Published multiple papers such as CMAE (ICML), GridToPix (ICCV), CoMON (ICCV), LAW (EMNLP), ADVISOR (NeurIPS), etc. Received several awards including C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student 2021, AI2 Outstanding Intern of 2020, David J. Kuck outstanding MS thesis award 2019. Organized various workshops like 'CV 20/20: A Retrospective Vision' at CVPR 2024, 'Scholars & Big Models: How Can Academics Adapt?' at CVPR 2023, RoboAdapt Workshop at CoRL 2023, etc.
Research Experience
Worked at Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Labs, Carnegie Mellon University, and Skild AI, collaborating with Abhinav Gupta, Deepak Pathak, and Xinlei Chen. Internships at UMass Amherst, Uber ATG, Allen Institute for AI, FAIR (collab w/ UT Austin), Google DeepMind.
Education
2011-2016, IIT Kanpur; 2016-2022, UIUC, advised by Alex Schwing and Svetlana Lazebnik.
Background
Research interests: intersection of computer vision (perception) and robot learning (action). Personal background: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Miscellany
UC Irvine is a resourceful, friendly, safe, and warm ecosystem, ideal for learning, tinkering, and building AI systems.