It started with a survey in 9th grade and a sleepless night spent finding patterns in the responses. That was it — I was gone. Now I'm at Illinois doing this every day, building AI agents that teams actually use, publishing data analyses every week, and planning to do this for a living. The obsession never really stopped.
Born in Chandigarh. Grew up in Dubai. Now at the University of Illinois studying Information Sciences and Data Science, with minors in Computer Science and Economics.
Last summer I built an NLP-powered analytics agent at Kinesso that marketing teams used daily to query large datasets in plain English and get real-time strategy insights. Before that I was inside a Security Operations Center in Dubai watching enterprise systems operate under real pressure.
I also represented the UAE nationally in tennis, captained a cricket team, and published a poetry collection at seventeen. The through-line: I like understanding how things work and finding the pattern underneath.
Languages
ML & Analytics
Visualization & Web
Engineered and deployed an NLP-powered analytics agent adopted by the marketing analytics and in-house tech teams, enabling any business user to query large-scale datasets and receive real-time answers in plain English without writing SQL.
Built the agent to surface top-performing brand insights and auto-generate data-driven strategy recommendations, replacing hours of manual reporting with on-demand analysis.
Developed scalable data pipelines and optimized analytics workflows, integrating the AI agent directly into the mar-tech stack to accelerate decision-making across business units.
Rotated across Security Operations Center (SOC) teams observing real-time threat monitoring, incident response workflows, and enterprise cybersecurity operations across a range of client environments.
Assisted in compliance audits and security assessments to evaluate system vulnerabilities and documentation processes, working directly with senior security engineers.
Contributed to cross-functional discussions on improving mitigation strategy communication and infrastructure resilience, helping translate technical findings for non-technical stakeholders.
Gained firsthand exposure to how enterprise security decisions intersect with business operations — an early lesson in how trust and reliability are products of rigorous process, not just technology.
Built a scheduling engine that generated a complete, conflict-free fixture calendar across 5 tournaments, 84 teams, and 384 league games — resolving 80+ overlapping constraints automatically with zero errors.
A weekly data publication where I pick an industry, challenge a commonly held assumption, and run the numbers to see if it holds. 6 issues published, one per week, each covering a different sector.
Open university data competition hosted by UIUC in partnership with Synchrony Financial. Built end-to-end ML pipelines on an unfamiliar dataset under time pressure and presented findings to a panel of judges.
Internal competition through the Illinois Data Science Club competition team. Rapid prototyping of analytical models under tight time constraints, with a focus on clear insight communication.
A weekly publication where I interrogate industry assumptions with data. No filler — just the numbers and what they actually say. 9 issues published, every single week since February 2026.
Published Me/Who? An Odyssey of Conflicts — a poetry collection exploring teenage identity, emotional conflict, and self-reflection. Writing about data and writing about the human experience turn out to use the same skill: finding the honest thing buried underneath.
Represented the UAE nationally in tennis. Also captained my college cricket team — two completely different sports, same instinct: read the pattern, make the decision fast.
Completed all 8 levels of the Trinity College London Communication Skills certification with Distinction — which explains why I can talk about NLP pipelines to a room full of non-technical stakeholders without losing them.
Looking for data science internships for Summer 2026. Open to roles at the intersection of analytics, AI, and business impact.