🧠 Neuroscientist Turned Machine Learning Engineer I'm passionate about AI Safety, LLMs, RecSys, and Personalization.

Experience

SpotifyMachine Learning Engineer I

2025 — Now

Music Personalization

Cornerstone OnDemandSoftware Engineer

2025 — 2025

San Francisco, California, United States

Cornerstone OnDemandMachine Learning Engineer

2024 — 2025

Building LLM safety guardrails and backends for GenAI products for 125M+ users across 4k+ clients

Computational Neuro-Rehabilitation LaboratoryMachine Learning Researcher

2021 — 2025

Los Angeles, California, United States

Published Paper on Personalization: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00046.2025 (Oct 2025, 2nd Author)

Projects: Optimizing Stroke Rehabilitation Schedules, Recovering Motor Learning Parameters using Bayesian Modeling, Optimal Experimental Bayesian Design

USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in SocietyDeep Learning Researcher

2021 — 2024

Recognition: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/11/leveraging-machine-learning-to-detect-middle-ear-diseases/

Projects:

1. Computer Vision CNN Ear Health Classification- Pytorch (current)

2. Computer Vision Transfer Learning Sepsis Diagnosis Tool- Tensorflow

3. Natural Language Processing Translator for Endangered Chibcha Language- Pytorch

4. Natural Language Processing Sarcasm Headlines Detector- Pytorch

5. Natural Language Processing Music Genre Identifier- TensorFlow

Education

University of Southern California

Master's degree

University of Southern California

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Education

Master's degree

Bachelor of Science - BS

Experience