Published papers at NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight), ICML 2025, ACL 2025 (Findings), ICLR 2025, NAACL 2025, ICASSP 2025, etc.; Received NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship and Apple Graduate Fellowship; Awarded UMD Graduate School's Outstanding RA Award; Co-hosting DCASE 2025 Task 5 with NVIDIA.
Research Experience
Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Research; Research Scientist Intern at Microsoft Redmond; Involved in multiple research projects such as MMAU-Pro, Audio Flamingo 3, etc.
Education
University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), Ph.D. in Computer Science, Advisors: Prof. Dinesh Manocha and Prof. Ramani Duraiswami (Started in Fall 2023)
Background
A 4th-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). Conducts research in the Gamma Lab under the mentorship of Prof. Dinesh Manocha and Prof. Ramani Duraiswami. Focuses on advancing multimodal intelligence, with an emphasis on audio—spanning speech, sounds, and music. Works on challenges such as building data- and compute-efficient audio models, improving audio representation learning, generating synthetic data, and enhancing perception and reasoning in AI systems.