Astha Soni

HackPrinceton | MS DS’26 | Actively Seeking Data Science New Grad Roles | Ex-Data Analyst Intern @ JustDogs | Ex-Python Intern @ BrainyBeam | Ex-JSE Intern @ S&P Global

Role
Ai Ml Engineering Intern at Zscaler
Location
Bellevue, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Astha Soni

I\'m an AI/ML Engineer passionate about building production-ready AI systems that solve…

Experience

  1. Ai Ml Engineering Intern

    Zscaler

    May 2025 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

    Developed an audio guardrail system for LLM misuse prevention by fine-tuning Wav2Vec2 audio classification models with Hugging Face Transformers, achieving 85% jailbreak detection accuracy across diverse audio inputs- Synthesized comprehensive audio samples from scratch using Google Cloud TTS, with manual labeling, and trained classification models on GPU-backed AWS EC2 instances, improving robustness by 18% compared to baseline- Designed a robust and rigorous evaluation pipeline using Coqui XTTS voice cloning; validated performance across 4 benchmark datasets, achieving 86% F1-score and ensuring reliable cross-speaker generalization.

Education

  • Stony Brook University

    Master's degree

    2024 — 2026

  • Pandit Deendayal Energy University

    Bachelor of Engineering - BE

    2020 — 2024

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