Recipient of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (2010–2011).
Awarded the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2012–2013).
Received the Janet Fabri Prize (2013–2014) for outstanding dissertation in Computer Science.
Published influential papers at top-tier venues, including:
— 'Gemini 2.5: Pushing the frontier with advanced reasoning, multimodality, long context, and next generation agentic capabilities' (Google DeepMind, 2025)
— 'JESTR: Joint Embedding Space Technique for Ranking Candidate Molecules for the Annotation of Untargeted Metabolomics Data' (Bioinformatics, 2025)
— 'Scaling Laws of Synthetic Images for Model Training…for now' (CVPR 2024)
— 'Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency' (ICLR 2024, Spotlight)
— 'Improving CLIP Training with Language Rewrites' (NeurIPS 2024)
— 'Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers' (ICML 2023)
— 'MAGE: MAsked Generative Encoder To Unify Representation Learning and Image Synthesis' (CVPR 2023)