Writing
Essays on design, engineering, and building meaningful things.
Latest Essay · February 2026 · 8 min
Trying to Break the LLM Safety Barrier
My mission? See if I could get Google's Gemini or ChatGPT to give me genuinely dangerous advice. Not the 'don't try this at home' kind, but the 'this could literally harm my health' kind.
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January 2026 · 7 min
Women in STEM: Advocacy Through Action
How to create meaningful change for women in STEM through mentorship, community building, and inclusive design practices.
December 2025 · 12 min
SEAS Search: Building a Knowledge Graph-Based Course QA System
How we built an intelligent course question-answering system using Knowledge Graphs and LLMs to solve the problem of multi-hop reasoning in academic advising.
June 2025 · 6 min
Bridging the Digital Divide with AI
Exploring how AI-powered platforms can create meaningful impact in developing regions and empower underrepresented communities through technology.
May 2025 · 10 min
Can a Generalist Model Learn to Specialize? Three Experiments with SAM
We took Meta's Segment Anything Model and tried to make it better at three specific tasks. One experiment made the model 36% worse. One improved it modestly. One was a breakthrough — and ended with a trip to the Smithsonian Zoo.
March 2025 · 8 min
The Intersection of UX and Machine Learning
How human-centered design principles can guide the development of more ethical and accessible AI systems.
October 2024 · 5 min
From Nepal to DC: A Journey in Tech
Reflections on growing up in Nepal, experiencing the digital divide firsthand, and pursuing computer science in the United States.
May 2018 · 2 min
happiness..
Taking time out for yourself, to be alone with yourself, to know your weaknesses and your strengths and to make yourself a better person is satisfying.
May 2017 · 3 min
Life
Life is not as easy as you dream it to be. Complications, vibes of giving up, sarcasm of people, demotivation from your loved ones, it comes eventually.