[{'Award': 'IAAI 2025 AI Incidents and Best Practices Best Paper Award', 'Paper': 'Evaluation and Incident Prevention in an Enterprise AI Assistant'}, {'Award': 'ACM MIG 2022 Best Paper Award', 'Paper': 'Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features'}, {'Award': 'UMD Invention of the Year Award 2022 Nominee', 'Project': 'Deepfake Detection Tool'}, {'Award': 'UMD Invention of the Year Award 2021 Nominee', 'Project': 'M3ER: Multiplicative Multimodal Emotion Recognition'}, {'Award': 'ACMMM 2021 Best Paper Award Nominee', 'Paper': 'Speech2AffectiveGestures: Synthesizing Co-Speech Gestures with Generative Adversarial Affective Expression Learning'}, {'Award': 'IEEE VR 2021 Best Paper Award', 'Paper': 'Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents'}, {'Award': 'Adobe Research Fellowship', 'Year': '2021'}]
Research Experience
[{'Position': 'Research Scientist', 'Company': 'Adobe Inc.', 'Time': 'September 2022 - Present'}, {'Position': 'Research Intern', 'Company': 'Google LLC', 'Time': 'May 2022 - August 2022'}, {'Position': 'Research Intern', 'Company': 'Adobe Inc.', 'Time': 'May 2021 - August 2021, May 2020 - March 2021'}, {'Position': 'Research Associate', 'Company': 'Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India', 'Time': 'July 2017 - May 2018'}, {'Position': 'Software Engineer Intern', 'Company': 'Tata Consultancy Services Innovations Lab, Kolkata, India', 'Time': 'June 2014 - July 2014'}]
Background
Research interests include affective computing and human motion recognition and synthesis. Currently a Research Scientist at Adobe Inc., working on the development and evaluation of generative AI models for multimodal content synthesis.
Miscellany
Invited Talks:
- Current Trends in 3D Pose and Motion Generation (Purdue University, ACM@UMD Speaker Series)
- Affective Human Motion Detection and Synthesis (University of Southern California)