Professional Experience
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
University of California, Merced
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
EE021 - Electrical Engineering with Python - (Prof. Ayush Pandey)
· Facilitate lectures for 150 students by demonstrating Python and MIPS Assembly on open-circuit programming.
· Lectured for 65+ hours over 15+ weeks by addressing questions related to circuit design and programming.
· Enhanced student engagement by creating an interactive coding exercises, increasing lab participation by 20%.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of California, Merced
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
A LLM-Based Autograder that enables subjective grading and immediate feedback.
· Improved 300 students grades by 15% for EE021 & ME021 course by providing detailed grading and feedback.
· 15% less compute within the each epoch when fine-tuning by implementing LoRA on LLM-based Autograder.
· Increasing the efficiency by 50% when fine-tuning the Autograder through creating a CSV & JSON data pipeline.
ACM SIG-AI Lead
University of California, Merced
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Association of Computing Machinery, SIG-AI Lead
· Organized and taught bi-weekly workshops on Deep LearningTaught for 50+ students out of 200 active members.
· Machine Learning workshops including creating Multivariate Linear for Regression, and SVM for Classification.
· Deep Learning workshops on creating Multi-Layer Perceptions, Transformers, and LLM from scratch.