About me

I am a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Knightscope, where I own the end-to-end AI/CV stack across a fleet of 100+ autonomous security robots deployed at 50+ clients nationwide. I joined Knightscope as the company’s sole ML engineer in 2021 — fresh out of my Master of Science in Information Systems at Northeastern University, where I concentrated in Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition and researched Interpretability in Image Classification with Dr. Nik Bear Brown at AI Skunkworks. Five years in, I’m still building computer vision systems for the real world.

My day-to-day spans edge object detection (people, faces, vehicles, license plates, thermal targets), real-time video pipelines on Nvidia Jetson devices, and model optimization — quantizing detectors to INT8/FP16 with TensorRT to ease edge resource usage and cut bandwidth and cellular costs across the deployed fleet. Most recently I’m leading the AI/CV stack inside the K7 ICM (Intelligence Control Module) on Knightscope’s next-generation robot, developed against NIST 800-53 security controls. The thread through all of it is what continues to pull me in — shipping vision systems that work outside the lab: under low light, occlusion, real network constraints, and real compliance requirements.

When I am not coding or working on anything related to vision, I love reading psychological-fictional books; books which help to stimulate the right half of my brain, the creative one. The power which lies inside thoughts is far beyond ones imagination and it is one of the things which mesmerizes me the most. I truly believe this quote:

“A Man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes” - Mahatma Gandhi

While my life revolves around tech and books most of the time, I have a special space for culinary art and love cooking or experimenting on new cuisines. My mother instilled in me this crazy love for food, as she enjoyed serving others via her culinary art; and I try to carry forward that tradition of giving back and strive to reciprocate her teachings in my life.

I also, happen to explore places every now and then. Every place has its own story and I feel sharing personal experiences with others helps them in the longer run. I am a Google Maps Local Guide and I share my views on Google Maps for the places I visited while exploring. I see Google Maps as a treasure map, with places as markers to be explored, each revealing a new story. While most of the places exist on the map, there are many new local businesses which are yet not recognized and after having stumbled across them, I end up adding them on the Map. I strongly believe there is no greater joy, then the joy of giving back.