01 / Career trajectory

Experience

  1. ML Research AssistantUniversity of VirginiaTenureNov 2025 – May 2026LocationCharlottesville, VA

    Role description

    Inference-time activation-steering research focused on language-model visual bias.

    Selected impact

    • Built an inference-time activation steering pipeline for LLMs in PyTorch and NNSight, intervening on residual-stream activations across Qwen models with frozen weights.
    • Engineered a filtering pipeline over 616K+ COCO captions using lexical scoring, next-token probability disparities, and RMSE-based layer selection.
    • Reduced RMS next-token bias 28.9% while preserving output quality across 1,000 samples.

    Working set

    • PyTorch
    • NNSight
    • Activation Steering
    • Interpretability
  2. GenAI Technical Advisor Intern · SEALScale AITenureJun 2025 – Dec 2025LocationRemote

    Role description

    Frontier-model safety, evaluation, and agent reliability work on the Scale AI SEAL team.

    Selected impact

    • Red-teamed frontier LLMs in Scale AI SEAL, identifying jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, prompt-injection risks, and agent security failure modes.
    • Produced RLHF-style code evaluation data for complex software-engineering and competitive-programming tasks.
    • Improved system prompts and tool use in agentic workflows to increase model safety, consistency, and multi-step reliability.

    Working set

    • LLMs
    • RLHF
    • Model Safety
    • Evaluation
  3. Software Engineer InternRefraction Innovation HubTenureJun 2025 – Aug 2025LocationMcLean, VA

    Role description

    Cross-platform nutrition and food-recognition product development across mobile, AI, and cloud systems.

    Selected impact

    • Architected a cross-platform food recognition app in TypeScript and React Native with OpenAI multimodal APIs.
    • Deployed authentication through AWS Cognito with storage on AWS RDS and Azure SQL across iOS and Android.
    • Improved load time 55% and reached 99.5% crash-free sessions through memory optimizations and lazy-loading monitored with AWS CloudWatch.

    Working set

    • TypeScript
    • React Native
    • OpenAI
    • AWS
  4. B.S. in Computer ScienceUniversity of VirginiaTenureMay 2026LocationCharlottesville, VA

    Academic details

    GPA 3.7

    Coursework

    • Computer Systems
    • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Software Engineering
    • Cybersecurity
    • Machine Learning
    • Reinforcement Learning

    Focus areas

    • Computer Science
    • Cybersecurity
    • Machine Learning
    • Software Engineering