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Technology & Information Management student at UC Santa Cruz (graduating a year early), working across applied AI research, full-stack engineering, and product. I ship autonomous agents, co-author research under review at ICML, and found the orgs I wish existed.
Concept unlearning via steering vectors in diffusion transformers — ICML 2026 submission, under peer review.
I'm Tarun — a builder, researcher, and product founder studying Technology & Information Management at UC Santa Cruz, on track to graduate a year early in 2027 with a CS-heavy concentration.
I live between three worlds: I co-author AI research (currently under review at ICML), I ship autonomous agents and full-stack products solo and on teams, and I found the organizations I wish had existed — UCSC's first PM Club, a tech research ideathon, and a drone club that got acquired by Girls Who Code. Most of what I build starts as a hackathon and refuses to die quietly.
I'm also an avid musician. Guitar is my home base — years deep — but I'll pick up and learn anything with strings, keys, or skins: I've taught myself drums, piano, and marimba, and I'm always hunting for the next instrument to figure out.
Off the clock: photography along the California coast, MUN logistics, and community CS teaching.
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