Projects

Selected work that best represents my technical depth — modeling, implementation, and evaluation.

Research projects

Graph State Networks (GSN)

Persistent, nodewise selective state-space models for graph representation learning. GSN keeps per-node state that persists across propagation steps, giving a scalable alternative to deep message passing.

  • Published in TMLR, 2026 (my first paper).
  • PDF Code

Convergence of Asynchronous SGD for PL functions

Theory and experiments on asynchronous / delayed SGD under the Polyak–Łojasiewicz condition, characterizing convergence behavior between the convex and general nonconvex regimes.

  • Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
  • PDF Code

Applied & course projects

Text-to-Image Synthesis Optimization (UCLA MS project)

Optimized text-to-image GAN architectures under hardware constraints and integrated CLIP embeddings for stronger text conditioning.

  • Achieved FID 9.85 with a 10.6M-parameter generator as a lightweight alternative to larger baselines.

Mini-GPT (TinyStories)

Implemented a small GPT for story generation, including parameter-saving tricks like weight tying.

  • Top-3 token accuracy: ~88.6% on TinyStories.

VOC signature clustering (B.E. thesis)

A machine-learning approach for clustering signatures of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using E-Nose signals — a low-cost alternative to spectrometry.

  • Achieved ~91% accuracy and ~0.89 F1 with a hierarchical pipeline.

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