I am currently a 3rd-year (Junior) at UIUC studying computer science. My primary interest now lies in AI, though I used to be very involved in web programming. Through these past few years, I’ve been working as a software developer at various companies specifically in web technology.

My first development experience was for an open-source (now defunct) game engine in PHP/MySQL with a friend. Summer of 2008 I interned at a web design firm, eMagid, in Manhattan, and the summer of senior year I worked for InDinero where I created their alpha for their analytics feature. Fall of 2009 I developed at a startup on campus making version control for music called Merge.fm, and that summer I was hired by the open-source enterprise web portal Liferay. During Summer 2011 I worked for Mozilla Corporation on the Tools and Automation team. My projects included an automatic regression finder, a dynamic build server using AWS (EC2), and statistical dashboards and data APIs. I will be returning to the same team at Mozilla this coming summer.

In school, I was awarded the 50 for the Future 2010 undergraduate award for the fifty most promising technology students in the state of Illinois. I also won Yahoo Hack Day @ UIUC 2010 with my partner Karan Parikh designing an iClickr replacement using SMS. We were also a runner-up in Facebook’s first annual Hackathon@UIUC with “Best use of a fast-fourier transform” (we did a voice-authentication algorithm in Java). My friend Karan and I also participated in Mozilla’s World Series of Hack 2011, where we built Rapsynth, a clone of the popular music service Turntable.FM using NodeJS. We also participated in Linkedin’s First Annual Intern Hack Day, where we were a finalist and developed Sherlock, a simple “artificial intelligence” that could answer queries through speech including simple arithmetic and information queries. I placed 2nd at Yahoo Hack Day @ UIUC 2011 with an AI called Ada which was a rewritten and improved version of Sherlock capable of geolocation and with connections to various web APIs. I hope to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in CS in 2013.

I have conducted research as an undergraduate at University of Illinois’s Siebel Center. Our topic of interest was BCI and creating a human-computer interface via EEG to command a browser. Our research result was presented in this video.

My interests include programming, cooking, reading, listening to music, piano improv, faith, and writing down my whimsical thoughts. My disinterests include politics and strongly typed programming languages.

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