Tanya Nair

Undergraduate researcher at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Evaluating multilingual RAG systems under Prof. Ziang Xiao and Nikhil Sharma. Sept 2025 – present.

EDIT AI Intern at the Levy Lab. Built a RAG model for pathology report cross-referencing using BM25 + FAISS fusion search and Microsoft phi-2. Summer 2024.

Returned to Dartmouth Health as a mentor for the EDIT AI program. Led preprocessing and experiment design: WSI tiling, stain normalization, class imbalance mitigation, multimodal alignment. Summer 2025.

Automated pipeline to convert PowerPoint presentations to accessibility-compliant formats for vision-impaired students. Presented at EDUCAUSE 2025. June 2024 – present.

Investigating transparency gaps in surgical LLM research and geospatial disparities in community opportunity metrics for equitable surgical resource allocation.

Chennai, India.

Incoming co-op at Chewy, Bellevue, WA. Summer/Fall 2026.

Developed and tested AI models for Apollo, a platform helping students learn and succeed in school. May – Oct 2024.

Co-founded Axon in January 2026. A cognitive wellbeing analytics platform.

SQL-powered Pokédex — normalized SQLite schema, Python analytics, Streamlit frontend.

1st place in the Data Visualization track at HopHacks.

Best Use of Sponsor API (Twilio) at HackPNW.

Designed and built a 1 kg satellite for the international CanSat competition. Led Ground Control System, Sensor Subsystem, and Communication & Data Handling. 1 of 40 US teams to advance to launch.

Electrical subteam for the Johns Hopkins Mars Rover (University Rover Challenge). Communication and power system design.

Published in JSR. A comparative study of six NLP techniques applied to sentiment analysis of poetry.