I am a Software Engineer at Qualcomm, developing modem data software and leading IP Accelerator driver features for Linux. I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
My research focuses on interpretable AI and strategic reasoning — from causal probing in language models to multimodal fusion for autonomous navigation. I build systems that bridge low-level performance engineering with high-level intelligent decision-making.
Research
I am building interpretable, controllable best-response models to study cooperative, deceptive, exploitative, and escalatory behavior — aiming to isolate escalation signals and intervene to stop spirals in negotiation and wargaming.
- How Reliable are Causal Probing Interventions? IJCNLP-AACL 2025 · earlier version at NeurIPS 2024 IAI Workshop · coming soon
- Texture Oriented, Self-Supervised One-shot Drivable Area Segmentation for Indoor Robot Navigation IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS 2022) · paper
- A CNN Based Vision-Proprioception Fusion Method for Robust UGV Terrain Classification IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IROS/RAL 2021) · paper
- Comparison of Dynamic and Kinematic Model Driven Extended Kalman Filters for the Localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles arXiv preprint · paper
Experience
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2023 — present
Software Engineer, Qualcomm Linux Datapath team — IP Accelerator driver development, crypto offloading for tunnelling protocols, 5G data rate optimization. Led pre-silicon verification on FPGA emulators.
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2021 — 2023
Undergraduate Researcher, IBM-Illinois Centre Multimodal contrastive learning on video, caption, and sound. Built Information Forests using Graph Transformers for discussion-level search.
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2020 — 2021
Software Engineering Intern, Caterpillar Data Innovation Lab — reduced pipeline runtimes by 99%, migrated to AWS/Snowflake cutting costs by 66%. Won 2020 CIO Award.
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2019 — 2023
Undergraduate Researcher, AUVSL Lab, UIUC Generative networks for semantic segmentation, real-time obstacle detection with OCTOMAP, one-shot texture segmentation for autonomous navigation.
B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 · James Scholar, Dean's List.
Projects
- MOMENT Event database and app for multiple universities, serving 1,200+ users and integrated with the official UIUC app. Built with ROKMETRO under Dr. Sanjay Patel.
- Early Wildfire Detection using 5G Massive IoT 3rd place at QHACK (Qualcomm) — two-tiered edge server architecture on AWS enabling high-frequency data collection from millions of sensors while minimizing storage costs.
- AIR Best financial hack at HackIllinois, presented by Capital One — tracks fingers to create and sign usable checks in the air, using Google Cloud Vision and Checkbook.io.
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