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| Presented "Quantifying Privacy Risks of Masked Language Models Using Membership Inference Attacks" (EMNLP 2022) in CSCI 699 at USC. | |
| Started as a Grader for CSCI 585 Database Systems at USC, under Prof. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh. | |
| Built a warehouse tote perception pipeline: 0.958 pick score on 120 ARMBench images, 619 ms median on a laptop CPU. | |
| Joined Tabhi as an AI Engineer Intern (Search & Recommendation Systems) in Austin, TX, building hybrid Elasticsearch and vector retrieval over a 450K-item catalog. | |
| Contributed an RPC reliability & failover redesign to the DefiLlama SDK, fixing endpoint override precedence and adding runtime quarantine. | |
| Built AgentPay at the Southern California Blockchain Hackathon: an autonomous multi-agent micro-economy with on-chain payments and staked reputation. | |
| Started as a Research Assistant (Real-Time AI Systems) at USC under Prof. Laurent Itti, building real-time monocular visual odometry and SLAM with a GTSAM factor-graph backend. | |
| Attended WE25, the Society of Women Engineers annual conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| Reached the final round of the IndeHub Hackathon 2025, a post-WWDC hybrid hackathon for building on Apple platforms, with Voxel Strides: an iOS app that turns daily tasks into a gamified adventure, with an ARKit companion and an on-device Core ML agent that breaks goals into steps. | |
| Started a Master of Science in Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles. | |
| Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, GPA 9.13 / 10. | |
| Returned for CodeShastra X, the 10th-anniversary edition of the 24-hour national hackathon at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai. | |
| Joined YMT Medical as a Machine Learning Intern, building on-device clinical computer vision for micro-lesion detection and deterministic acne grading. | |
| Presented "Blockchain-based Music Streaming Platform using NFTs" at IEEE ICSCSS 2023. Published in IEEE Xplore. | |
| Reached the second round of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2023. | |
| Joined the Rotaract Club of Thane Greenspans as a Community Engagement Volunteer, running coastal cleanups that removed over 100 kg of waste and donation drives for underserved communities. | |
| Won 1st place out of 50+ teams at Syrus 2023, a 24-hour Web3 hackathon organised by CodeCell, VESIT. | |
| Competed at CodeShastra 9.0, a 24-hour offline hackathon organised by the DJ-CSI Student Chapter at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai. | |
| Began a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering at the University of Mumbai. |