| Oct 10, 2026 | 📝 Serving as a reviewer for the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on GenAI for Health (GenAI4Health): Agentic Systems, Clinical Trust, and Future Potential. |
| Oct 08, 2026 | 📚 TA’ing ECE C147/C247A: Neural Networks and Deep Learning at UCLA again this Fall 2026 quarter. |
| Oct 07, 2026 | 🎉 Our paper Teaching LLMs to Recommend and Defer in Underrepresented Epilepsy Care (MANANA) has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026! MANANA learns local anti-seizure-medication prescribing guidance for pediatric epilepsy care in Uganda and defers uncertain cases to specialists. Joint work led by S. Rajesh and K. Sharma with Prof. V. Roychowdhury, R. Mazumder, and collaborators. arXiv · code |
| May 31, 2026 | 🎓 Passed my Ph.D. Preliminary Exam at UCLA — officially advancing in the Ph.D. program! |
| May 04, 2026 | 🤝 Thrilled to share that I’ll be the Academic Mentor for the OpenAI team this summer at the IPAM RIPS program at UCLA (June 22 – August 21, 2026) — partnering with OpenAI to mentor a team of top undergraduates on an OpenAI-sponsored research project. |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 🎉 Our recent paper PANINI: Continual Learning in Token Space via Structured Memory has been accepted to ICML 2026 (poster)! Joint work with S. Rajesh, P. S. Holur, C. Duan, and Prof. V. Roychowdhury. |
| Mar 25, 2026 | 📚 TA’ing M146: Introduction to Machine Learning at UCLA this Spring 2026 quarter. |
| Jan 06, 2026 | 📚 TA’ing ECE C147: Neural Networks and Deep Learning at UCLA in Winter 2026. |
| Oct 20, 2025 | 🎉 Our demo paper on customizing open-source LLMs for medication-attribute extraction across heterogeneous EHR systems has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust, and Policy Compliance! |
| Sep 26, 2025 | 📚 TA’ing ECE C143: Neural Signal Processing at UCLA this Fall 2025. |
| Jan 15, 2025 | 📄 Paper Binary Feature Mask Optimization for Feature Selection published in Neural Computing and Applications. DOI. |
| Jan 06, 2025 | 📚 TA’ing ECE 131A: Probability and Statistics at UCLA in Winter 2025. |
| Sep 23, 2024 | 🎓 Started my M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, joining Prof. Vwani P. Roychowdhury’s group. |
| Jun 15, 2024 | 🏆 Awarded the Bilkent University Research Excellence Award and the Responsible AI Innovation Award (sponsored by MathWorks, FIGES, and Tubitak Sage) at graduation. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Bilkent EEE. |