Research Assistant (HiWi)
Apr. 2026 – PresentEducational Technology Department, Saarland University | Saarbrücken, Germany
SRL Course Platform (Full-Stack, Lead Developer)
- Architected end-to-end adaptive learning platform (React + TypeScript, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL + pgvector); authored ADRs covering authentication, LLM abstraction, and data architecture
- Engineered a Medallion ETL pipeline ingesting PDFs, LLM-driven semantic chunking, and pgvector HNSW indexing
- Implemented hybrid retrieval combining pgvector HNSW vector similarity and BM25 full-text search (PostgreSQL GIN index) via Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), exposed through a FastAPI endpoint
AI Co-Design Platform — Audio-to-Knowledge-Graph Pipeline
- Architected NLP pipeline converting pedagogical audio to knowledge graphs: OpenAI Whisper STT, pyannote speaker diarization, LLM entity and relation extraction
Real-Time Gaze Streaming Optimization
- Optimized WebSocket-based real-time gaze data streaming from Pupil Labs glasses API, reducing end-to-end latency on a custom behavioral data collection tool
React
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
pgvector
FastAPI
RAG
LLM
Research Assistant (HiWi)
Sept. 2024 – Mar. 2025Computational Interaction Group (CIX), Saarland University | Saarbrücken, Germany
- Built automated computer vision pipeline (OpenCV, MediaPipe) processing 50–60 typing videos (5M+ frames); achieved 96% accuracy on hand posture detection, eliminating manual annotation bottleneck for interaction research
- Delivered production-ready dataset and reusable pipeline enabling scalable behavioral analysis for touchscreen/gesture interaction studies
OpenCV
MediaPipe
Python
HCI
Web Developer & UI/UX Intern
Jul. 2022 – Sept. 2023Orion Solutions | Lucknow, India · Hybrid
- Shipped responsive web interfaces (React, HTML, JavaScript) in cross-functional team; managed design-to-dev handoff; integrated REST APIs and database layers (MongoDB, SQL)
React
JavaScript
MongoDB
REST API
UI/UX