# Arya Palanivel

> CS @ UC Irvine

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aryapalanivel

## Work Experience
### Software Developer - Projects Committee Member @ UCI ICS Student Council
Jan 2025 – Present | Irvine, California, United States

### Machine Learning Researcher @ UCI Artificial Intelligence in Science Institute (AISI)
Jan 2025 – Present | Irvine, California, United States
Researching Vision Transformers (ViTs) with contrastive pretraining and layer-wise classifier evaluation, focusing on how representations evolve across encoder blocks, how feature separability can be quantified at different depths, and how multi-head training impacts accuracy and efficiency.

### AI/ML Researcher @ Algoverse
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer Internship @ Zyxware Technologies
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Dallas, Texas, United States
Developing an AI-powered agent using Crawl4AI to automatically discover, scrape, and track business-relevant articles, delivering structured, actionable insights in real time.

### Market Research Analyst @ ITServe Alliance
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Dallas, Texas, United States
Explored core business and startup concepts using the Business Model Canvas. Researched product development, revenue, and impact models. Interviewed investors to understand funding and marketing strategies, and supported the growth of local tech startups through strategic insights and investment research.

### Urban Data Science Researcher @ MILRD AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed advanced AI models to simulate population dynamics and analyze income disparities across ethnically diverse districts in major metropolitan areas. The models identified and visualized income trends within specific ethnic populations, enabling district-level comparative analysis.


## Education
### Computer Science
UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

### High School Diploma in Computer Science
Monta Vista High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arya-palanivel
- GitHub: https://github.com/masterdabber

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Last updated: 2026-04-10