Background
Professional Experience
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Senior Applied Scientist Founding Member, Physical AI and Robotics Lab — Robot-learning research and product development, including technical direction and evaluation on real hardware. Building enterprise NL2SQL and NL2Data systems for reliable business analytics. Co-led OraPlan-SQL, winner of the 2025 Archer NL2SQL Challenge, and SOMA-SQL, which reached #1 on Spider 2.0 Lite in April 2026.
Enterprise AI research
My enterprise AI work at Oracle includes building enterprise data agents that turn structured data into trusted business insight.
At the core is an ontology-driven semantic store that maps entities, metrics, relationships, and domain rules onto enterprise data, giving agents the context to understand business intent. This semantic layer provides the foundation for our NL2SQL work. I co-led OraPlan-SQL to first place in the 2025 Archer NL2SQL Challenge and SOMA-SQL to #1 on Spider 2.0 Lite in April 2026, two competitive enterprise NL2SQL benchmarks.
Building on this retrieval foundation, I focus on agents that reason over evidence, detect patterns, and surface insights proactively, moving toward a future where LLMs help humans understand their data, not just query it.
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Research Scientist Intern Pre-trained a multi-modal LLM for on-device deployment to improve personalized text prediction on iPhones.
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Research Scientist Intern Improved low-resource BERT performance with task-aware data augmentation and meta-learning.
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Research Intern Developed a control algorithm for self-driving cars in crowded environments using an inverse reinforcement learning pedestrian model.
Education
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PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Professor Pengtao Xie 2025-2026 Dr. William S.C. Chang Best Dissertation Award
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B.Tech, Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering Advisors: Professor Sumohana S. Channappayya and Professor Adity Siripuram Second-highest CGPA in the B.Tech program across all departments Academic Excellence Award, awarded twice
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Exchange Program Worked on blockchain and AI applications for power grid systems through a cross-cultural research program.