Research experience

May 2026 - Aug 2026Boston, MA

IBM Research, Core AI Team

Research InternMentor: Akash Srivastava

  • Developing modular AI-agent harnesses for scientific discovery, comparing orchestration, structured search, memory, and role-based components under matched backbone, interface, and compute budgets.
  • Studying where humans should intervene in agentic scientific workflows, with focus on failure modes, task boundaries beyond current agent capability, and help-seeking policies that elicit useful human input.
Aug 2024 - PresentDurham, NC

DukeNLP, Duke University

PhD StudentAdvisor: Monica Agrawal

Understanding LLM dynamics as a function of pretraining data

  • Studying how pretraining data shapes clinical LLM behavior and probabilistic knowledge.
  • Developed corpus-based probabilistic baselines that complement LLM diagnostic reasoning.

Interpreting Dataset Shift in Clinical Notes

  • Developed SIReNs to explain dataset shifts in clinical notes; extending this work to agent-based shift analysis.
May 2023 - June 2024Los Angeles, CA

Melady Lab, University of Southern California

Research AssistantAdvisor: Yan Liu

Large Language Models for Time Series Forecasting

  • Developed GPT4MTS to combine time series and text for multimodal forecasting.
  • Developed TEMPO with trend decomposition and adaptive prompting for forecasting under distribution shift.
Aug 2022 - PresentLos Angeles, CA

GLAMOR Lab, University of Southern California

Research AssistantAdvisor: Jesse Thomason

Initializing Adapters with Improvised Knowledge for Multimodal Continual Learning

  • Studied adapter-based knowledge transfer for continual visual question answering to improve forward transfer and reduce forgetting.