- Multiple papers published in top conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICML, ECCV, TPAMI
- Area Chair for NeurIPS, AAAI, ICML, and other international conferences from 2023 to 2026
- September 2023, Podcast with AI Business on 'AI and Generalization'
- July 2023, Organized the Vision and Language Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop in Paris
- June 2023, Keynote at AGI Conference 2023 on 'Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer than Second Graders?'
- May 2023, Public release of the SMART-101 dataset
- February 2023, Three papers accepted at CVPR 2023
- October 2022, Keynote on Neural Scene Representations for Multimodal Machine Intelligence at the SANE Workshop
- September 2022, Three papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022
- February 2022, Three papers (including one oral) accepted at AAAI 2022 (acceptance rate 15%)
- December 2021, Three papers at ICCV 2021 (including one oral), two at TPAMI, and one at AAAI 2021
- January 2021, Invited Talk on Dynamic Graph Representation Learning for Audio-Visual Scene-Aware Dialog at the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at MIT
- August 2020, Invited Talk on Sound2Sight: Audio-conditioned Visual Imagination at the ECCV 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Video Analysis
- June 2020, Co-organized Deep Declarative Networks, CVPR 2020 Workshop with Stephen Gould, Dylan Campbell, and Richard Hartley
- July 2020, One paper each accepted at CVPR, ICML, ECCV, TPAMI, and two at WACV 2020
- August 2019, One paper each accepted at CVPR, ICML, ICCV, TPAMI, and WACV 2019
- January 2019, Online talks: Learning Adversarial Peturbations for Action Recognition (ECCV 2018) and Sem-GAN for Image-to-Image Translation (WACV 2019)
- September 2018, Co-organized Visually Grounded Interaction and Language Workshop at NIPS 2018
- July 2018, Three papers at CVPR, one oral paper at ECCV and one WACV paper accepted in 2018
- June 2017, Selected for Outstanding Reviewer Award at CVPR, 2017
Research Experience
- Senior Principal Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian National University, Canberra
- 2014-2017, Research Fellow, Australian National University, Collaborators: Prof. Stephen Gould and Prof. Richard Hartley
- 2012-2014, Postdoctoral Researcher, Inria (Grenoble), Collaborators: Dr. Cordelia Schmid and Dr. Julien Mairal
- Collaborates with Prof. Suvrit Sra and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum at MIT
- Former Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Education
- PhD, 2013, University of Minnesota, Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
- Undergraduate (Honors) Degree, 2002, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut, India
Background
- Research interests include machine learning, computer vision, language modeling, and robotics
- Current research focuses: Large Language Models and Cognition, Multimodal Embodied Intelligence, Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Scene Graphs, Generative/Diffusion Models for Image/Video Synthesis, Contrastive/Self-supervised Learning, Non-convex/Riemannian Optimization on Matrix Manifolds