Experience

Roles across research, AI product work, teaching, and internships.

Co-Founder · Cybernetic Labs

Mar 2026 – Present · San Francisco, CA

  • Designed and shipped RoboEval's VLM-as-Judge evaluation system (dual-judge mode, Cohen's kappa agreement; 86/86 tests passing).
  • Trained and evaluated a fine-tuned SmolVLA vision-language-action policy on the SO-101 arm for pick-and-place and cube-stacking.
  • Built PackingBench, a simulation benchmark for embodied / VLA manipulation policies on warehouse packing tasks.
  • Conducting mechanistic interpretability research on VLA policies to probe and explain model internals.
  • Extended the sim-to-real pipeline (2-camera SmolVLA deployment, joint-space transfer) and the FastAPI/React evaluation dashboard; collaborated with the CEO on the pre-seed deck.

AI Product & Research Intern · Sentient Labs

May 2025 – Aug 2025 · New York City, NY (Hybrid)

  • Built an internal evaluation suite of 100+ LLM prompts with automated scoring for tool-call correctness and safety-violation rate.
  • Improved feedback-to-ticket latency by 20% via regression harness and iteration notes; shipped 3 tool integrations with engineers.
  • Built a real-time crypto signals dashboard (2–3k lines backend TS, 1k lines frontend React) with latency under 2s for exchange data.
  • Prototyped 'Dobby Mode' agent (300-line Streamlit demo) using Dolphin Mistral; enforced JSON schema to reduce hallucinations.

Research with Prof. Ernest Davis · Visual Common Sense

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · NYU

  • Built a diagnostic benchmark (100 base + 100 counterfactual images; 100 questions + 100 flips) and automatic graders.
  • Evaluated six VLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, LLaVA, etc.) and analysed hallucination/abstention behavior.

Teaching Assistant · Database Design, NYU

Jan 2025 – May 2025 · New York City, NY

  • Led recitations on SQL, MongoDB, Flask/Jinja, and schema design; supported 50+ students via office hours and grading.

ML & Full-Stack Intern · 4mainstreet.ai

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · Fremont, CA (Remote)

  • Built data pipelines for customer voice + text (4,000 records); integrated outputs into a Flutter front-end.
  • Built an evaluation harness to benchmark Llama 3 8B, Gemini, and GPT-class models on 4,000 labeled examples; computed precision/recall/F1 and surfaced failure modes to guide model selection.

Software Engineering Intern (Blockchain & Data) · Scroll.io

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · New York City, NY (Remote)

  • Built a Discord analytics tool for a 20K+ community; automated ingestion into BigQuery and cut manual reporting by 5 hours/week.

Education

New York University

Sep 2022 – Dec 2025 · New York, NY

B.A. Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics. Dean's List (2023–2024, 2024–2025). Coursework: ML, AI, NLP, algorithms, operating systems, cryptography, databases.

St Olave's Grammar School

Sep 2016 – Jun 2022 · London, UK

A levels: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics (A* in each).