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.