Professional Experience

• Oracle AI Aug 2025 - Present
  Senior Applied Scientist Building enterprise NL2SQL and NL2Data systems for reliable business analytics.
• Apple Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
  Research Scientist Intern Pre-trained a multi-modal LLM for on-device deployment to improve personalized text prediction on iPhones.
• Tencent AI Lab Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
  Research Scientist Intern Improved low-resource BERT performance with task-aware data augmentation and meta-learning.
• Texas A&M University May 2019 - Aug 2019
  Research Intern Developed a control algorithm for self-driving cars in crowded environments using an inverse reinforcement learning pedestrian model.

Education

• University of California, San Diego Sep 2020 - May 2025
  PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering 2025-2026 Dr. William S.C. Chang Best Dissertation Award
• Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Aug 2016 - May 2020
  B.Tech, Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering Second-highest CGPA across all B.Tech departments; twice awarded the Academic Excellence Award
• Ritsumeikan University Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
  Exchange Program Worked on blockchain and AI applications for power grid systems through a cross-cultural research program.