Sai PeramAI/ML & Robotics Specialist

Leadership

Leading technical teams, communities, and applied AI programs.

Leadership across engineering communities, AI mentorship, technical education, and nonprofit operations, grounded in clear execution and measurable impact.

NVIDIA May 2026 - Present Santa Clara, California

Community and Cohort Leadership

Intern Ambassador

  • Intern engagement: Leading a cohort of NVIDIA interns through summer competitions, social programming, and professional networking events.
  • Community building: Creating opportunities for interns to connect across teams, exchange technical perspectives, and strengthen the summer experience.
  • Cohort Leadership
  • Community Building
  • Event Coordination
  • Professional Networking
Artificial Intelligence Society at UTD Jan 2025 - May 2025 Richardson, Texas

AI Mentorship and Healthcare Innovation

AI Project Lead, AIM

  • Product leadership: Led development of OptiClarity, an AI-powered ophthalmology platform for OCT analysis, glaucoma detection, visual-acuity assessment, and clinical workflow support.
  • Technical direction: Oversaw data preprocessing, model training, hyperparameter tuning, dataset augmentation, and deployment across CNN-based medical-imaging pipelines.
  • Team mentorship: Guided contributors in computer vision, deep-learning optimization, pattern recognition, and real-world implementation of clinical decision-support systems.
  • Project Leadership
  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Imaging
  • Deep Learning
  • AI Mentorship
UTDesign Makerspace May 2024 - May 2025 Richardson, Texas

Engineering Community Operations

President

  • Organization leadership: Led UTDesign Makerspace, a technical collaboration hub supporting student builders and engineering organizations at UT Dallas.
  • Builder ecosystem: Coordinated resources, project collaboration, and community programming for multidisciplinary technical teams.
  • Operations
  • Technical Community
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
Theta Tau Alpha Jan 2025 - May 2025 Richardson, Texas

Technical Education

AI Track Lead

  • 50+ students mentored: Taught AI agents, x86, FPGA concepts, LLMs, Git, data ingestion, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on curriculum: Led workshops across computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and neural networks.
  • Applied model development: Guided students through preprocessing, training, and optimization with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
  • AI Education
  • LLMs
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Cloud Infrastructure
IEEE Sep 2024 - May 2025 Richardson, Texas

Peer Technical Instruction

Digital Systems Tutor

  • Systems fundamentals: Tutored students in digital logic, MIPS assembly, C programming, and low-level computer architecture concepts.
  • Individual mentorship: Translated complex systems material into practical problem-solving strategies for coursework and labs.
  • Digital Logic
  • MIPS Assembly
  • C
  • Computer Architecture
The STEMology Mar 2021 - Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario · Remote

Nonprofit Operations and STEM Access

Co-Founder and COO

  • $2,000 raised: Fundraised to provide hands-on engineering materials and STEM resources to students in India.
  • Operational leadership: Co-led nonprofit strategy, resource coordination, and delivery for students in developing communities.
  • Nonprofit Operations
  • Fundraising
  • STEM Education
  • Community Impact