Experience

Research Scientist (Consulting)

| Talking Yak English Learning Private Limited

Bangalore, India

  • Co-led the development and launch of a low latency conversational AI product for interview preparation and language learning, balancing model capability, response speed, and user experience.
  • Built a capability-based query router that directs conversations to LLMs according to the reasoning effort required.
  • Developing an agent-based spaced repetition system with structured long-term memory represented as event subgraphs, enabling context-aware retrieval and adaptive review.

GenAI Research Intern

| Fujitsu Research of India Private Limited

Bangalore, India

  • Built neurosymbolic pipelines for grounded reasoning and verification in legal and coding domains.

Lead Research Intern

| Talking Yak English Learning Private Limited

Bangalore, India

  • Built the conversational agent later integrated into the product, and developed automated scoring for learner speaking performance using LoRA fine-tuned models validated against expert raters.

Project Scientist

| Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, India

  • Built interactive simulations and educational technology for teaching artificial intelligence, supporting faculty across the M.Tech (Online) Programme in AI, Data Science, and Electronics streams.

Fellow

| Teach For India

Chennai, India

  • Completed a two-year classroom teaching fellowship, developing data-driven interventions and applying learning engineering to improve student outcomes.

Research Intern

| Tata Elxsi

Trivandrum, India

  • Developed adaptive model predictive control and time series modeling methods; contributed to the autonomous driving stack later demonstrated as Tata Elxsi's RoboTaxi at CES 2020.