Resume

Work Experience

Data Scientist / Institutional Data Engineer @ University of Southern California — Office of Institutional Research (OIR)

Oct 2025 – Present

  • Designed and implemented robust ETL pipelines to integrate diverse institutional data sources, including admissions, financial aid, and enrollment.
  • Developed complex SQL queries and Python scripts for data extraction, transformation, and cohort validation to ensure compliance with federal reporting standards (IPEDS).
  • Responded to ad-hoc data requests from university leadership by aggregating and analyzing data, and debugging inconsistencies in historical enrollment information.
Security Engineer Intern @ Lumina AI Health Institute

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

  • Conducted vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on web applications and cloud infrastructure, identifying and documenting critical security risks.
  • Developed and deployed NLP pipelines to extract structured clinical entities from unstructured EHR notes, improving data retrieval efficiency.
  • Engineered data validation and sanitization processes to ensure HIPAA compliance and protect against data leakage vectors.
Cybersecurity Analyst @ SISA Information Security

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Performed comprehensive security audits for clients, ensuring compliance with industry standards like PCI DSS and GDPR.
  • Analyzed threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and provided actionable recommendations to clients for risk mitigation.
  • Developed custom detection rules for SIEM platforms based on threat analysis and incident response findings.
Attack Simulation Intern @ SISA Information Security

Sep 2022 – Apr 2023

  • Contributed to red-team exercises by simulating phishing campaigns and analyzing attack pathways in corporate networks.
  • Assisted in penetration testing of web applications, identifying vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection.
  • Documented findings and contributed to the development of remediation reports for clients.
Teaching Assistant @ CS@SC Summer Camps

May 2025 – Jul 2025

  • Mentored high school students in introductory Python programming, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Led weekly lab sessions to provide hands-on coding experience and reinforce core computer science concepts.
  • Graded assignments and provided constructive feedback to help students improve their coding skills.
Media Support Technician

Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

  • Provided technical support for classroom AV equipment and learning technologies.
  • Troubleshot hardware and software issues to ensure smooth instructional delivery.
  • Assisted faculty and students with the use of media resources.
Research Intern @ IIT Kharagpur

Jun 2023 – Jul 2023

  • Conducted research on machine learning models for natural language processing tasks.
  • Assisted in the development of a sentiment analysis tool for social media data.
  • Preprocessed and analyzed large datasets to extract meaningful features for model training.