Experience
Research, teaching, and applied AI across Boston University and industry.
2024 — Present
Experience
Research, teaching, and applied AI across Boston University and industry.
May 2026 — Present
Research Assistant at Boston University, Prof. Aaron Mueller
Boston, MA
AI safety research on sycophancy in instruction-tuned LLMs.
Trace sycophantic behavior back to specific post-training examples with influence functions (EK-FAC).
Fine-tune Olmo 2 7B Instruct on Tulu 3 with adversarial confounders: surface-similar agreement, polite decoys, warm corrections.
Validate causally through leave-out retraining across seeds while preserving MMLU and GSM8K.
May 2026 — June 2026
Teaching Assistant, CS460 Database Systems at Boston University, Prof. George Kollios
Boston, MA
Graduate database course covering SQL, indexing, query evaluation, and transactions.
Designed programming assignments, the final project, and reference solutions.
Wrote grading rubrics and evaluated submissions against them.
Jan 2025 — May 2025
Data Analyst at Strategic ERP
Ahmedabad, India
Built an internal AI assistant so teams could query the ERP in natural language.
Fine-tuned Llama 3 8B Instruct with LoRA on CRM and HRMS docs, HR policies, and query patterns for 4 enterprise clients.
Deployed as a REST endpoint for sales, HR, and support teams.
Fixed recurring data inconsistencies at source and cut error tickets by 25%.
May 2024 — Aug 2024
Research Assistant at IIIT Vadodara, Dr. Naveen Kumar
Gandhinagar, India
EV route planning with a Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for charging-station selection.
Selected charging stops across multi-stop routes, benchmarked against greedy and shortest-path baselines for 26% lower cost.
Built a Python simulator with pandas-based trip analysis.
Presented at CTSEM 2025 and in press with Springer Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering.