Bio

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Wadhwani School of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras.

Prior to joining IIT Madras, I was an Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, working under the guidance of Prof. Rama Chellappa. I earned my Ph.D. from the Vision and AI Lab in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu.

Research Interests

My research focuses broadly on computer vision and visual intelligence, with specific interests in:

• Long Video Understanding & Video-Language Models
• VLM Compositional Reasoning
• Few-shot learning
• 3D Computer Vision & Computational Photography

For a complete overview of my ongoing projects and academic output, please explore my Publications pages.

Selected honors & awards

• IAPR Best Biometrics Student Paper Award, IJCB 2024. [Link]
• Best Student Paper Award (Runner-up), BMVC 2021.