• Lead scientist, developing and training both in-house foundational models, as well as leveraging SoTA models for differentiating platform features
• Led Audio-AI team and supervised engineering operations at Soundverse.ai
• Designed and developed novel audio attribution feature to protect artist content from unlicensed training

• Trained large, multimodal models incorporating, image, video, audio, digital context, and natural language for personalized, contextually aware digital agents.
• Developed RAG system, including modeling and evaluation, for end-to-end predictive interface functionality for few-shot action prediction of egocentric video for augmented reality kit
• Developed human/machine alignment benchmarking initiative, including goal classification, prediction, and labeling efforts
• Coordinated group of 8 engineers and researchers to deliver first-of-its-kind dataset, composed of egocentric, longitudinal video, and novel annotations via custom labeling tooling.
• Developed multimodal, semantic search pipeline for automating high-information-yield candidates from unstructured video

• Developed CV projects for Amazon’s consumer image-management app, enabling features scaled to millions of customers:
• Face Recognition, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, Clustering Methods, CNN Classifiers with Semi-Supervised Training, Recommender Systems, Photo Stitching, Annotation Pipelines, Salience and Smart Cropping
• Managed training on datasets of (and inference for) millions of customers, while preserving privacy and ensuring computational efficiency

• Commercial ML applications and general video game development, including research, design, and engineering of a recommender system to drive microtransaction sales of the online store
• Unity prototyping for emerging AI companions

• Courses taught include:
• Orbital & Flight Mechanics, Rocket Propulsion, Flight Test Eng., Electricity & Magnetism, Waves & Optics

Research under Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi

• Independent research of analytical formation-models of heating and cooling flows of intracluster plasma from active galactic nuclei (AGN)

• Focus in computational and theoretical methods in fusion plasmas

• Student and Research Assistant studying the formation of AGN

• Graduated magna cum laude