Software Development Intern
Criminal Investigation Department - Karnataka
Since August 2025
- Developing an open-source cyber forensic web tool that will be used by law enforcement agencies and police for analyzing forensic dumps (E01, RAW, DD), performing image carving, and categorizing media using machine learning models (YOLOv8, NudeNet, Dlib).
- Designing a modular full-stack architecture with a React-based UI, Python backend, MongoDB storage, and real-time WebSocket updates for streamlined investigator workflows.
Summer Intern
PESU Venture Labs
June 2025 - Present
- Building an Agentic AI workflow to autonomously search, retrieve and summarize research papers from sources like arXiv, enabling rapid extraction of insights using LangChain.
- Conducted market and competitive research on venture-capital backed startups and existing Agentic-AI platforms, identifying limitations in solutions leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Machine Unlearning.
Teaching Assistant
PES University
June 2025 - Present
- Assisting in the course UE24CS251A – Digital Design and Computer Organisation (DDCO), under Prof. Deepti C, Dr. Prajwala T R, and Dr. Rajeshwari B.
- Preparing teaching material, and enhancing lab sessions by designing hands-on Verilog experiments.
Research Intern
Centre of Cognitive Computing and Computational Intelligence (C3I)
May 2024 - August 2024
- Preprocessed and curated datasets to train and validate the neural network, ensuring data quality and relevance.
- Developed and implemented BERT & Graph Neural Networks for detecting hate speech in multilingual social media text, achieving an accuracy of 0.72.
WiE Chair
IEEE Student Branch PESU-ECC
August 2024 - August 2025
- Organized and led a flagship hackathon featuring both traditional hackathon tracks and Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges, achieving the highest footfall and registrations for the Fall Semester 2024.
- Directed workshops focusing on technical skill development and community building.
- Spearheaded recruitment drives, including strategizing, interviewing, and onboarding.
Operations Executive
PESU I/O
August 2023 - June 2024
- PESU I/O is a student initiative under PESU that offers industry-oriented courses and mentoring programs.
- Managed core logistics and marketing of projects, programs, and subsidiaries, impacting many students.
- Led intern recruitment, interviews, and onboarding, ensuring smooth team integration and task delegation.
- Analyzed feedback and statistics using pandas, skikit, seaborn, streamlining processes and enhancing project outcomes.
- Organized green room equipment setup for events, collaborated with teams, and handled scheduling and permissions.