Developed a 3D maze game in C# and helped design the Deep Q-learning algorithm to navigate and solve the maze
2023-2024
Founding Software Engineer
Shifcart (acq. by wheesley)
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
- Architected a CRM system to scale logistics operations from 15 to 100 concurrent users using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
- Combined ElasticSearch for query capabilities and RabbitMQ for real-time messaging
- Designed a responsive web interface for 15,000+ users using React.js, styled with TailwindCSS, and optimized with Vite
2023
Research Intern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- Worked on Werding-Hoffman Disease in the Biogen Community Lab
- Employed Python with Pandas to analyze disease progression in terms of motor function decline rates
Research Assistant
Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Pilani
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- Solved coupled non-linear differential equations for rider dynamics using MATLAB and Python
- Derived and validated terrain-specific scaling laws with asymptotic analysis
Research Intern
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- Researched transcriptional dysregulation and epigenetic changes in Huntington's Disease pathogenesis
- Used Bowtie2, ChIP-seq, and CRISPResso for RNA-seq analysis and epigenome mapping
Management & Technology Summer Institute Student
Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- (attended on full scholarship) got to meet Michael Grimes, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, and learned how he led Google and Meta's IPO. Read about my full experience here.
2022
Admissions Interviewer
LaunchX Entrepreneurial Summer Program
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
- Interviewed, rated 50+ applications from all 6 continents
Alumni
The Knowledge Society
June 2022 - Present
- Developed a consulting deck for walmart to help improve the customer experience (worked on similar challenge with teams from Google and Amazon).
- worked on body fluid metabolomics for biomarker discovery and automated data labelling using rl (attended on full merit scholarship).
2021
Shadowing
National Institute of Plant Genome Research
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
- (got this after a cold email in sophomore year) Shadowed Dr. Senjuti Sinharoy for a couple of weeks, learned a lot about the lab's work on plant genomics even though I didn't contribute much conceptually.