Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MS in Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.Tech (Hons.) in Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Experience
Graduate Researcher
ConvAI Lab / AIFARMS Institute, UIUC
Research Scientist/Engineer Intern
Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
AI Research Software Engineer, Robotics & Computer Vision
Brunswick Corporation I-Jet Lab, Champaign, IL
Computer Vision & Deep Learning Engineer Intern
Brunswick Corporation I-Jet Lab, Champaign, IL
Awards
Illinois Computes Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CS PhD Fellowship
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ashby Prize in Computational Science
Center for AI Innovation (CAII)
NCSA-NVIDIA Hackathon, 1st Prize
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - NVIDIA
Silver Medal
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Funded Projects
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
PI: Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Title: Friction for Accountability in Conversational Transactions (FACT)
Thrust: Friction and Accountability in Dialogue with Embodied Agents
Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE)
PI: Vikram S. Adve, Co-PI: Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Title: Multi-Agent LLM-Based Reasoning, Computation and Data Discovery for Decision Services
Mentoring Experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Advising undergraduate and graduate students in CS on multimodal reasoning and LLM alignment
Brunswick Corporation
I-Jet Lab
Mentored undergraduates on projects in machine perception and visual-inertial odometry
Academic Service
Conference Reviewer:
- NeurIPS 2024 – Present
- AISTATS 2024 – Present
- ICLR 2024 – Present
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2024 – Present
Journal Editorial Board:
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) - Student Volunteer
Affiliations
(Past & Present)
Computer Science
Adobe Research
ConvAI Lab
AIFARMS Institute
NCSA
Brunswick Corporation