experience
work & research, most recent first.
software engineering intern
leading end-to-end development of a production-style agent platform — message ingestion, orchestration, persistence, observability, and background task automation. spearheading aura, a conversational ai backend that processes requests over redis pub/sub, orchestrates multi-turn conversations, and integrates built-in tools via native llm function calling. implemented per-user sqlite storage for notes, reminders, preferences, conversation search, and memory.
research lead
led a cross-national research project investigating how social media usage affects adolescent behaviour and sleep health, supervised by amirreza haghighi, lecturer of medicine at harvard. collected and analyzed survey data from 150+ students across iran & canada using psqi, smas, and erq to identify correlations between screen time, anxiety, and sleep quality — findings with implications for 7 million adolescents. visualized key trends through graphs highlighting psychological and behavioural patterns.
b.cs, university of waterloo
bachelor's in computer science. coursework across systems, algorithms, and ml.