Research

Applied ML research in NLP, development economics, and recommender systems.

In-Context Learning Robustness via Curriculum Learning

In-Context Learning Robustness via Curriculum Learning

2025

UC Berkeley (EECS 282)

Trained GPT-style Transformer models to study robustness of in-context learning under noisy demonstrations across synthetic regression and NLP benchmarks. Evaluated curriculum-based noise schedules on GPT-Neo 2.7B and Llama-2 7B.

Paper: Robustness of In-context Learning via Curriculum LearningCode

Neural Language Modeling & Text Classification

2026 (ongoing)

UC Berkeley (CS 288)

Built neural n-gram and MLP-based language models from scratch, including tokenizer, dataloaders, and training pipelines. Achieved ~80–82% accuracy on 20 Newsgroups classification with optimized architectures.

Carbon-Aware Product Recommendations

2026 (ongoing)

UC Berkeley (EECS 294)

Studied Pareto frontier between user engagement and lifecycle carbon footprint in large-scale recommendation systems. Trained BPR and SASRec models (RecBole) and applied linear carbon-aware re-ranking policies.

Seasonal Healthcare Accessibility Modeling (Zambia)

2026 (ongoing)

UC Berkeley (INFO 288)

Modeling barriers to healthcare access using DHS survey data (16k+ responses) combined with geospatial travel-time, rainfall, and infrastructure data. Achieved Spearman ~0.53 and identified key drivers of access inequality in rural regions.

Connectivity and Data Management for Environmental Monitoring

2025

NTNU x NINA

Bachelor thesis project developing a scalable system to manage and visualize passive acoustic environmental data, improving automated biodiversity monitoring workflows.

Paper: Connectivity and Data Management for Environmental Monitoring