Ph.D, Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt

M.Sc., Computer Science, American University of Armenia

B.Sc., Nuclear Physics, Yerevan State University

Applied Research Intern, NVIDIA, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

• Research on improving Reasoning Language Models capabilities on STEM domain.

Applied Research Intern, NVIDIA, Yerevan, Armenia

• Improved code-reasoning performance of open-source LLMs on SWE-Bench through targeted evaluation, error analysis, and iterative modeling iterations.
• Built a localization system Artsiv achieving state-of-the-art results on SWE-Bench (1 publication).

Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

• Conducted mechanistic interpretability research to predict pre-generation instabilities and hallucinations (factual self-unawareness) at inference time in LLMs (2 publications).
• Created multi-agent system to generate human-chatbot interaction dialogues at scale (1 publication).
• Developed Urartu, a lightweight slurm submission + reproducibility framework for faster iteration.

Machine Learning Researcher, YerevaNN, Yerevan, Armenia

• Investigated interpretability of the Chameleon model (FAIR, Meta AI collaboration) (1 publication).
• Researched transformer alternatives for text generation: diffusion models, mixture of expert models, and language model bootstrapping (FAIR, Meta AI collaboration).
• Trained a molecular representation learning model (FAIR, Meta AI collaboration) (1 publication).
• Experimented on cross-lingual zero-shot transfer using prompt-based learning and adapters.
• Researched bilingual sentence alignment in low-resource setups (Master’s Thesis).
• Built a machine translation system for the WMT20 Biomedical domain tasks (1 publication).

Machine Learning Engineer, AimStack, Yerevan, Armenia

• Integrated the Aim experiment tracking tool with popular ML frameworks and MLOps tools.
• Authored technical blog posts to increase community awareness and adoption (3 blog posts).

Machine Learning Engineer, ZERØ, Yerevan, Armenia

• Researched and developed a legal document classification system.
• Built tmynNLP, a framework used to develop a multiclass document classification pipeline.

Software Engineer, Birthright Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

• Led and built a large-scale CMS system with email management system.

Physics Researcher, CANDLE SRI, Yerevan, Armenia

• Measured electron-beam emittance on the AREAL linac (1 publication).
• Built a tooling suite for accelerator control and beam diagnostics.

Web Developer, Floopen, Yerevan, Armenia

• Developed and maintained a general-purpose content management system.

Teaching Associate, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

• Taught the Introduction to LLMs course as a Teaching Associate.
• Conducted workshops on PyTorch optimization and experiment tracking and reproducibility.
• Supervised 4 M.Sc. theses in mechanistic interpretability.

Core Monitor, Instituto Superior Técnico – LxMLS 2023, Lisbon, Portugal

• Authored a step-by-step guide explaining the transformer architecture.
• Facilitated hands-on lab sessions for researchers, graduate students, and industry professionals.

Teaching Associate, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

• Deep Learning: Taught natural language processing lectures and led problem-solving sessions.
• Data Structures and Algorithms: Led problem-solving sessions and created homework assignments.