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2025

AI/Robotics Research with UC Berkeley mentor

AI Researcher & Author of Paper

UpstreamQA: A Modular Framework for Explicit ReasoningOpen PDF ↗

Highlights

  • Co-author of AI research applying a novel vision-language model framework with applications for robotics
  • Processed NExtQA dataset videos into formats for Gemini and ChatGPT
  • Ran object detection and scene context experiments, with and without reasoning
  • Demonstrated performance gains up to +9% in LLM-Match accuracy
  • 1 of 17 papers accepted worldwide to VLM4RWD (NeurIPS 2025), presented in Mexico City in November 2025

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