Hi! I am a graduate student at Yale University, pursuing a M.S. in Computer Science.

My interests lie in the intersection of mathematics and computer science. I am particularly drawn to deep learning and natural language processing.

I also love to play sports, watch movies, and listen to music.

📚 Education

• Yale University (MS)

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BS)

💼 Experience

• 2025: DUMAC, Analyst
• 2024-25: COMP 210/211/311, TA
• 2023-25: UNC NLP, Researcher
• 2023: Launch Chapel Hill, S23

📝 Publications

ACL 2025 INTERACT: Enabling Interactive, Question-Driven Learning in Large Language Models

• Aum Kendapadi, Kerem Zaman, Rakesh Menon, Shashank Srivastava
• This paper explores how LLMs can transition to interactive, question-driven learning through student-teacher dialogues.
• arXiv | GitHub | Google Scholar

👨‍💻 Projects

Classmate: Schedule classes with friends

Waffle: Chat with YouTube videos

Verdit: Use AI to evaluate your AITA stories

NLPoker: Play poker with LLMs

uncGuessr: Guess where photos were taken at UNC

Tunetones: Create album cover color palettes

• Spotifind: Generate ML music recommendations
• Twitiment: Analyze the sentiment of tweets using NLP
• Wikipath: Connect Wikipedia articles using bidirectional search
• Digitect: Teach a computer to read handwriting
• Fractastic: Create Markovian Lindenmayer systems
• Flowscape: Simulate fluid movement with Perlin noise on vector fields
• Enigma: Configure an Enigma machine with plugboard and rotor functionality
• Vigenere: Decrypt Vigenere ciphers using a Kasiski examination