Work

A summary of my professional journey so far - the teams I've worked with, technologies I've built with and the problems I've helped solve. Always happy to discuss new ideas - hit me up at @w2sgarnav.

Experience

ML Research Intern

2025

On Site

Startup

  • ›Worked on Text-to-Speech systems and evaluation metrics in the audio ML domain
  • ›Focused on TTS quality improvements and comprehensive model evaluations
  • ›Developed novel evaluation frameworks for speech synthesis systems

Founder in Residence

2025

On Site

Global

  • ›Worked on post-training techniques for large language models
  • ›Explored innovative approaches to improve model performance after initial training
  • ›Collaborated with world-class founders and researchers

Research Contributor

2024 - 2025

Remote

Open Source

  • ›Contributed to the METR evaluations open source program
  • ›Focused on AI safety and capability evaluations
  • ›Developed evaluation methodologies for frontier AI systems

Research Intern

2024

Remote

National Institutes of Health

  • ›Conducted research on ALS biomarkers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • ›Applied machine learning techniques to identify potential biomarkers for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  • ›Collaborated with leading neuroscience researchers on clinical ML applications

Research Intern

2024

Remote

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • ›Contributed to the Mantis AI project at MIT
  • ›Worked on advanced AI systems and their applications
  • ›Developed novel architectures for multimodal understanding

Research Intern

2024

Remote

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • ›Worked on the Decentralized AI project
  • ›Explored distributed machine learning systems and their applications in privacy-preserving AI
  • ›Contributed to cutting-edge research at one of the world's leading research labs

Research Intern

2023 - 2024

Remote

Under Prof. Devashree Tripathy

  • ›Contributed to the VIDUR research paper
  • ›Worked on cutting-edge machine learning research under faculty supervision
  • ›Published research on video understanding and reasoning

meanwhile you can checkout my other projects or career updates on github / linkedin.