Paper accepted in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE ICIP 2025
Paper accepted in 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025
Paper accepted in 3rd Workshop on Generative Models for Computer Vision, CVPR 2025
Paper accepted in 3rd Workshop on Image/Video/Audio Quality in CV and Gen AI, WACV 2024
Completed first-ever large-scale HDR subjective perceptual quality study on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Awarded prestigious Engineering Graduate Fellowship until 2027
Research Experience
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Background
Research interests: Theoretical foundations of generative models (e.g., Flows, Diffusion, and MLLMs) and their applications in efficient sampling, image/video quality assessment (QA), editing, and inverse problems. Collaborates with YouTube/Google Media Algorithms team in his PhD.
Miscellany
Excited to join Google Research as a Student Researcher in the LUMA team starting June 2025; Honored to be appointed as Assistant Director of LIVE at UT Austin in March 2025