Multiple papers accepted to top-tier conferences including NeurIPS’25, ICCV’25, CVPR’25, ICLR’25, and ECCV’24 on topics such as Stable Video 3D/4D, 4D facial avatars, material editing, and text-to-3D generation
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR’23
Best Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR’18
Nvidia Pioneering Research Award (2018)
Outstanding Reviewer Awards at CVPR (2017–2019) and ECCV’16
Served as Area Chair or Meta-Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ECCV, etc.
PhD thesis committee member for students at UMass and UC Merced
All India Rank 121 in AIEEE’05 (700K+ candidates); State Rank 306 in EAMCET’05 (150K+ candidates)
Recipient of Pratibha Scholarship (Andhra Pradesh), CBSE and government academic scholarships
One of 50 finalists nationwide for Reliance-Stanford Scholarship (2011)
Selected as a member of India’s 100-person Youth Delegation to China (2009)
Research Experience
Chief AI Officer at Arcade AI
VP Research at Stability AI
Researcher at Google Research
Researcher at Nvidia Research
Guest lecturer at institutions including UC Merced and Arizona State University
Delivered invited/keynote talks at CVPR workshops and universities on 3D generative models and diffusion adaptations