Notes

Recognized as an outstanding reviewer at CVPR 2025. A quiet honor — reviewing rarely gets a nod.

Joined Adobe Research, Bengaluru as a Research Scientist. Back in India after six years in Los Angeles, working on multi-modal document understanding.

Defended my Ph.D. dissertation, Multimodal Perception Guided Computational Media Understanding — six years of work at USC across vision, language, audio, and the systems that join them.

Findings on demographic representation in Indian TV — joint work with Google Research and the Geena Davis Institute — published on the Google AI India blog with press coverage.

Passed Ph.D. qualifying examination; advanced to candidacy.

Completed summer at NVIDIA Maxine AI — a fascinating immersion in real-time video pipelines.

MM-AU and SEAR accepted to ACM MM 2023.

Joined NVIDIA Maxine AI as a Computer Vision & Graphics intern for the summer.