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Purpose

My lived experience with hearing loss has shown me first-hand how technology can dramatically alter life outcomes for people. I am driven to work at the intersection of AI, human communication and assistive technologies and to build solutions that can improve the lives of millions.

Education

University of Victoria (UVic), British Columbia

1st Year, Bachelors in Psychology + Computer Science

Passion Projects

Advocacy (Public Speaking & Policy Work)

2016 – Present

Delivered talks at TEDx, educational institutions, NGOs, and multinational companies. Single-handedly advocated resulting in a newborn hearing screening mandate in Karnataka (population 69M). Invited to speak at the AG Bell Sound Futures event in November 2025 in Washington, DC.

Kivvy Project (Founder)

Feb 2023 – Jul 2025

An initiative to enable government-executed early hearing-loss screening of children at massive scale. Facilitated a pilot forging alignment across institutions: IIT Madras, SRESHT-SRIHER-IA Lab, Government of Karnataka, and SRCISH.

Technical Internships

AI/ML Exposure Intern — Datasigns Technologies

May – Aug 2024

Rebuilt a RAG pipeline using LangChain and Python. Used Pinecone for vector storage and semantic search. Built workflows with embedding and LLM APIs. Gained experience with prompt engineering, text embeddings, and GitHub version control.

FPGA Programming Exposure Intern — Raman Research Institute

May – Sep 2024

Implemented digital-logic modules in VHDL, deployed and tested on Xilinx FPGA boards. Explored signal behavior and hardware execution flow to understand how code maps to physical circuitry.

Awards & Recognition

Deccan Herald ChangemakerSocietal impact through innovation in Health

2025

Mangharam Award for ExcellenceExceptional achievement beyond academics

2024

Brand Ambassador, NPPCDNational Program for Prevention & Control of Deafness, Govt. of India

2023

National Inspirer, Cochlear FoundationPersonal achievement and global impact

2023

Rex Karamveer PuraskaarIndian Confederation of NGOs (iCONGO)

2017

Sports & Other Interests

Football (soccer), cricket, chess, table-tennis, swimming, tennis, pickleball, scuba diving and photography.

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