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mehra
hi! i am a sophomore electrical engineering student at ucla, interested in the intersection of hardware, software, and ai.
i'm a founding engineer at nanalyt, where i build the llm research pipeline for an ai startup that helps ecommerce sellers validate product demand before spending on ads. i'm also the cofounder and cto of labkickstart, where i build wireless physics sensors and the software around them for high school lab classes. i was part of the founders, inc. offseason ii accelerator in summer 2026 to build labkickstart.
on the side i train and release small post-transformer (bdh) language models, with checkpoints on hugging face. i'm part of bruin entrepreneurs, where i do technical consulting for startups.
open to summer 2027 internships and research positions in ai, robotics, and embedded systems.
Project highlights
- Dragon Hatchling (BDH)I trained and released small BDH language models, comparing byte and BPE training, streaming inference, and recall.2026
- LABKickstartWireless physics sensors (ronto) plus a live dashboard, simulator, and graphing app. Began as kineti-kit, 1st at IdeaHacks 2026.2026
- DSH PluginsPlugins for DeepSeek Harness that manage context size, limit concurrent requests, and adjust timeouts for local models.2026
- Housing IntelligenceTurns floor-plan images into walkable 3D homes, with chat-based restyling and furniture imported from Amazon links.2026
- BlackboxRecords AI agent runs, identifies likely failure points, and replays corrected steps to test what went wrong.2026
- PhotonA low-cost infrared scanner that maps veins in real time with a Raspberry Pi and NIR LEDs. Built at MakeMIT x Harvard Hackathon 2026.2026
