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Experience
Jun 2026 – present
Founding Head of Forward Deployed Engineering · Composio, San Francisco
Building the Forward Deployed Engineering function: taking AI agents into production inside enterprises, on the tool-calling and integration layer that connects agents to more than a thousand apps and APIs.
Oct 2025 – Jun 2026
Founding team & India Lead · K-Dense, Palo Alto
Built agentic AI for scientific discovery: an AI co-scientist that reviews literature, runs analyses, and drafts papers. Co-authored Scientific Agent Skills, an open-source skills library for research agents.
Mar – Apr 2026
Head of Applied AI · Eragon, San Francisco
Built the core product from 0 to 1, led forward deployments into enterprise customers, and set up the applied AI function.
Aug 2024 – Dec 2025
Founding AI Research Scientist · Biostate AI, Palo Alto
Foundation models of biological systems from omics data (RNA-seq, DNA methylation), and the early agentic analysis systems that became K-Dense, including K-Dense Analyst and a first-author paper on multi-agent transcriptomic aging clocks (with collaborators including David Sinclair).
Jun – Sep 2024
Research Consultant · NVIDIA, Remote
Advised on the design of large-scale experiments measuring the effectiveness of generative-AI engineering tools and human–AI alignment.
Summer 2023
Research Scientist Intern · Meta Reality Labs Research, Redmond, WA
Generative and spatial audio rendering for AR/VR, validated with psychophysical studies; demoed two product-ready tools to Reality Labs Research leadership.
2020 – 2025
Graduate Researcher (with Josh McDermott) · MIT, Laboratory for Computational Audition, Cambridge, MA
Auditory intuitive physics: differentiable, physics-based synthesis of impact, scraping and rolling sounds, and psychophysics on what listeners infer from them. Major contributor to physics-based audio in the ThreeDWorld simulator (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab), whose paper cites my DAFx 2021 synthesis model as its first reference.
2018 – 2020
Graduate Researcher (with Nicholas Makris) · MIT, Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing, Cambridge, MA
Ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing: imaging continental-shelf environments and detecting fish shoals from long-range sonar data.
2016 – 2018
Research Assistant (with Sripriya Ramamoorthy) · IIT Bombay, Acoustics & Hearing Lab, Mumbai
Acoustic analysis, design and inverse characterization of periodic rigid foams: CFD, simulation and impedance-tube experiments.
Summer 2016
Research Intern (MITACS Fellow) · Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Machine-learning-based automatic transcription of electronic music, with Arne Eigenfeldt.
Summer 2015
Research Intern (Charpak Fellow) · CNRS, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, Marseille
SoniMove: gesture-controlled sound synthesis with an instrumented drumstick and motion capture.
Education
2018 – 2025
PhD, Mechanical Engineering · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: Synthesis and perception of sounds from physical interactions reveals auditory intuitive physics. Advisor: Josh H. McDermott.
2013 – 2018
B.Tech + M.Tech (dual degree), Mechanical Engineering · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Specialization in Computer Aided Design and Automation, focus on acoustics. Master's thesis: acoustic analysis and design of periodic rigid foams.
Fellowships & honors
- K. Lisa Yang ICON Graduate Fellowship, MIT (2022)
- Nominated, Best Master's Thesis Award, IIT Bombay (2018)
- MHRD Fellowship, Government of India (2017)
- MITACS Research Fellowship (2016)
- Charpak Research Fellowship, Embassy of France in India (2015)
- KVPY Fellowship, IISc (2011) · National Talent Search Scholar (2010)
Service & outreach
- Reviewer: ICLR, ICML, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
- Outreach: Skype a Scientist (2022), MIT Splash (2021); guest on Jim Jefferies' podcast (I Don't Know About That, now At This Moment), episode “Hearing” (2022)
- MIT: founder of MIT Shruti; BCS DEIJ representative; Tang Hall vice president
- IIT Bombay: founded the English Learning Program; senior student mentor