Summer Research Intern — Emergence AI

New York City May 2025 – Oct 2025

  • Worked with a long-term memory system for conversational agents.
  • Achieved SOTA on LongMemEval with 86% accuracy, surpassing the previous best by 15%.
  • Developed specialised agents for enterprise tasks in planning and self-improvement.

Graduate Research Assistant — UMBC

Baltimore, MD Jan 2022 – Present

  • Enhancing mathematical reasoning in LLMs through human-driven learning techniques.
  • Designed Sim2Real framework with YOLO object detectors — 85% transfer success to real-world robots.
  • Enhanced nano drone navigation efficiency by 30% using Hierarchical RL.
  • RLHF via TAMER (Scalar binary feedback) for sequential decision-making agents.
  • Integrated graph attention networks in R-GCN — 20% improvement in sample efficiency.

Graduate Assistant — UMBC

Baltimore, MD Aug 2021 – Dec 2021

  • Assisted in teaching CMSC 691.4 (Intro to Data Science) for 50+ students, ensuring 95% assignment completion.
  • Collaborated with professor on student projects, increasing engagement rates by 20%.

Software Engineer — Titan Company Limited

Bengaluru, India Jul 2019 – Apr 2021

  • Built Spring Boot + REST API web app for 8,000+ employees — 40% reduction in data retrieval time.
  • Python dashboard for login analytics — 25% improvement in user engagement tracking.

Software Engineer Intern — Titan Company Limited

Bengaluru, India Mar 2019 – Jun 2019

  • Improved software reliability by 30%, reduced bug occurrences by 20%.
  • Tested BPM-related applications, increasing process efficiency by 25%.

Research Intern — National University of Singapore

Singapore Jun 2018 – Jul 2018

  • Achieved 98.5% accuracy on credit card fraud detection — outperformed ANN, RF, SVM.
  • Advanced preprocessing reduced data redundancy by 25% and training time by 30%.