CV

Education

  • 2023 -- Present
    PhD
    Arizona State University
  • 2021 -- 2022
    Masters in Computer Science (with thesis)
    Arizona State University
  • 2016 -- 2020
    Bachelor of Technology (ICT)
    Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Experience

  • Fall'22 -- Present
    Research Assistant
    Arizona State University
    • Robust multi-modal Representation Learning.
    • Advisor: Yezhou Yang
  • Summer'22
    AI/ML Intern
    LatentAI
    • Semantic segmentation model compression for edge devices.
    • Advisor: Jan Ernst
  • May'21 -- May'22
    Research Assitant
    Arizona State University
    • Unsupervised aspect based sentiment analysis.
    • Advisor: Hasan Davulcu
  • Jan'20 -- Dec'20
    Data Science Associates
    AI-CoE, ZS Associates
    • Transformers for rare-disease detection from tabular data.
    • Advisor: Prakash Prakash

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Received ($950) Graduate College Travel Award FY23 Q4 for NeurIPS from ASU.
  • 2022
    • Received ($300) Graduate College Travel Award FY22 Q4 for NeurIPS from ASU.
  • 2021
    • Simon Fraser University - MSCS Research scholarship of $42,000.00 (Declined).
  • 2020
    • Deans' Award for Excellence in Research & Innovation in class of 2020 undergraduate batch.
  • 2019
    • Ranked under top 50 out of 7000 applicants in ML-challenge organized by ZS Associates in India.

Invited Talks

  • 2024
    • Towards Robust Text-to-Image Generative Models in Resource-Efficient Manner. -- RGMV - Tutorial @ WACV'24
  • 2023
    • Survey and Trend in Vision-Language. -- ASU
  • 2023
    • Recent Advances in Generative Models. -- DAIICT
  • 2022
    • Importance of Counterfactual Reasoning towards Human Level Intelligence (HLI). -- LatentAI
  • 2020
    • MSpeC-Net Multi-Domain Speech Conversion Network -- ICASSP
  • 2019
    • Towards eXplainable AI (XAI) to understand what CNNs are learning.
    • How to deploy any deep learning system?

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Traveling, Kayaking, Anime/Manga.