20 // disciple of experience
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<aside> 🐻 MS CS at Brown University 2026 (on leave)
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<aside> 🏫 BS CS at Michigan State University 2024
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<aside> 🇮🇳 Born in India.
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<aside> 🌉 Currently in Palo Alto, CA.
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<aside> 🇺🇸 F1 visa, aiming for O1.
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<aside> 🖋️ Studio Engineer Intern 2024 → 2024 Developed Ultra, an AI-powered email assistant at Founders, Inc.
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<aside> 👨🏫 Teaching Assistant 2023 → 2024 Taught CSE 231 - Intro to Python at Michigan State University to a 40-student class weekly.
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<aside> 🔐 Research Assistant 2023 → Present Secure and Intelligent Things (SEIT) Lab. Researched LLM security. Authored Jailbreaker in Jail, accepted to the 10th ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD). Developed an AI TA for CSE 320 by training it on past discussion posts and information on the course website.
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<aside> 👓 Insight 2024 Had a Raspberry Pi laying around and built an AI wearable at the Google x MHacks AI Hackathon in a weekend. Insight uses Gemini 1.5 Pro to answer questions based on what you see and hear, and it remembers those memories for you.
Won 5th out of 65 projects. Twitter/X post went viral and got over 600k views. GitHub repo got over 280 stars.
🥇 5/65 at Google x MHacks AI Hackathon
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<aside> 🎨 Color Season 2024
Saw a viral reel about color season and decided to spend my Sunday learning color theory and building a website for it.
Color Season Me | Discover Your Perfect Colors
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<aside> ✏️ YouLearn 2023 → Present Co-founder and CEO. Building a personalized AI tutor with generative AI. Got together a 4 person team, learned to work together, and built the MVP over the summer.
I taught myself full-stack development, design patterns for object oriented programming, LLM integration with retrieval based generation, Docker containers, AWS for S3, SES, Lambda, and ECR, GCP Cloud Run for hosting, and more, all from scratch.
YouLearn has 10,000+ users, funding from Michigan Virtual, and a pilot with Stride Learning (public company with $2B valuation).
Former Troy student looking to specialize AI for students
EdTech Pitch Contest | Michigan Virtual
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<aside> ⛰️ buildspace 2023 → Present 6 week school to build your idea. Started YouLearn during this time. Graduated nights & weekends s3 and s4.
buildspace (@_buildspace) on X
The buildspace s4 cohort at Fort Mason in SF.
Farza signing my poster at buildspace.
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