Research
Selected research experience across computational social science, NLP, and human-AI comparison.
Summer Research Assistant, Computational Social Science
May – July 2026NYU Abu Dhabi
Extending the open-source bml R package to model coalition and group-level effects, with an application to labor market dynamics.
Capstone Researcher, Data Science and AI Lab
April 2025 – PresentNYU Abu Dhabi
Studying how AI reshapes labor markets, including audits of large language models and ATS platforms for nationality-based hiring bias.
NLP & Software Development Intern
May – August 2025Supreme Court of Nepal
Led development of an AI-powered legal research tool covering more than 11,000 Nepali case law precedents.
Researcher, Computation and Cognition Lab
August 2025 – PresentNYU
Comparing human and AI question-asking strategies in the game of 20 Questions, using Bayesian Information Gain as a benchmark.
Research Assistant, Special Education Research Project
November 2024 – PresentNYU Steinhardt
Designing gamified educational applications for children with learning disabilities.
Summer Research Assistant, CITIES
May – August 2024Abu Dhabi
Modeled spatiotemporal traffic patterns across five cities; co-authored a paper presented at the UAE Graduate Conference 2025.
Linguistic Data Archiving Assistant
March 2023 – August 2025NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Department
Archived and analyzed a corpus of Dolakha Newar, an endangered language, and trained text-to-speech and speech-to-text models.