Published 'Radial-VCReg: More Informative Representation Learning through Radial Gaussianization' at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models; 'Improving Pre-trained Self-Supervised Embeddings Through Effective Entropy Maximization' at AISTATS 2025; 'Squeezing Water from a Stone: Improving Pre-trained Self-Supervised Embeddings Through Effective Entropy Maximization' at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice; 'Self-Supervised Learning to Guide Scientifically Relevant Terrain Categorization in Martian Terrain Images' at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) 2022; 'Nonparallel emotional speech conversion' at Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) 2019; 'Pedestrian Detection in Thermal Images using Saliency Maps' at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) 2019.
Research Experience
Completed two research internships at Apple and one at Philips Lighting Research, working on topics ranging from scene understanding to audio processing.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, UMass Amherst, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller.
Background
Research interests include machine learning (self-supervised learning, unsupervised learning, information theory) and computer vision (scene understanding, object detection, tracking). A Ph.D. candidate at the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, supervised by Erik Learned-Miller. Has also worked with Mario Parente from RHOgroup and Ina Fiterau from InfoFusion lab.
Miscellany
In free time, loves experimenting with coffee brewing techniques (inspired by James Hoffman), going on long rides on his road bike, and listening to classic rock music (big fan of Queen).