Education

NYU Abu Dhabi

BS Computer Science — Economics & Mathematics minors

CGPA 3.91 · Cum Laude

2022–2026

Columbia University

MS Data Science (incoming)

2026–2027

Research & Work Experience

Summer Research Assistant, Computational Social Science NYU Abu Dhabi

May – July 2026

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 NYU Abu Dhabi

April 2025 – Present

Studying how AI reshapes labor markets, including audits of large language models and ATS platforms for nationality-based hiring bias.

NLP & Software Development Intern Supreme Court of Nepal

May – August 2025

Led development of an AI-powered legal research tool covering more than 11,000 Nepali case law precedents.

Researcher, Computation and Cognition Lab NYU

August 2025 – Present

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 NYU Steinhardt

November 2024 – Present

Designing gamified educational applications for children with learning disabilities.

Summer Research Assistant, CITIES Abu Dhabi

May – August 2024

Modeled spatiotemporal traffic patterns across five cities; co-authored a paper presented at the UAE Graduate Conference 2025.

Linguistic Data Archiving Assistant NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Department

March 2023 – August 2025

Archived and analyzed a corpus of Dolakha Newar, an endangered language, and trained text-to-speech and speech-to-text models.

Skills

Programming
PythonC/C++JavaScript/ReactRSQL
Modeling
Bayesian InferenceCausal InferenceTime-SeriesDeep LearningRL
Tools
PyTorchTensorFlowStataMATLABTableauGitLaTeX