About Me

05/2025 – 07/2025	Data Science Fellow, Faculty AI Next-level Hiring: LLM-powered CV Analysis & Candidate Ranking
01/2024 – 04/2025	Freelance Applied Data Scientist, AI for Positive Human and Climate Impact
08/2017 – 08/2023	Graduate Researcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA AI and Signal Processing for Automated Astrophysical Event Discovery
06/2022 – 08/2022	Machine Learning Researcher, Frontier Development Lab USA Time Series Forecast of Earthquake Rates from Underground Carbon Storage
09/2021 – 06/2022	Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA Software Development for Radar Detection from Alien Worlds [Reuters press release] [NPR Podcast]

Programming	Python (PyTorch, scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas, geopandas, xarray, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly), bash scripting, SQL, \(\LaTeX\), HTML
Machine learning	Supervised learning: Linear regression, lasso & ridge regularization Decision trees, random forest Support vector machine \(K\)-nearest neighbors Convolutional neural networks Recurrent neural networks Long short-term memory networks Unsupervised learning: \(k\)-means clustering Gaussian mixture models Reinforcement learning Principal component analysis Batch and stochastic gradient descent, Adam optimization
Software Engineering	Production code development High-performance computing Dagster (data orchestration) Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools: CircleCI GitHub Actions Model delpoyment tools: Weights & Biases FastAPI
Cloud Computing	Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
Operating Systems	Linux, iOS
Geospatial Software	ArcGIS Pro, QGIS
Other Software	Microsoft 365 Suite

Major: Astronomy
Minor: Physics

GPA: 4.0/4.0
Cranson & Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2019)

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune

Major: Physics
Minor: Mathematics

GPA: 9.9/10
Institute Gold Medal (2017)

03/2025	Machine Learning Engineer, AI for Wildfire Spread Prediction in Uttarakhand, India (Omdena Dehradun Chapter)
11/2024	NPTEL Online Certification (Elite + Gold): Reinforcement Learning
05/2024	Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing Certification, GIS Vision India
04/2023	Erdös Institute Data Visualization Mini-course
06/2022	Erdös Institute Data Science Bootcamp

I have been an avid cricket fan since my teenage years. When possible, I attempt to experience major cricketing matches live in stadiums worldwide. My most cherished cricketing memory to date is attending the World T20 final 2022 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

I enjoy destressing from work through board games and food. Gameistry Entertainment (Chennai, India) and Victory Point Cafe (Berkeley, CA, USA) are two personal favorite board game destinations. I maintain here a list of board games I have played since 2020. Hoping to grow this list over time!
I love taking time out of my schedule to appreciate the Earth’s natural wonders. A “dream come true” moment for me was witnessing the dance of the Aurora Borealis (aka the Northern Lights) in interior Alaska in 2022.