Journey

How it all played out

2019–2020

  1. Beginning

    Technovation sparked the journey

    I started building with the Technovation Organization. Java was the first language I loved, and with Team TechnoCrunch I made a customer-to-customer app for recycling books.

  2. Personal Achievements

    Personal achievement

    CISCE Karnataka basketball captain

    Captain of the CISCE Karnataka Basketball Team; the state team won gold at the Sub-Junior National Basketball tournament.

2020–2021

  1. Community project

    Evolving Teens

    Created a mental health support app for teens. The project received UNESCO recognition, and I received goodies as the raffle winner.

2023–2024

  1. Project

    FinLitter, first version

    Started the first version of FinLitter through buildspace and had an absolute blast making it.

2024–2025

  1. Hackathon

    Spooktacular Solutions

    My first introduction to LLM wrappers. Our team built a medical drug recommendation chatbot.

  2. Published research

    Psychoactive substances: identification and classification

    Research on identifying psychoactive substances and their effects, published at CSITSS 2025.

  3. Published research

    Contour and Hough-transform tracking on an RC car

    Compared classical computer-vision tracking approaches on an RC car. This collaborative research was presented at WCONF 2025.

  4. Academic research

    Optimized synthesis of gold nanoparticles

    An ongoing study on using machine learning predictions to guide gold nanoparticle synthesis.

  5. Academic project

    Facial emotion detection

2025–2026

  1. Research extension

    Visual-first residual correction for DECA

    Extended 2D-to-3D facial reconstruction with a three-layer residual MLP over a frozen backbone, FAN landmark labels, and hard-case-weighted sampling. The corrected model runs through four real-time webcam pipelines.

  2. Project

    Agentic speech-based scam detection

    Worked on a speech-processing project for scam detection.

  3. Robotics

    Planar robot-arm writer

    Worked on a three-degree-of-freedom planar robot arm that writes.

  4. Hackathon

    Novo Nordisk Hackathon finalist

    Finalists among the top 6 teams out of 51 across India.

  5. Personal Achievements

    Personal achievement · leadership

    Vice Chair, IEEE Women in Engineering

    July 2025–August 2026

    Organized technical talks featuring professionals from Oracle, Schneider Electric, JPMorgan Chase, and the Indian Administrative Service. Led and coordinated more than six technical and outreach events with 1,000+ participants during the 2025–2026 academic year.

  6. Personal achievement · professional experience

    Intern, 314e Corporation

    December 2025–January 2026

    Built a retrieval-augmented generation system for querying large-scale patient medical records using SQL metadata retrieval, semantic chunking, transformer embeddings, and vector search. Implemented source-page highlighting for explainability while reducing hallucinations and collaborating on production-oriented software workflows.

2026–2027

  1. Current learning goals

    More to learn and build

    Make good progress on FinLitter, learn OCaml, get into competitive programming and quantitative finance, and stay open to internships.