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Work & Research Experience

May 2026 - Aug 2026

Lanai

Machine Learning Intern

Palo Alto, CA

  • Built a lightweight multi-class classification model to detect PII in AI prompts

  • Cut inference costs by 43% and latency by 15% relative to previous LLM based model

June 2025 - Aug 2025

Kyron Learning

Software Engineering Intern

Cambridge, MA

  • Built MCP integration enabling LLMs to access Kyron APIs, including OAuth workflows

  • This project was demoed in partnership with Instructure at Instructurecon 2025 keynote

July 2024 - Dec 2025

Hassoun Lab - Tufts University

Undergraduate Researcher

Medford, MA

  • Developing a contrastive learning model to resolve compound synonyms in the KEGG biological database

  • Experimenting with chunking strategies and vector embeddings for RAG with FAISS

  • Researching NER, NEN, and contrastive learning strategies to efficiently and effectively extract information from biomedical text

July 2023 - Aug 2024

T.E.C.I. Center - Stanford University

Student Research Intern

Stanford, CA

  • Streamlined data collection workflows for laparoscopic ventral hernia repair surgeries

  • Assisted in simulation surgeries, motion sensor testing, biometrics collection, and grant proposal editing

Feb 2023 - May 2024

Kaplan Lab - Tufts University

Research Assistant

Medford, MA

  • Conducted research on thermoplastic molding of silk and bacterial materials

  • Gained experience in cell culture, tissue engineering, and 3D printing

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Bio-Techne - Advanced Cell Diagnostics

Student Intern

Newark, CA

  • Analyzed tissues for RNA using genetic markers with probe solutions, staining, scanning and post processing. 

  • My project tested diseased liver samples.

Technical Skills

Programming:

Python, C, C++, Java, Go, React, Ruby on Rails, MATLAB

ML/Data:

PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, Hugging Face Transformers, Stable-Baselines3, scikit-learn, NumPy, FAISS, Amazon SageMaker

Infra/Backend:

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Git

Dev Tools:

Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot

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