The Carl Menger Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to doctoral students with training in quantitative methods in a variety of fields including economics, political science and sociology.As a doctoral student, I’ll be delving into the key contributions of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of Economics. I'll explore his marginal utility theory, which redefined the concept of value by focusing on individual preferences and the satisfaction gained… Show more The Carl Menger Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to doctoral students with training in quantitative methods in a variety of fields including economics, political science and sociology.As a doctoral student, I’ll be delving into the key contributions of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of Economics. I'll explore his marginal utility theory, which redefined the concept of value by focusing on individual preferences and the satisfaction gained from consuming additional units. Menger's subjective theory of value and methodological individualism will be central to my studies, emphasizing the role of individual choices in economic analysis. I'll also study his causal-realist approach, which prioritizes real-world observations and causal relationships. Additionally, I'll examine Menger's theory on the natural emergence of money and his critique of the German Historical School. Key texts like "Principles of Economics" and "Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences" will guide my understanding of how Menger’s ideas influenced later Austrian economists such as Böhm-Bawerk, Mises, and Hayek. Show less

The ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Program is an independent research and educational seminar program that connects talented scholars with top mentors in the fields of AI alignment, interpretability, and governance. I will conduct research while also attending talks, workshops, and networking events with other members of the Berkeley alignment research community. The MATS program is an initiative supported by the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and historically by Open Philanthropy.… Show more The ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Program is an independent research and educational seminar program that connects talented scholars with top mentors in the fields of AI alignment, interpretability, and governance. I will conduct research while also attending talks, workshops, and networking events with other members of the Berkeley alignment research community. The MATS program is an initiative supported by the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and historically by Open Philanthropy. I will be mentored by Matija Franklin (Open AI) and Philip Moreira Tomei (AI Objectives Institute) in the AI Governance Stream. As AI continues to evolve, the integration of advanced AI systems into societal frameworks is becoming increasingly prevalent. We aim to develop robust principles that ensure these systems operate in harmony with human values and ethics, preventing adverse outcomes and promoting mutual benefits. Show less

Learning the key ideas in Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of Political Economy and learning how to utilize these ideas in academic and policy research. These three schools combined help create a comprehensive framework to analyzing the social organization, coordination, and prosperity. The Austrian school helps improve understanding of the capabilities of decentralized, emergent orders as well as the limits of centralized monocentric approaches to governing. The Virginia school of… Show more Learning the key ideas in Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of Political Economy and learning how to utilize these ideas in academic and policy research. These three schools combined help create a comprehensive framework to analyzing the social organization, coordination, and prosperity. The Austrian school helps improve understanding of the capabilities of decentralized, emergent orders as well as the limits of centralized monocentric approaches to governing. The Virginia school of thought uses the economic way of thinking to study politics realistically. And the Bloomington school examines the effectiveness of polycentric systems for self-governing systems.My track in the fellowship was "Governance." Here, I study and introspect on National Economic Planning, Socialism, Marxism, and Economic Coordination, Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster, role of Local businesses and public-private partnerships at the time of crisis, disaster, governance, and entrepreneurship, Humanitarian Action and the "Planner's Problem", how humanitarian aids cripples self-sufficiency of a nation and viciously alters the economic DNA of a nation and compromise sovereignty, Classical Liberalism, Mainline Economics, and Social Movements, etc.I utilized these learnings to understand and outline the political economy of AI that navigates the nexus of politics, economics, and technology. Governments grapple with regulation and societal impact, while balancing AI's potential for growth with concerns of job displacement and inequality. Economically, AI promises productivity gains but raises questions about market competition and wealth distribution. Ethical considerations, such as bias in algorithms and geopolitical tensions, further shape this landscape. I believe, understanding these dynamics is crucial for crafting policies that harness AI's potential while addressing its societal challenges. Show less

To promote human resource capacities in the developing countries and to enhancing international understanding and technical collaboration among nations, UNESCO Chair for Science, Technology and Engineering offered thirty (30) fellowships to researchers across the globe.

Worked primarily with the Data Insights and Core Engineering team at Google Cloud PA with a focus on developing and maintaining the ETL SQL pipelines and improving the robustness and strong test coverage and designing test efficacy metrics.

RA at the Multilingual Technologies and Computational Science Lab under Prof. Tayal and Dr. Jain.I adopted user-centered approaches to solving sensitive problems within healthcare and national defense contexts.

My Master's thesis focused on designing therapeutic treatments for Neurological Disorders such as Dementia using Neural Correlates of Motion Processing and the concept of Attentional Blink, done under the supervision of Dr. Sonia Baloni Ray in her Signal Processing and Visual Cognition Lab.Collected, pre-processed, and done signal processing and analysis on continuous EEG data to understand how attention works in human beings when the stimuli is in motion and to detect the presence of… Show more My Master's thesis focused on designing therapeutic treatments for Neurological Disorders such as Dementia using Neural Correlates of Motion Processing and the concept of Attentional Blink, done under the supervision of Dr. Sonia Baloni Ray in her Signal Processing and Visual Cognition Lab.Collected, pre-processed, and done signal processing and analysis on continuous EEG data to understand how attention works in human beings when the stimuli is in motion and to detect the presence of attentional blink in an RSVP task.Toolboxes: MATLAB, EEGLAB, Chronux, Brain Vision Analyser, FeildTrip.Lab: https://sites.google.com/iiitd.ac.in/sonia-baloni-ray/home?authuser=0 Show less

Worked with Mozilla's Fix-The-Internet Spring Lab. Streamlined tasks, user journey, critical features, built prototype for an app to help detect and explain cleanliness levels of the surface.

Worked primarily on the iOS application features for the Photoshop App (Creative Cloud) at Adobe.

Worked with PIs from Stanford's Public Health Care and Social Good Dept. Researched and Designed novel metrics for Ethics and Fairness in Gender Based Violence, analysed downfalls of Risk Assessment Instruments in legal system; Retrospective and Qualitative analysis of a women’s helpline using AI-NLP; Contextual Inquires with helpline users to understand choices and needs.During this work, I also conducted thought experiments, gathering a woman's perspective on safety and privacy, and… Show more Worked with PIs from Stanford's Public Health Care and Social Good Dept. Researched and Designed novel metrics for Ethics and Fairness in Gender Based Violence, analysed downfalls of Risk Assessment Instruments in legal system; Retrospective and Qualitative analysis of a women’s helpline using AI-NLP; Contextual Inquires with helpline users to understand choices and needs.During this work, I also conducted thought experiments, gathering a woman's perspective on safety and privacy, and helped better understand the parameters which, in hindsight, drive your decision making in a social context. This was a study I performed to better understand the Ethics and Fairness in Gender Based Violence. Glimpse: https://sites.google.com/iiitd.ac.in/safetycompass/home Show less

Project: Bware - A safety compass and Imperative for Travellers in DelhiMedia Coverage in The Indian Express: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2019/Dec/01/bware-four-young-students-come-up-with-app-that-aims-to-make-travelling-in-delhi-safer-2069569.html Built a real-time heat map, integrated with Google Maps, to provide Delhi travellers a way to navigate safely and be well-informed about the possible annoyances along their route (crowdsourced). Designed and led… Show more Project: Bware - A safety compass and Imperative for Travellers in DelhiMedia Coverage in The Indian Express: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2019/Dec/01/bware-four-young-students-come-up-with-app-that-aims-to-make-travelling-in-delhi-safer-2069569.html Built a real-time heat map, integrated with Google Maps, to provide Delhi travellers a way to navigate safely and be well-informed about the possible annoyances along their route (crowdsourced). Designed and led experiments for leveraging the human-centered design process to collect data and define clear user requirements for feature prototypes. Show less

Mentor: Louis Jenkins, PhD, High Performance Computing, University of RochesterProject: Chapel Parallel Programming LanguageSummary: Learnt design and analysis of algorithms, object-oriented prototyping, and parallelism. Implemented sorting algorithms in Chapel and studied their performance and comparisons with existing implementation.Blog: https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2018-10-29-team-sectumsempra

Title: Medical Assistant Hindi Language Chatbot for Breastfeeding MothersBuilt an interactive chatbot for breastfeeding mothers in the Hindi language. Collected, extrapolated, and scraped over a 1000 Q/As in Hindi Language. Retrieval-based model used. Proposed a heuristic for best response based on the input and context.Research Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aN0jVzX0KUYehlKpU8fPE7aoSb80TUXa/view

Artistic Style Transfer Achieved artistic style transfer using image processing paradigm, instead of resource-consuming deep neural nets. Accomplished “style synthesis” from the input art styles and fused it with the input images. Tools: MATLAB