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Vision & Values
Current Focus
Karma-Čintana refers to the reflection of action in Sanskrit. This online webpage is dedicated to my reflection on the work I have done in pursuit of knowledge and providing value to society at large.
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Minnesota, interested in generative AI models, distributed systems, and formal language theory + automata theory. I am also interested in machine learning, however I would say my interest is limited to the application of those algorithms in linguistics and deep learning models. I am very fascinated by the nature of information, linguistics, and how we can best process natural language into intelligent software.
I am also the UMN AI Club President, fostering a community of diverse people to solve our world's greatest frontier — simulated intelligence.
Outside of work, I love to read Indian history and am a passionate writer. I play the guitar and love tennis 🎾.
Latest Publications
Stealing Creator's Workflow: A Creator-Inspired Agentic Framework with
Iterative Feedback Loop for Improved Scientific Short-form Generation
arXiv:2504.18805, 2025.
arXiv
Prompt Optimization as a State-Space Search Problem
arXiv:2511.18619, 2025.
arXiv
Parallelized KV Cache Compression using CUDA
In Preparation.
Pre-print
Experience
Cisco XDR Software Engineering Intern
Designed an autonomous AI agent using LangGraph to process 200+ daily customer support
tickets by executing diagnostic queries across large-scale data lakes. Developed a
Django/PostgreSQL microservices backend with Duo SSO and React dashboard on AWS EKS. Filed a
patent for the system.
Minnesota NLP Lab Undergraduate Researcher
Co-authored SciTalk, a multi-agent framework for scientific video generation. Designed
iterative feedback loops using LLaVA-NeXT-Video 34B and built a modular pipeline with 6
GPT-4o agents to extract and ground videos in source materials.
Cisco Webex Software Engineering Intern
Designed and deployed an LLM-powered evaluation pipeline for the Cisco Control Hub AI
Assistant, improving evaluation accuracy by 40%. Cut generation costs by 50% by introducing
Redis-based caching infrastructure.
Mohenjo Daro Co-Founder
Launched a decentralized media startup aggregating underrepresented voices; scaled to 500+
monthly readers. Led end-to-end architecture (Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) and cloud
infrastructure (AWS, Terraform).
CloudQuest Pvt Ltd. Software Engineering
Intern
Engineered cross-platform video player for India's first cloud gaming service using C++,
FFmpeg, OpenGL, and WebRTC. Reduced video latency by 120% and improved quality 4x by
designing custom decoder. Ported client to WebAssembly.
Projects
In-Memory Vector Knowledge Base
A lightweight vector database built with SQLite and FAISS for agent memory and rapid
prototyping. Created at Cisco to bypass infrastructure constraints, it provides a
zero-dependency knowledge store supporting semantic chunking, category-based retrieval, and
LLM-powered relevance filtering. Plug-and-play with LangChain, handling both in-memory and
persistent storage for small to medium-scale knowledge bases.
GitHub
Media Library
A work-in-progress media manipulation API written in C flavoured C++ using FFMPEG LibAV,
currently capable of encoding, decoding, remuxing and transcoding files with a simple
interface. The Library can also be used to capture, process RTP stream packets for use in
video streaming applications. The goal is to make a library that can be used to edit videos
programmatically, sorta like Premiere Pro but without the UI.
GitHub
Ray Tracer
A work-in-progress Path Tracer based on Peter Shirley's book, currently using a naive brute
force ray tracing algorithm to simulate Lambert, Metallic, and Transparent objects.
Currently porting to CUDA for massive performance gains via parallelism.
GitHub