Curriculum

A short, current version. The full PDF is linked below.

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Research Scientist at Adobe Research, Bengaluru. Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from USC (2024). Nineteen peer-reviewed papers plus one patent across multimodal machine learning, computer vision, and healthcare applications.


Appointments

Current
  • 2025– Research Scientist Adobe Research, Bengaluru · Multi-modal document understanding.
Previous
  • 2023 Computer Vision & Graphics Intern NVIDIA Maxine AI · Summer internship, real-time video pipelines.
  • 2018–2024 Graduate Research Assistant Signal Analysis & Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), University of Southern California · Advisor: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan.
  • 2016–2018 Research Software Engineer IBM Research India · Visual query processing & distributed systems (one granted US patent).

Education

Doctorate
  • 2018–2024 Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Southern California · Viterbi School of Engineering.
    Thesis: Multimodal Perception Guided Computational Media Understanding.
    Advisor: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan.
Master’s
  • 2014–2016 M.Tech, Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay · Advisor: Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri.
Bachelor’s
  • 2010–2014 B.E., Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Awards & Recognition

Selected
  • 2025 Outstanding Reviewer IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • 2023 Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Advanced to candidacy, USC ECE.
  • 2020 US Patent Granted Visually Guided Query Processing · US 10,878,291.

Service

Reviewing
  • Ongoing Conference program committees CVPR, ACM Multimedia, ICASSP, ICMI, Interspeech, WACV.
  • Ongoing Journal reviewing IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Teaching & Mentorship

USC
  • 2020–2024 Research mentor Mentored several M.S. and undergraduate researchers at SAIL on multimodal projects.

Publications

Summary
  • Total 19 peer-reviewed papers · 1 patent Across CVPR, ACM MM, WACV, KDD, EMNLP, ICASSP, ICMI, Interspeech, and others.
  • First author 8 papers Including MM-AU (ACM MM ’23), MovieCLIP (WACV ’23), and the FPSAM journal paper.

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Contact


This is the brief, web version. A full PDF CV with dates, advisors, talks, and internal service is available here. Last updated April 2026.

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