Internships & Full-time work experience
Runway AI, Inc., New York, USA
Sr. Research Scientist
Jan 2023 – Present
- Research & Development of AI-enabled editing tools for artists
Cruise LLC, San Francisco, USA
Intern, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception – I
May 2022 – Aug 2022 | Mentor: Siddharth Mahendran
- Proposed models for LiDAR-based 3D object detection that showed promising results for critical objects.
- Developed novel visualization tools and metrics to improve model debuggability and identify new impact areas.
Couture AI, Bangalore, India
Data Scientist – I
Oct 2020 – Jul 2021
- Worked with cross-functional teams to invent AI automation algorithms for use cases such as video & movie summarization, fashion apparel attribute prediction, and bilingual call analytics.
- Awarded Rising Star for owning and deploying end-to-end solutions that generated new business opportunities.
Video Analytics Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Project Assistant | Advisor: Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu
Jun 2019 – Sep 2020
Research Intern | Advisor: Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu
Jan 2019 – May 2020
- Innovated multiple data & compute-efficient neural network training algorithms for open-set, class-incremental, multi-source domain adaptation and adversarial robustness of neural networks (CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS 2020).
- Proposed the Source-free Domain Adaptation, a (now) popular privacy-preserving unsupervised DA paradigm, and a plug & play regularizer that yields true robustness against adversarial attacks with linear time complexity.
- Led over 10 interns, students & research assistants; conducted a hands-on Pytorch tutorial at IISc.
Samsung Research, Bangalore, India
Intern
May 2018 – Jul 2018 | Mentor: Dr. Pinaki Bhaskar
- Developed an affective computing framework using speech and visual perception to deploy on a social robot.
- Designed a user-behavior-based feedback loop to personalize the robot’s responses and interactions.
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai, India
Intern (Practice School – 1)
May 2017 – Jul 2017 | Mentor: Dr. Bala Pesala
- Prototyped a wearable watch to detect fatigue in car drivers (using PPG signals – a non-invasive pulse monitoring technology).
- Developed an Android app for efficient realtime communication with the wearable device.
Academic Research
Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction
Physical Perception Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022 – Present | Advisor: Prof. Shubham Tulsiani
- Working on the reconstruction of novel views given a few (3-5) context views with approximate cameras.
- Developed a Transformer-based model that outperforms PixelNeRF on generalization and compute overhead.
Face Spoof Detection, CSIR-CEERI Pilani
Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 | Advisor: Prof. Santanu Chaudhury
- Implemented a fast stable face tracking algorithm that was used to collect facial data for detecting spoof.
- Trained a CNN-based model on self-collected face spoof data which achieved less than 6% false acceptance rate on the standard imposter detection task on the NUAA dataset.
- Extracted motion-robust remote PPG signals from a single RGB webcam for living skin detection.
- Recreated RGB images from Hyperspectral images with applications to PPG signal generation.
Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces, BITS Pilani
Jan 2018 – May 2018 | Advisor: Prof. Vandana Agarwal
- Explored the EEG Confusion Dataset to identify learner’s confusion in MOOC videos.
- Compared various classification methods such as like SVM, K-Nearest Neighbor, Gaussian Naive Bayes.
- Built an end-to-end Deep Learning pipeline using features from Band Power Estimation and LSTM, and trained a model that achieves much higher accuracy than those achieved previously on the dataset.
Threat Detection in Baggages using X-Ray Images, CSIR-CEERI
Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | Advisor: Dr. Dhiraj Sangwan
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- Primary study on detection of harmful objects (such as knives, bombs etc.) from X-Ray images of baggages
- Implemented a bag-of-words model with sparse KNN classification
- Trained and achieved better detection accuracy with a combination of CNN & SVM
Advanced Data Analytics and Parallel Technologies lab, BITS Pilani
Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | Advisor: Prof. Navneet Goel
- Studied Concurrent and Distributed Data Structures
- Parallelized algorithms using MPI and OpenMP in C++
Positions Held
AI Team Lead, Sally Robotics
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 | Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Sally Robotics is an Intelligent Mobility Research Team at CRIS, BITS Pilani
- Led the AI subsystem with research focus on Autonomous Motion Control using Deep Learning
Design Chair, ACM-BITS Pilani
Mar 2017 – Mar 2018 | BITS Pilani
- BITSACM won the best student chapter awards for 3 consecutive years
- Lead the design team, building the front end for Checkmate 2017 – an interactive quizzing game
Chief Design Officer, Conquest 2017
Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 | India
- Conquest is India’s first student run start-up launchpad, organized by Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), BITS Pilani
- Designed the branding for Conquest and CEL & was responsible for effective online campaigns to increase outreach
Co-Founder & Programming Lead, SoftSol
Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 | Mount Carmel School, New Delhi
- SoftSol was established as the computer club of the school
- Lead the programming division brought accolades to the school
Service
Peer Reviewer: NeurIPS (Outstanding Reviewer) (2021/22), Pattern Recognition (2021), TMLR (2022), Neurocomputing (2022), NCVPRIPG (2019)
Conference Volunteer: NeurIPS 2020/21, ICLR 2020
Teaching Volunteer, NSS – Computer Literacy Programme
Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 | India
- Taught elementary computer science concepts to underprivileged middle-school & high-school students
- Conducted hands-on programming sessions in C++, Python & HTML/CSS at Pilani Resource Center
Associations
AI Subsystem Lead, Sally Robotics
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018
Core Team Member, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), BITS Pilani
Feb 2016 – Present
Core Team Member, ACM BITS Pilani
Feb 2016 – Present
Core Team Member & Design Associate, Aarohan 2016
Aug 2015 – Aug 2016
Teaching Volunteer, NSS – Computer Literacy Programme
Aug 2015 – Dec 2015
Member, Model United Nations, Mount Carmel School
Apr 2013 – Apr 2014
Member & Vocalist, Indian Music Choir, Mount Carmel School
Apr 2005 – Apr 2014
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