Research Proposal Development Specialist III

Tulane University · Aug 2026 – present

• Assisting faculty across disciplines, with a primary focus on the School of Science and Engineering, with the preparation and submission of competitive federal and foundation grant proposals for research funding.

President

Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (VT GPSS) · 2024 – 2025

• Elected to lead a 70+ member shared governance body representing 7K+ graduate and professional students across Virginia Tech campuses, exercised fiscal authority over $120K annual operating budget and strategically allocated $175K in auxiliary funding while coordinating with senior university leadership on institutional priorities.
• Chaired cross-functional task forces with executive university administration, Title IX, HR, and graduate students to help establish the Office of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education, defining mandate, operating model, and implementation workflows for graduate-student-facing policy execution.
• Engineered an institutional centralized grievance and escalation workflow to mitigate systemic risk; mobilized consensus across conflicting university divisions and delivered university policy blueprints adopted by senior administration.
• Directed the University Mission Initiative Committee tasked with expanding graduate enrollment by 2,300 students; engineered predictive models and structural blueprints for tuition, fees, and stipend adjustments to optimize a $40M funding matrix.
• After end of term, chaired the Commission for Graduate and Professional Student Affairs (2025-2026), steering institutional committees on university policy and managing policy reconciliation processes across diverse campuses and campus divisions.

Business Analyst

Swiggy (Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd) · Bengaluru, India · 2020 – 2021

• Scaled proprietary brand portfolios across hyper-competitive regional markets by leveraging predictive analytics and user-experience data, driving a 15% increase in engagement and a 22% surge in top-line growth.
• Designed and coded interactive data-visualization dashboards for real-time campaign performance tracking; reduced reporting latencies and provided decision-support models for executive leadership.
• Enabled higher market penetration and competitive positioning of private brands by analyzing complex datasets to identify high-impact products and optimize brand visibility across multiple cities, informing prioritization and go-to-market execution.

Director of Advocacy

Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (VT GPSS) · 2023 – 2024

Senator, Department of Chemistry

Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (VT GPSS) · 2022 – 2023

Co-Founder and Senator

Chemistry Graduate Student Senate, Virginia Tech · 2022 – 2024

Writer/Editor

Logistics and Communication Head

TEDx IIT Bombay · 2019

Editor-in-Chief

Spandan – The Vaani Magazine, IIT Bombay · 2018 – 2019

Vice Contingent Leader

Inter-IIT Cultural Meet (Winning Team) · 2018