Built Scientia.ai, a production-ready AI research assistant that helps users explore academic papers through intelligent Q&A, structured summaries, citation discovery, and multi-paper comparison. The platform supports PDF uploads, semantic search, LaTeX equation rendering, research insight extraction, and NotebookLM-style audio podcast summaries. Developed a premium React + TailwindCSS dark glassmorphic dashboard with a split-pane research workspace, paper library, interactive citation drawer, LaTeX equation playground, PyTorch scaffold generator, GitHub repository matcher, and comparative synthesis tables. Built the backend using Flask, SQLite, FAISS, SentenceTransformers, PyMuPDF, and Google Gemini Flash to handle PDF parsing, vector-based RAG, AI summaries, OpenAlex citation lookups, and audio generation. Tech Stack: React, TailwindCSS, Flask, SQLite, FAISS, SentenceTransformers, PyMuPDF, Google Gemini, OpenAlex API, GitHub API, Docker