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Software Development Engineer II

Amazon Web Services, Applied AI Solutions

• Built a multi-modal video search system that helps ADAS/AV developers surface rare edge cases in petabyte-scale video, sensor and annotation data using plain-English queries, ranking results for model training.
• Primary science contact on the team for time series anomaly detection in predictive maintenance of industrial equipment, evaluating supervised and unsupervised statistical and deep learning models.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services, Applied AI Solutions

• Contributed to an IoT service connecting vehicle fleets to the cloud for over-the-air software updates and data transfer.

AI Researcher

FAIR Lab, Penn State

• Research assistant in the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Research Lab under Dr. Hadi Hosseini, developing AI algorithms for multi-agent systems.
• Bayesian analysis of voter behavior to predict ground truth rankings from partial information.
• Improving context alignment of large language models by enhancing the RLHF pipeline.

Graduate Assistant (part-time)

Penn State Organizational Effectiveness

• Built dashboards giving insights on student enrollments for Penn State World Campus.

Summer Research Assistant

FAIR Lab, Penn State

• Proposed two scalable variants of the Surprisingly Popular algorithm, improving the accuracy of ground-truth ranking recovery via crowdsourcing.
• Proposed a mathematical model of voter behavior and verified it by inferring parameters on real and simulated data with the No-U-Turn Sampler (an extension of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo).

Instructional Assistant (part-time)

Penn State College of IST

• IST 261: tutored, graded, and taught industry-standard coding practices using MVC in Java.

Associate Software Developer

SAP Labs India

• Developed five front-end applications for SAP SuccessFactors, an enterprise B2B cloud application.
• Quality Analyst for one year: oversaw quality standards for six projects and coordinated the SAP SuccessFactors Quarterly Testing Event twice.
• CI/CD contact managing application deployment for ten teams.

Research Intern

Schneider Electric India

• Built a prototype IoT door entry system with real-time text, audio and video communication.
• Developed web and mobile (Android and iOS) support for the suite.

MS

The Pennsylvania State University

Informatics (Data Science concentration)

• Advised by Dr. Hadi Hosseini.
• Thesis: Recovering Ground Truth Rankings When the Majority Is Misinformed. Best MS Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence.

B.Tech

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Computer Science and Engineering

• Advised by Dr. Anup Nandy. Undergraduate thesis: Human Gait as a Cognitive State Predictor, in the Intelligent Computing and Computer Vision research group.
• Student Mentor, Institute Counselling Services (2018 to 2020). Member of the institute football team.

School

St. Paul's School, Rourkela

ISC (Class XII), 96.8%; ICSE (Class X), 97.2%

• Deputy Head Boy (2012 to 2013). School football team, swimming and athletics.

Best MS Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence

Penn State University

Best Master’s Thesis on an AI-related topic within Penn State, at the third annual Penn State AI Awards, judged by a panel of Penn State AI experts.

NeurIPS 2024 Scholar Award

Neural Information Processing Systems

Given to a select group of early-career researchers, with a grant covering registration and travel to attend and present at NeurIPS 2024.

Fast Learner Award

SAP Labs India

National Talent Search Examination Scholarship (All India Rank 245)

NCERT, Government of India

Awarded a national rank of 245 out of about 1 million candidates. Held through undergraduate studies.

Junior Mathematics Olympiad Scholarship (State Rank 8)

Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Government of Odisha

Presented by the Chief Minister of Odisha.