Vaibhav Arvind Kinikar is a graduate student at the University of Southern California studying for a Master's degree in Computer Science. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore, India. He has skills in languages like C, C++, Java, C#, and technologies including Android SDK, SQL, PHP, and has experience developing applications for Windows Phone, Android, and the web using technologies such as Bootstrap, jQuery, and AWS. He has worked on academic projects involving operating systems, crawling polar datasets, visualizing data with D3 and FacetView, and developing social networking and property search applications.