Chronology · Recent First
Dispatches
Small news — papers accepted, places joined, moments worth marking down.
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A reverse-chronological record of what has happened since I started writing things down. Some entries are milestones; most are not. I keep the list short on purpose — a newsletter rather than a changelog.
20252 entries
13Jun
AwardRecognized as an outstanding reviewer at CVPR 2025. A quiet honor — reviewing is thankless work that rarely gets a nod.
27Jan
New roleJoined Adobe Research, Bengaluru as a Research Scientist. Back in India after six years in Los Angeles — and working on multi-modal document understanding.
20241 entry
18Dec
ThesisDefended 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.
20235 entries
16Nov
PressOur findings on demographic representation in Indian TV — joint work with Google Research and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media — were published on the Google AI India blog and received press coverage.
29Sep
MilestonePassed my Ph.D. qualifying examination and advanced to candidacy.
18Aug
InternshipCompleted my summer at NVIDIA Maxine AI as a Computer Vision & Graphics intern — a fascinating immersion in real-time video pipelines.
16May
InternshipJoined NVIDIA Maxine AI as a Computer Vision & Graphics intern for the summer.
Before the Log
Earlier than this, I was living without writing things down. The short version: six years of graduate school at USC with Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan; two years as a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research India; a master’s at IIT Bombay with Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri; an undergraduate degree from Jadavpur University. The CV has the full timeline with dates.