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Research & Internships

A peek at the papers I've worked on and the teams that trusted me with real problems.

📝 Research Papers

Independent research · Submitted to JEI (2025)

Modeling Antibiotic Resistance Spread in Small Urban Clinics

An agent-based simulation exploring how prescription patterns and patient mobility shape resistance in low-resource clinical settings, calibrated with anonymized regional data.

Public HealthSimulationPython

Mentored research · Under review, high school journal

Sentiment vs. Sentiment: Fine-tuning Small LMs for Regional Languages

Comparing LoRA fine-tunes of small open-source language models on code-mixed Hindi–English social posts to see whether tiny models can rival larger ones for local sentiment tasks.

NLPMachine LearningOpen Source

💼 Internships

Neuronova Labs

Research Intern, Computational Biology

Summer 2025 · 8 weeks

Built a lightweight Python pipeline to cluster single-cell RNA-seq datasets and shipped an internal dashboard the wet-lab team now uses to preview experiments.

Kalpana Foundation

Product & Impact Intern

Winter 2024 · 6 weeks

Owned the volunteer onboarding funnel end-to-end, cut drop-off by 34%, and helped launch a low-bandwidth chapter-tracking tool used across 12 cities.