Team Lead — AI Evaluation & Agent Benchmarking
Leading a team of data scientists that builds and runs the data and evaluation infrastructure behind frontier AI and agentic systems — designing the pipelines that turn model-interaction data into structured benchmarks, and the quality controls that keep large-scale evaluation trustworthy. Engaged as an independent contractor.
DIA Associates
Analyst · New York, NYEmbedded with the Global Commercial Services division of a Fortune-500 payments company as a management-consulting analyst:
• Built ML forecasting models (regression, decision trees, random forest) that lifted customer-spend targets ~30% YoY.
• Developed an SVM classifier (~90% accuracy) to gauge genuine customer engagement from managers' ad-hoc reporting.
• Automated divisional reporting into a single-source-of-truth data pipeline — customer-data visibility up 100%.
UVA · Biocomplexity Institute
Data Science for Public Good Fellow · Arlington, VA• Led 2 interns building an NLP pipeline (BERT/RoBERTa models) to classify innovation from news for the National Science Foundation. Learn more.
• Built an Arlington County park-access equity dashboard with the county government. Learn more.
Rewind — this fellowship's last day was Friday, Aug 6, 2021; DIA began the following Monday, Aug 9. The research years start here.
The World Bank
Data Publication Intern, DIME · Washington, DCCleaned, wrangled, and translated (Portuguese → English) country-governance survey data — 3 datasets, ~3,200 variables — in STATA, for analysis of irrigation-led development in Mozambique.
Georgetown · Massive Data Institute
Washington, DCBuilt an AWS Lambda OCR pipeline parsing DC housing-eviction court records into a structured dataset, supporting analysis of the socio-economic factors behind DC evictions.
Georgetown University
Teaching Assistant — Intro to Data Science (Prof. Brodnax) · Washington, DCSupported instruction and mentored students for the graduate Introduction to Data Science course.
The World Resources Institute
Data Science Intern, Climate · Washington, DCCompiled disparate sources into a normalized dataset quantifying water use of ~500 thermoelectric plants across North America & Europe.
Georgetown University
Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. C. Christine Fair · Washington, DC• Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in Small Wars & Insurgencies (2021): Did India's demonetization policy curb stone-pelting in Indian-administered Kashmir?
• Companion article at Gateway House (2021): Linking demonetization and stone-pelting.
• Created a stone-pelting time-series dataset for J&K — 608 Harvard Dataverse downloads.
• Tabulated Pakistani household-survey data in STATA (education vs. income).
Georgetown University
MS, Data Science for Public PolicyMcCourt School of Public Policy. Coursework spanning statistics, data science I–III, data visualization & GIS, massive data, and computational linguistics — with the merit-based Graduate School Financial Aid Award.
The communication & leadership thread continued here: teaching assistant (above), SAPRI Treasurer, and GradGov Senator.
Mumbai University
BE, Electronics & TelecommunicationWhere the communication & leadership roots took hold — ~50 Model UN conferences and two years (2017–2019) as a freelance communication-skills trainer at SkillSphere Education.
Hall of Fame (2018–19); built a Bluetooth-controlled Arduino medication dispenser; Debate Coordinator running 1,000+-participant conferences.
