Advised by Stefanos Nikolaidis, I have had the absolute privilege to work alongside extremely talented and brilliant researchers at ICAROS, such as Varun Bhatt and Aaquib Tabrez. Here, I experiment with applications of foundation models to emulate human behavior and am broadly interested in various applications of Quality Diversity algorithms, including (but not limited to) scenario generation and human behavior.
With ICAROS, I have also had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers such as Katia Sycara and Mike Lewis from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh via a DARPA grant. I am grateful to have been supported by USC's Undergraduate Research Associates Program (URAP)!
At InfoLab, I am advised by John Krumm and Cyrus Shahabi. My work has primarily been focused on causality inference and anomaly detection for multivariate time series domains. I am thankful to have been supported by the National Academies for Science, Engineering and Math (NASEM) and CURVE.
I am currently working on identifying traffic slowdowns on highways and how they spread in the Los Angeles road network, a major issue in many big cities. My findings are going to be used by the California Department of Transportation to improve and restructure their highway systems. I am proud and excited to say that my research is going to have a positive impact on countless people across Southern California.
Project Let’s Talk Code (LTC) is an NSF-funded Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) that investigates a novel approach to introducing computer science (CS) to high school students in the Navajo Nation (NN) tribal region in Arizona and New Mexico.
The goal of the RPP is to improve students’ computational skills with a focus on preparing them to succeed in the Advance Placement (AP) computer science courses and motivate them to enroll in CS degrees. The project aims to help math, science and art teachers from NN high schools develop CS based projects in their existing courses and provide mentorship and guidance towards offering AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) courses in the subsequent years.
Working with principal investigators Ashish Amresh and Peter Romine at Arizona State University's Decision Theater and Navajo Technical University, respectively, I was primarily involved in teaching basics in computer science during our PD sessions, leading coding sessions with various teachers, and developing STEM applications that could be used in classrooms to support student learning.