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- Trace Curiosity-inference newsletter agent recent
- Feynman-Loop A tool for thought that makes you understand, not offload Python
- av-policy-lab When diffusion planners beat deterministic ones on nuPlan Jupyter
- vit-from-scratch A Vision Transformer built from scratch Python
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av-policy-lab
2026 – present · MS research, Northeastern
nuPlanPyTorchDDPM / DDIMPDM-ScoreA100 / SLURM
A controlled study of when generative (diffusion) planners actually beat deterministic ones on nuPlan closed-loop, and whether that advantage survives once logged playback is replaced with realistic reactive agents. Baselines span behavior cloning, a MILE-style world model, and a VLA-conditioned policy, scored on PDM-Score; DDPM and DDIM are implemented from scratch in PyTorch and trained on A100s via SLURM.
- training loss 0.75 → 0.032
- ~100× faster sampling with deterministic DDIM
- honest failure-mode analysis + reusable harness
view on github →
Laksh.ai
2025 – present
MediaPipeRTMPoseYOLOChromaDBFastAPI
A computer-vision pipeline for basketball jump-shot analysis: a pluggable pose stack (MediaPipe + RTMPose) feeds a canonical 12-joint schema, an 8D kinematic fingerprint is matched against active NBA players via ChromaDB vector search, and an LLM returns coaching feedback. Presented at the YC × Google DeepMind hackathon; won a prize at the AI Prototype to Product hackathon.
- canonical 12-joint schema → 8D fingerprint
- vector match vs active NBA players
- injury-risk: knee valgus, landing, upper-extremity load
view on github →
Vision Transformer from scratch
2025 – present
PyTorchTransformersSentinel-2LEVIR-CD
A ViT built from scratch in PyTorch for bi-temporal urban change detection on Sentinel-2 imagery: patch embedding, positional encoding, multi-head self-attention, and a Siamese encoder with a segmentation decoder, no pretrained modules. Evaluated honestly against tuned CNN baselines on IoU, F1, Dice, precision, and recall.
- ViT: F1 0.82, IoU 0.70
- tuned baselines: U-Net 0.88, Swin 0.86 (F1)
- a clear, reported gap, not a cherry-picked win
view on github →
more
career-ops
Claude CodeNode.jsGo
An AI-powered job-search and application system on Claude Code: 14 skill modes, a Go dashboard, automated PDF generation, batch processing.
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Feynman-Loop
PythonMCPLLM
A tool for thought that makes you understand concepts deeply: you explain a concept, it finds the gap against a trusted source and resurfaces what you don't yet truly know. Built as an MCP server.
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Trace
Multi-LLMAgents
A multi-LLM newsletter agent that infers what you are curious about and assembles a personalized newsletter around those interests.
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TaskRoute
PythonMulti-Agent
An LLM-provider optimization engine ranking providers by task type, budget, switching cost, and reliability risk in a simulated agent marketplace.
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MediTrack
FastAPIReactLVMM
Healthcare-equipment tracking using visual-memory AI for semantic search over surveillance footage. Memories.ai Hackathon.
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CRPO
PythonGroqLlama 3.1
Contrastive Reasoning Prompt Optimization: prompts robust across math, reasoning, fact verification, and code generation.
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experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Foundations of AI
Jan 2026 – present Northeastern University · San Jose, CA
Lead weekly office hours for 30+ students on model reasoning, debugging, and ML evaluation; designed assignments on dataset selection, model architecture, and result interpretation.
Senior Officer, Site Reliability Engineering
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 United Overseas Bank · Singapore
Monitored production banking infrastructure with GENEOS, improving incident visibility by 30%; partnered with DevOps to run scalability checks across AWS and VMware under peak load.
Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 Venti Technologies · Singapore
Tested autonomous prime movers at a Singapore port: lane detection, curb detection, and path-change validation using RViz simulation and LiDAR analysis. Cut testing cycle time by 15%.
education
Northeastern University
Sep 2025 – May 2027 M.S. in Artificial Intelligence · San Jose, CA
GPA 3.92. Graduate Teaching Assistant for Foundations of AI. Focus: machine learning, computer vision, and autonomous systems.
Nanyang Technological University
Aug 2020 – May 2024 B.E. Mechanical Engineering · Minor in Computing & Data Analysis · Singapore
Final-year project on drivetrain condition monitoring earned a Final Year Project Research Award.
research
Next-Generation E-Drivetrain for Automated Mobile Robots: Condition Monitoring
NTU Singapore · Final Year Project · 2024 · FYP Research Award
Condition monitoring of electric drivetrains for autonomous mobile robots, using MATLAB and neural-network models to predict drivetrain performance parameters from sensor data. The study quantified how training-data volume affects prediction accuracy and demonstrated the viability of real-time, multi-parameter drivetrain monitoring.
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stack
- Languages
- Python, C++, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, MATLAB
- ML / DL
- PyTorch, JAX, Transformers, diffusion models, scikit-learn, NumPy, OpenCV, MediaPipe
- Systems / infra
- Docker, AWS, GCP, SLURM / HPC (A100), Git, FastAPI, React
- Domains
- perception, autonomous driving, imitation & reinforcement learning, pose estimation, RAG, LLM agents