Experience
Research, leadership, and the work in between
Two distinct research assistantships at Northeastern, chapter leadership, and an early internship. Each role is its own line of work.
Roles
Research Assistant
Center for the Future of Higher Education and Work (CHEW)
Making Universities Work Research Program · Northeastern University
Boston, MA
- Led a full full-stack redesign of a higher-education civil-rights compliance web application using React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, TanStack Router, Zustand, and Zod, with Clerk auth and Playwright plus axe accessibility testing.
- Built automation to ingest institutions into the analysis pipeline, standardizing intake so new institutions require no component code changes.
- Packaged the application for shared and HPC deployment with a password-gated server and a SLURM-compatible startup script.
Research Assistant
Dr. Rominder Singh, Northeastern University
Boston, MA
- Two build efforts in regulatory-affairs AI: a global drug-regulatory RAG dataset pipeline, then a Canvas-embeddable RAG tutor.
Global Drug Regulatory RAG Dataset Pipeline
Feb 2026 – May 2026Scraped and prepared medicines and medical-devices regulatory data from 199 countries and 200 authorities into 59,284 RAG-ready semantic chunks across 9,321 validated documents, via a 5-stage clean, normalize, enrich, validate, and export pipeline with a SimHash dedup gate and 539+ tests.
RA Copilot
Jun 2026 – PresentA Canvas-embeddable text and voice RAG tutor for Regulatory Affairs (RA101): a 5-stage route, retrieve, generate, ground, and frame pipeline over a 611-chunk knowledge base and an 11-module curriculum map, on a ports-and-adapters backend with a config-only GPU-to-CPU serving switch (vLLM plus Qwen3) and 201 backend tests. Built with Om Patel.
Chapter Lead
ACM Student Chapter, Sathyabama University
Chennai, India
- Ran 10+ hands-on workshops on Git, Python, and applied AI/ML, including Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Advanced Neural Networks, training 100+ students over 3 years.
- Mentored junior members and taught classes on AI systems, from fundamentals to building working models.
- Served as Class Representative, coordinating between students and faculty.
Machine Learning Intern
Heuristers Technology Solutions LLP
Sathyabama Incubation Center startup
Chennai, India
- Built supervised-learning models across 13 notebooks, including Linear Regression, Random Forest classification, and a diabetes-prediction system.
- Practiced data visualization with Matplotlib and end-to-end model evaluation.