Work Experience
Computer Vision Researcher
OpenInterX
February 2025 - Present
- Engineering a scalable video memory and understanding framework to enhance AR applications by enabling long-term spatial and contextual awareness.
- Designing and optimizing a Python SDK for the Mavi platform, streamlining video analysis workflows for developers.
Undergraduate Researcher
IDEAS Lab - Purdue University
March 2025 - Present
- Researching advanced 3D mapping techniques to enhance robotic perception and novel view synthesis, aiming to improve scene reconstruction accuracy.
- Implementing real-time SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) algorithms to enable autonomous navigation and scene understanding in robotic systems.
Undergraduate Data Science Researcher
The Data Mine - Corporate Partners
August 2024 - December 2024
- Collaborated with AgRPA to create a weed detection system using UAVs for farms.
- Developed semantic segmentation and localization models to accurately locate weeds during real-time drone flight, speeding up ground-vehicle-based methods by 50%.
Science and Engineering Apprenticeship (SEAP) Intern
Naval Research Laboratory
June 2023 - August 2023
- Led a team of four interns in the PALIS project, applying machine learning to underwater acoustics with a specific focus on the interaction between semantic segmentation and acoustic loss modeling.
- Developed and implemented cutting-edge image-to-image translation models using UNets, Transformers, and GANs, improving transmission loss prediction accuracy by 20% compared to traditional physics-engine-based methods.
- Implemented a secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation model that utilized confidential documents and information to respond to prompts.
Integrated Photonics Design Engineer
Instachip (Formerly Procyon Photonics)
November 2022–June 2024
- Worked as part of a student-led startup to design powerful optical computing chips for neural network backpropagation and telecommunication.
- Designed optical circuits that combined digital and analog systems to perform powerful silicon-photonic computation.
Information Technology Assistant
Fairfax County Public Schools
June 2022 - August 2022
- Performed maintenance on school technology over the summer. Reimaged 2,000 student laptops, installed server software, and maintained hardware.