I am currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Clearfeed, where I am broadly working on using NLP technologies to enable customer support teams to effectively provide support on conversational platforms like Slack — this involves using state of the art ML models to build text classification, question answering, and search systems at scale. More generally, I'm interested in working on research problems at the intersection of Natural Langauge Processing and the Social Sciences, and am always open to collaborating on any interesting research problems in these areas. I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Manipal Institute of Technology in July 2023, and spent a lot of days then doing ML/NLP research — I spent the summer after my third year in Germany as a research intern at TU Darmstadt through the DAAD-WISE Scholarship, under the supervision of Dr. Ivan Habernal, and worked on a project in privacy preserving text generation. In 2021, I also co-authored a research paper with my peers which got published at the W-NUT Workshop in the EMNLP conference.I am a motivated individual with an excellent academic record, and a background in both high quality research and in a fast paced startup environment. In a rapidly evolving field like ML, this allows me to apply latest research insights from the field into industry. I am skilled in writing high quality Python code, have a foundational understanding of the latest NLP developments including in LLMs and methods like retrieval augmented generation, and take great pride in being able to effectively communicate my work to people.