what's a good metric for PhD Students?
So, I started my PhD in CS at Georgia Tech in Fall 2023. It’s only been around 16 months, but it feels more like several years in deep learning research trends.
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, advised by Professor Humphrey Shi. I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering in 2023 at IIT Roorkee.
In the past, I have interned at Microsoft Research, Redmond (Summer 2024, with Dr. Jianwei Yang) and Picsart AI Research (Summer 2021-22, with Dr. Humphrey Shi).
My current research interests revolve around multimodal systems. Presently, I am looking at developing Agent Models leveraging LLMs and principles from cognitive neuroscience. I am also interested in representation learning, efficiency, and various real-world applications of multimodal systems.
My recent works are based on analyzing and improving the visual perception ability in Multimodal Large Language Models [OLA-VLM, VCoder], building upon my experience from working on developing models for dense prediction tasks [OneFormer, SeMask].
Reach out if you are interested in my research or would like to discuss any ideas. If you are a self-motivated researcher who's looking for guidance on one of your projects, feel free to drop me an email with a brief description about your (manifested) research project.
I am seeking internship opportunities starting in Summer 2025. If you have any openings, please reach out to me!
Professional Life Happenings
- [December 2024]: Checkout my new blog what's a good metric for PhD Students?! 📜
- [December 2024]: Checkout out OLA-VLM, result of my internship at Microsoft Research, Redmond! 🚀
- [May 2024]: Excited to start Summer Internship at Microsoft Research, Redmond! 🧑💻
- [February 2024]: VCoder is accepted to CVPR 2024! See you in Seattle! 🥂
- [August 2023]: SeMask is accepted to NIVT Workshop at ICCV 2023! 🥂
- [July 2023]: Graduated from IIT Roorkee with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering! 🎓
- [June 2023]: I will be joining Georgia Tech as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science in Fall 2023! 🥂
- [February 2023]: OneFormer is accepted to CVPR 2023! 🥂
Featured Publications
Blogs
Ascending the Research Trail
In case you missed it, I shared my experience as a rookie undergrad researcher in a previous blog: Riding the Noisy Research Track. Since then, I have grown from a rookie researcher into a more mature beginner researcher with a better outlook on the bigger picture in research (thinking beyond publishing a paper) owing to my close collaboration with the SHI Labs in the last couple of years.
Summer Diaries: Intern Diary of an Undergrad DL Researcher
This summer, I worked as a remote research intern at SHI Lab @ University of Oregon (UO) and Picsart AI Research (PAIR). I joined the SHI Lab to work with Professor Humphrey Shi in November 2020 during my second year and continued my work there during the summers, and I joined PAIR during the summers (June 2021).
The Contemporary Overthinking Problem
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the following lockdowns and stay & work from home situations, the concept of Overthinking has gained popularity. Moreover, now and then, I find the gen-z people (and even me sometimes) replying to “What you doing?