About Me
Hello! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science Department at Harvard University advised by Professor Finale Doshi-Velez and Professor Susan Murphy. My primary research focus is designing and deploying reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for real-world systems.
Before coming to Harvard, I was a Technical Lead at Amazon, developing on backend, desktop, mobile web, and mobile app (native and react native) platforms for the configurable, contextual and personalized navigation experience for Wholefoods Market, Prime Now, & Amazon Fresh.
News
February 2024 - Our Oralytics protocol paper has been accepted and published in the Contemporary Clinical Trials journal!
November 2023 - I received a scholarship from the Global Symposium on AI in Dentistry hosted by Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
September 2023 - The RL Algorithm we developed is officially running in the Oralytics clinical trial!
June 2023 - I am extremely grateful to be back at Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern on the Alexa AI team. I worked on improving personalization for LLMs using supervised and RL-based methods.
June 2023 - I was invited to Two Sigma’s Soho HQ for the PhD Symposium to present our work on reward design.
February 2023 - I gave a full-length oral presentation at AAAI 2023 in the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23) Medical session.
November 2022 - I gave a mDOT webinar on Designing Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Mobile Health (video here).
November 2022 - Our paper Reward Design For An Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Supporting Oral Self-Care (arxiv version here) has been accepted to IAAI 2023!
October 2022 - I am grateful for the opportunity to represent Harvard Engineering at the Ivy Collective Symposium hosted by University of Pennsylvania.
July 2022 - Designing Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Digital Interventions: Pre-implementation Guidelines (paper here) has been accepted and published to the Algorithms journal!
July 2022 - I am grateful to have received the Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award from Harvard University.
June 2022 - I presented our work Designing Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Digital Interventions: Pre-implementation Guidelines in a full-length oral presentation at the RLMD 2022 Conference
May 2022 - I am grateful to have received the RLDM 2022 Student Travel Fellowship!
February 2022 - The patent on Item identification based on receipt image filed while I was a Software Developement Engineer at Amazon was issued!