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Research Intern

Qualcomm Institute · Audio Spatialization Lab

Generated personalized HRTFs and digital avatars to evaluate acoustic realism in Space3D VR experiences.

• Created ray-tracing pipelines for individualized spatial audio evaluation.
• Automated avatar generation from 2D images for VR listening experiments.

Junior Data Scientist

UC San Diego Health

Designing a recommendation API that connects students with campus wellbeing services through engagement signals and experimentation dashboards.

• Built intake UX and data pipelines powering rapid prototyping of personalization strategies.
• Launched A/B tests for mental health resource recommendations with campus partners.

Graduate Researcher

Cosman Lab, UC San Diego

Lead VR interview studies to analyze gaze, joint attention, and physiological cues for neurodivergent job candidates.

• Developed multimodal analytics aligning gaze, head pose, and conversational flow in triadic VR interviews.
• Co-authored IEEE TNSRE and ISMAR publications on immersive assessment tooling.

President & Mentorship Lead

UCSD CSE GradWIC

Founded GradWIC mentorship circles and coordinate programming that supports graduate women and non-binary technologists across UCSD.

• Onboarded 40+ mentees across three mentorship cohorts.
• Organized industry panels and skills workshops with partner companies.

PhD

University of California San Diego

Electrical and Computer Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)

• Statistical Learning
• Digital Image Processing
• Data Analysis
• Recommender Systems

B.E.

Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (Data Science)

Best Paper Award

ACM UbiComp/ISWC WellComp Workshop

Recognized for privacy-aware respiratory symptom detection deployed in the wild with low-sampling audio pipelines.

Tapia Scholarship Awardee

CMD-IT / ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

Selected to represent UC San Diego at the Tapia Conference for contributions to inclusive computing communities.

IEEE WISC Scholarship

IEEE Women in Sensors and Communications

Honored for research excellence and leadership in sensing technologies.

Analysis of Gaze, Head Orientation and Joint Attention in Autism with Triadic VR Interviews

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Introduces multimodal analytics that align gaze, head motion, and interviewer behavior to surface support opportunities for autistic job candidates in VR.

Privacy-Aware Respiratory Symptom Detection in-the-Wild

ACM UbiComp/ISWC WellComp Workshop

Demonstrates low-sampling audio pipelines for cough and sneeze detection that preserve privacy and run efficiently on mobile hardware.

Triadic VR Interview Analytics

Created joint attention metrics and visual analytics that flag coaching opportunities for neurodivergent job candidates during VR mock interviews.

• Aligned gaze, head pose, and speech cues across interviewer and candidate streams.
• Released reusable tooling for Cosman Lab’s VR study cohorts.

PulsePal Biofeedback Coach

Developing a conversational agent that pairs pulse oximeter feedback with generative guidance to help users self-regulate before interviews.

• Combines physiological signals with language models for empathetic coaching.
• Pilot testing with graduate student volunteers underway.