About Me
I am a second-year PhD student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I am originally from Maharashtra, India. My research interest lies in designing deployable decision making systems. I work under Prof. Scott Niekum at Safe, Confident and Aligned Learning & Robotics (SCALAR) lab.
Prior to starting my PhD, I worked at Adobe, India in an applied machine learning (ML) research role (2020-2023). I worked on a variety of problem statements, including semantic analysis of PDF forms, explainability of reinforcement learning (RL) agents, image editing using language, video segmentation, and more. These projects introduced me to the fascinating world of ML technology, which has the potential to have a great positive impact on the world. During my time at Adobe, I had the opportunity to spearhead a project in collaboration with Georgios Theocharous and Prof. Nan Jiang, which further solidified my decision to pursue a PhD program.
Before joining Adobe, I completed my B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2016-2020).
In my leisure time, I like to read, paint, write, and explore. My goodreads reading list. Some of my paintings. Some random blogs (I am still improving my choice of topics and my writing in general :). As for my exploration in the US, I have been to quite a few attractions in the North-East -- Boston, Cambridge, Lake George, Cape Cod and NYC.
News
- (Oct 2023) Our work on video segmentation got accepted at BMVC 2023.
- (Sept 2023) I am excited to start my PhD at UMass Amherst.
- (Jan 2023) I am thrilled to share that our work on explainability of RL agents got accepted at ICLR 2023.
- (Nov 2022) Our work on advanced search in documents got accepted at WACV 2023.
- (Aug 2020) I am excited to join Adobe Media and Data Science Research team.
- (May 2020) I graduated from IIT Madras with a B.Tech. in EE.
- (Jan 2020) My internship work got accepted at ICLR 2020.
- (July 2019) I completed my research internship at Adobe Noida.
(Last updated: Sept 2024)