Experiences

Multimodal Humor Understanding, Research Assistant | Jun 24 - Present

Built a dataset of 30,000 comics through responsible web scraping (selenium and beautiful soup) whilst protecting identifiable information in the dataset.
Applied a combination of OCR and Computer Vision techniques like morphing (erosion and dilation) and image segmentation (adaptive thresholding) using OpenCV to separate the individual panels for annotations.
Designed and executed the experiments, methodologies and evaluations for both LMMs and humans for a comparative study.

NLP Research Intern | Aug 23 - Dec 23

Utilized quantized versions of state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) from HuggingFace such as Code Llama to analyze and detect code vulnerabilities in open-source software.
Explored and applied recent advances in research such as the “Graph of Thoughts” to encourage logical reasoning in LLMs, leading to significant improvements in detecting code vulnerabilities.
Extensively used tools and libraries such as LangChain to develop applications that integrate LLMs and perform Retrieval Augmented Generations (RAG).

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Sep 22 - Dec 22

Taught small groups (4-5 per group) of students in the 10.014 Computational Thinking for Design module.
Graded home assignments and lab work (programming a Raspberry Pi microcontroller) and maintained student records.
Assisted faculty with the preparation of 20 unique questions for upcoming classes that test students on their coding (Python) abilities - search algorithms, functions and object-oriented programming questions.