Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
IDiR Lab, University of Texas at Arlington
Project: Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph
Instructor: Dr. Chengkai Li
May 2024 - Present
Arlington, TX
  • Develop a full-stack dashboard for RDF database using Streamlit, Plotly, Cytoscape.js, and Mapbox to provide interactive graph visualizations
  • Containerized the complete application infrastructure with Docker for streamlined deployment and scalability.
  • Integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) using LangChain to enable natural language querying of the graph database.
  • Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline enhanced with vector search capabilities using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search.
Research Apprentice
USDA-ARS
Project: Automated Corn Ear Phenotyping
Instructor: Dr. Haibo Yao
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Remote
  • Developed a computer vision pipeline to automatically detect corn ears, count individual kernels, and cluster kernels into rows.
  • Reduced manual labeling time by 90% by building a preprocessing pipeline: initial detection via contour analysis, separation of touching kernels using convexity defects.
  • Modified and fine-tuned a pre-trained Faster R-CNN model (ResNet-50 backbone), achieving 99% precision and 97% recall on images with up to 800 densely packed corn kernels.
  • Implemented a custom DBSCAN-based algorithm to cluster kernels into spatial rows for structural analysis.
Customer Research Intern
Nagarro Inc.
Project: Market Research Using AI
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Remote
  • Analyzed public brand sentiment across multiple social media channels using Brandwatch, compiling key insights for strategic reports
  • Designed and deployed real-time, interactive dashboards to present sentiment data and campaign perfor- mance to clients.
  • Crafted stakeholder-facing reports using a storytelling approach to effectively communicate key insights