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mehra
hi! i am a first-year electrical engineering student at ucla who is interested in the intersection of hardware, software, and ai.
i'm the cofounder and cto of labkickstart, where i'm building world-compatible physics labware. i'm also a founding engineer at an ai startup that helps ecommerce sellers validate product demand before spending on ads. i build the llm research pipeline (amazon reviews, tiktok/meta ads, reddit, youtube) as well as analytics and billing.
i'm part of bruin entrepreneurs, ucla's primary entrepreneurship organization, where i do technical consulting for startups in the ai infrastructure and enterprise software space.
open to summer internships in embedded systems and ai.

Project highlights
- LABKickstartWireless physics sensors (ronto) plus a live dashboard, simulator, and graphing app. Began as kineti-kit, 1st at IdeaHacks 2026.2026
- Housing IntelligenceTurns a floor-plan image into a walkable 3D home. Restyle it by chat, furnish it from Amazon links, and get room-by-room insights.2026
- DSH PluginsOpen-source infrastructure plugins for DeepSeek Harness. Context budgeting, concurrency gating, and timeout control for local LLMs.2026
- BlackboxA causal debugger for AI agents that records a run, localizes the earliest wrong step, and proves the root cause by replay.2026
- PhotonA low-cost infrared scanner that maps veins in real time with a Raspberry Pi and NIR LEDs. Built at MakeMIT x Harvard Hackathon 2026.2026
- AI Foreign Policy AssistantA GraphRAG system for grounded foreign-policy analysis. Independent research paper and interdisciplinary project.2024