Experience

Professional Experience

What got me up in the morning

PRESENT

Graduate Research Assistant @ Swarm Lab, University of Texas at Austin | August 2026 | Austin, Texas

Incoming Electrical and Computer Engineering Master's student at University of Texas at Austin

Specialization in Decision Information and Communications Engineering - focus on deep learning

Member of Technical Staff @ Synthefy | June 2025 | Remote

Developed deep and foundational models for structured data

Focused on time series and tabular data

Researched and implemented agentic systems for working with structured data

Engineering support for training at scale and deployment of models

Data Scientist @ Bing Translation at Microsoft India | August 2023 | Hyderabad

Developed triggering and translation models for Bing queries

Explored image translation models

Fullstack UX development for translation experience

Built triggering models for translation intent that brought Bing to parity with competition

Prompt engineered for improved translation quality

Master's Thesis: Depth Prediction and Light Field Reconstruction | July 2022 | IIT Madras

Developed video models for depth extraction

Implemented convolutional vision transformer models

Created dataset of synced videos using custom app

Published to ICCP 2024 with distinction

Machine Learning Intern at Microsoft India | May 2022 | Remote

Implemented Electra for LM rescoring

Improved existing ASR module performance

Deployed GPU training scripts on Azure ML platform

Optimized model training workflows

Data & Analytics Intern at Cargill Business Services | September 2021 | Remote

Built NLP module for unsupervised text classification

Implemented topic modelling on temporal textual data

Applied network graphs for audit data analysis

Delivered comprehensive analytics solution

Data Analyst Intern at BluePad | May 2021 | Chennai

Developed keyword extraction for Indic languages

Implemented topic modelling and classification

Fine-tuned multilingual models (mBART, mt5)

Built vernacular translation capabilities

Design Engineer, Mechanical Lead at Team Anveshak | April 2019 | CFI IIT Madras

Designed rover components and systems

Performed kinematic and IK spatial computations

Led mechanical design team development

Represented IIT Madras in international competitions

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