01 / 13
Competition · Pittsburgh, PA
Second place at the IROS 2026 Robotic Origami Challenge
I entered on my own, as team AxisTilted2. In the final in Pittsburgh, my policy folded the first two stages of a paper plane with two robot hands.
Timeline
From electrical engineering and chip design to AI research—with a startup, some competitions, and a few detours along the way.
2024 – now
San Jose
Applied AI research at eBay.
02 / 13
Competition · Online
First on both tracks of the NeurIPS 2026 RealPDE competition
I finished the development phase first on both tracks, steering a fleet of AI agents while I travelled to IROS in Pittsburgh. The final phase retrains every finalist from scratch, and results come out on November 10.
03 / 13
Competition · Pittsburgh, PA
Fifth in the Tartan IMU Challenge at IROS 2026
Chin and I placed fifth of 131 teams. One model had to estimate velocity from one second of raw motion-sensor data, across a car, a legged robot, a drone and a walking person.
04 / 13
Competition · San Diego, CA
First place at the NeurIPS EAI Challenge
Chin and I won first place in the NeurIPS 2025 Embodied Agent Interface Challenge, as team AxisTilted2. We built language-model agents that reason about physical tasks in simulated environments.
05 / 13
Work · San Jose, CA
Joined eBay as an AI researcher
I joined eBay’s Knowledge Extraction team in April 2024, where I research and build language-model systems for information extraction. I was promoted in October 2025.
2022 – 2024
San Diego
MS in computer science at UC San Diego.
06 / 13
Education · San Diego, CA
Completed my MS at UC San Diego
I completed an MS in computer science at UC San Diego, working with Julian McAuley’s group on AI music and language models and TA’ing recommender systems and data mining.
07 / 13
Research · San Francisco, CA
A UIST award for turning papers into zines
ZINify, which Jaidev Shriram and I built, received an Honorable Mention at the UIST Student Innovation Contest. It uses language models to turn research papers into illustrated zines.
08 / 13
Startup · San Diego, CA
A writing-assistant startup at UCSD’s StartR accelerator
I co-founded Glyp, a writing assistant for novelists, and took it through UCSD’s StartR Rady accelerator. It didn’t make it to market, and I wrote about what went wrong.
09 / 13
Work · San Jose, CA
A summer research internship at eBay
I spent the summer researching information extraction at scale with eBay’s Knowledge Extraction team.
10 / 13
Competition · San Diego, CA
Won the eBay ML Challenge: first of 591 teams
I placed first of 591 teams in the eBay University Machine Learning Challenge, extracting named entities from product titles with DeBERTa-v3 and K-fold ensembling. The result, announced in January 2023, led to the summer research internship.
11 / 13
Education · San Diego, CA
Moved from chip design to computer science at UCSD
I started the MS at UC San Diego after three years in chip design.
2019 – 2022
Bengaluru
Chip design at Texas Instruments.
12 / 13
Work · Bengaluru, India
Three years designing chips at Texas Instruments
I spent 2019–2022 on ASIC digital design at Texas Instruments: physical design, RTL, and getting actual chips out the door.
2015 – 2019
Surathkal
Electrical engineering at NIT Karnataka.
13 / 13
Education · Karnataka, India
Electrical engineering at NIT Karnataka
I graduated in electrical and electronics engineering. I got into deep learning through Kaggle, earning silver and bronze medals. My thesis on power-quality classification won a best-paper award at IEEE DISCOVER, and the Amateur Astronomy Club gave me a place to explore astronomy.
