Experience & Education

BlueDot Impact · Remote

I investigated when misalignment emerges during RLVR training, by evaluating intermediate checkpoints of open-weight models (OLMo-3) and mapping the onset of misalignment against the capability gains. I am also training linear probes on the checkpoint activations, to test whether the internal signals of misalignment appear before the behavior does. The goal is a cheap early-warning monitor.

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories · Albuquerque, NM

I am building an optical optimizer (an Ising machine) that physically solves the dynamics of the Cahn–Hilliard equation, a partial differential equation. For large systems, this can potentially give a ≥9× gain in both speed and energy cost.

Zetascope LLC · West Lafayette, IN

I developed a low-power, field-deployable pipeline for faint-object detection, running in near real-time on quantum shot-noise-limited images. I also wrote and optimized a custom CUDA C++ kernel for the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, which cut the runtime by ~108×.

Prof. Zubin Jacob's Group, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN

I developed the quantum theory of light-matter interaction in semiconductors with "handedness" in their lattice, and built a full-wave electromagnetic simulation package in C++ (Purdue-PicoMax) for the theory (Phys. Rev. B Letter, Editor's Suggestion). I also worked out the quantum theory for the angular momentum of structured light, which predicts a new, measurable fundamental quantum noise. On the experimental side, I co-designed a cryogenic confocal microscope for single spin-qubit (diamond NV) control and readout.

Prof. Chiranjib Mitra's Group, Dept. of Physics, IISER Kolkata · India

I designed and fabricated on-chip microwave antennas for spin spectroscopy below 10 K (J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.), and built a lock-in confocal microscope to optically manipulate diamond spin qubits.