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Current MIT MEng student fueled by a relentless pursuit of knowledge. During my MIT undergrad, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science & AI and B.S. in Business Analytics along with minors in Mathematics and Music.<br><br>
I find joy in the arts of expression, with a focus on writing and music. I value collaboration and building meaningful connections. Today, I intern at Notion as a software engineer, write my blog, and work on building games!
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<h2>research</h2>
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<span class="project-title">MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center</span>
<span class="project-date">2025-present</span>
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Built and applied machine learning optimization models to complex high-dimensional design problems, running physics-driven simulations of stellar-like plasma experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
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<a href="https://futuretech.mit.edu/" target="_blank" class="project-container">
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<span class="project-title">MIT FutureTech Lab (CSAIL x Sloan)</span>
<span class="project-date">2024-present</span>
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Conducting foundation model analysis and determining the effect of AI development on the scientific method and societal impact. Key questions include assessing the accessibility and
democratization of AI in science and evaluating the performance of open-source AI models against established data
benchmarks.
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<span class="project-title">Music Genre Classification with Wavelet-Matrix Hybrid Feature Extraction</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
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Constructed an augmented feature set combining MFCCs with wavelet transforms to improve genre classification. Demonstrated that hybrid features boost accuracy for low-capacity models and offer a richer, more robust representation of musical signals.
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<span class="project-title">Enhancing Robustness in Sentiment Analysis via Colloquial Data
Augmentation</span>
<span class="project-date">2024</span>
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Enhancing transformer-based sentiment analysis models, such as BERT, by integrating informal language variants into training data to improve robustness against slang, misspellings, and emojis.
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<span class="project-title">Small Transformers for Visually Indicated Sounds</span>
<span class="project-date">2024</span>
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Investigating the use of transformer models for video-to-audio sequence generation, optimizing single GPU inference with encoder-decoder architectures across three parameter scales (60M, 150M, 350M).
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<span class="project-title">SSP Orbit Determination</span>
<span class="project-date">2021</span>
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Operating a research-grade telescope remotely to capture images of a near-earth asteroid and calculating its orbital path, including impact probability.
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<h2>tech</h2>
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various groups i am part of and projects i've worked on
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<a href="https://pokerbots.mit.edu/" target="_blank" class="project-container">
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<span class="project-title">MIT Pokerbots</span>
<span class="project-date">2023-present</span>
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President of MIT Pokerbots, a class and competition for students to develop AI bots to play poker variants.
</p>
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<a href="https://battlecode.org/" target="_blank" class="project-container">
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<span class="project-title">MIT Battlecode</span>
<span class="project-date">2023-2024</span>
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Served on Infrastructure team, overseeing the development of the MIT Battlecode platform. Battlecode is a class and competition where participants program bots to play a game of strategy.
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<span class="project-title">Photo Evolution: Conway's Game of Life</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
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An extension of an older project, where I built an interactive Conway's Game of Life with photo initialization.
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<a href="https://visynth.vercel.app/" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
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<span class="project-title">Visynth</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
<!-- A web application built as a personal project for creating audio-reactive visualizations. -->
A web application which uses audio analysis algorithms to generate real-time, interactive visual patterns that respond dynamically to different audio features, creating unique audiovisual experiences.
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<a href="https://www.llnl.gov/" target="_blank" class="project-container">
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<span class="project-title">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</span>
<span class="project-date">2023-2024</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
Spent two summers as a full-stack development intern for the National Ignition Facility, developing internal tools for scientific data analysis.
</p>
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<a href="https://ctftime.org/team/89287" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">RiceTeaCatPanda</span>
<span class="project-date">2020</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
Organized and built RiceTeaCatPanda and HouseplantCTF, cybersecurity Capture the Flag competitions with thousands of participants across the globe.
</p>
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<span class="project-title">Defeating COVID-19</span>
<span class="project-date">2020</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
Founded non-profit organization and created site to help people not lose sight
of one another during the pandemic.
</p>
</a> -->
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<span class="project-title">Legacy Personal Website</span>
<span class="project-date">2020</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
My first venture into the world of web development, designed in 2020 and replaced in 2025.
</p>
</a> -->
<!-- <a class="project-container">...and more coming soon!</a> -->
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see my early projects, including a platform for connectivity during covid-19, a tensorflow chatbot, and more, on my github!
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<a href="./tech" class="inline-link">see more tech projects →</a>
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<section id="writing" class="section">
<h2>arts</h2>
<span class="section-subtitle">
my newsletter, creative writings, writings about music, and musical compositions and performance
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<a href="https://srisaraf.notion.site/meditations-and-musings" target="_blank" class="project-container">
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<span class="project-title">meditations & musings</span>
<span class="project-date">2025-present </span>
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a newsletter and series of posts documenting my life experience, from shallow one-off thoughts to exploratory contemplations.
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19rIJjX9QNED3fo5Et7Pxmax66Ydutl8t?usp=sharing" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
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<span class="project-title">A Lack of Waves</span>
<span class="project-date">2026</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
A string quartet composition performed live as a capstone, encapsulating the feeling of being adrift unfortunately.
</p>
</a>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vw3orJ2DO6WTmesV7ae1kUm1x_R8tZp8?usp=drive_link" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">Parking Garage Cat</span>
<span class="project-date">2026</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
A partimento composition exercise in harmony and counterpoint. It follows a cat's journey through a supposedly-abandoned parking garage.
</p>
</a>
<a href="https://srisaraf.notion.site/Charlie-Parker-s-Revolutionization-of-Jazz-Foundations-in-Ornithology-1caf77527f7980249e37eb354e64cbe4?pvs=4" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">Charlie Parker's Revolutionization of Jazz: Foundations in Ornithology</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
Charlie Parker's 1946 Dial recording of "Ornithology" demonstrates bebop's revolutionary approach to transforming jazz from within.
</p>
</a>
<a href="https://srisaraf.notion.site/Bridging-Cultures-How-88rising-Redefined-the-Global-Music-Scene-157f77527f798043bde9f731d44de900" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
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<span class="project-title">Bridging Cultures: How 88rising Redefined the Global Music Scene</span>
<span class="project-date">2024</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
Exploring the intersection of Asian and Western music through artist stories and 88rising's cultural milestones.
</p>
</a>
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<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">Why La La Land Can Be So Gut-Wrenching: A Short Musical Analysis of "City of Stars"</span>
<span class="project-date">2023</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
"City of Stars" primarily uses melodic tension and release and specific chord progressions to convey the emotion of hope throughout the piece.
</p>
</a> -->
<a href="/arts/stories/fading-lights.html" target="_blank" class="project-container">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">fading lights</span>
<span class="project-date">2020</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the empty street. A gentle breeze rustled through...
</p>
</a>
<!-- <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/koboiwarsri24.z" target="_blank" class="project-container alt">
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<span class="project-title">Spotify</span>
<span class="project-date">2017–present</span>
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<p class="project-excerpt">
my profile and listening on Spotify.
</p>
</a> -->
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<a href="/arts" class="inline-link">see my anthology + more →</a>
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<h2>business</h2>
<span class="section-subtitle">
business initiatives in marketing, operations, data analytics, and optimization
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<span class="project-title">Housing Price Prediction and Investment Optimization</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
Combined predictive modeling (LightGBM, SHAP) and mathematical optimization to support real estate investment decisions. Predicted housing prices on the Ames dataset and optimized portfolio allocation under budget and diversification constraints.
</p>
</div>
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<span class="project-title">Scentbird's Personalized Marketing Strategy</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
</div>
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Applied advanced marketing strategies to reinvent the approach to marketing at Scentbird, a luxury fragrance subscription company. Performed market research to gather data for customer segmentation, targeting, and positioning. Utilized conjoint analysis to quantify customer preferences, proposed a dynamic pricing model, and designed a two-pronged campaign aimed at improving customer acquisition efficiency and retention.
</p>
</div> -->
<div class="project-container alt">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">Eliminating Disjoint Teams and Prioritizing Profit Workflows at Medikana</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
Operations-focused engagement with health-tech startup Medikana: worked directly with the company on the "All-Hands Product Push," analyzed their structure and sales pipeline, and recommended changes including a centralized CRM for coordination and scalability.
</p>
</div>
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<span class="project-title"> Nesting Boxes for Cambridge Participatory Budgeting</span>
<span class="project-date">2025</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
Researched and designed a community proposal for the City of Cambridge's Participatory Budgeting process to install resident-built nesting boxes across public green spaces. The initiative supports passive pest control, biodiversity, and civic engagement, bringing back birds and community camaraderie to the urban environment.
</p>
</div> -->
<div class="project-container">
<div class="project-link">
<span class="project-title">Predicting Hurricane Evacuation Using Network Flow Models</span>
<span class="project-date">2024</span>
</div>
<p class="project-excerpt">
Developed a mixed-integer program using JuMP and Gurobi to model large-scale hurricane evacuation in Florida. Integrated real-world road, shelter, and population data to minimize unallocated evacuees under capacity and distance constraints. Achieved a 79% improvement over greedy heuristics and identified high-impact infrastructure sites.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="link-container">
<a href="/business/" class="inline-link">see more business projects →</a>
</div>
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<h2>et cetera</h2>
<div class="section-subtitle" style="margin-top: 20px;">
<p>my go-to fun fact is that i'm ambidextrous; i also love to travel</p>
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<span class="etc-title">education</span>
<p>MIT '26</p>
<p>computer science + artificial intelligence & business analytics</p>
<p>mathematics & music</p>
<a href="/classes.html" class="inline-link">see my classes!</a>
</div>
<div class="etc-item">
<span class="etc-title">interests</span>
<p>cybersecurity, AI/ML, full-stack development</p>
<p>violin, composition, music production</p>
<p>creative writing, public speaking</p>
<p>poker, game development, astronomy & biology at a high level</p>
</div>
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