Professional Experience
Meta Reality Labs
Research Engineer | Pittsburgh, PA | June 2025 - Present
Data Pipelines for Training Embodied AI Agents
- Embody3D dataset release: Built QA tools, coordinated annotation of 1.6M videos, and curated 500 hours of high-quality data — 187 GitHub stars, 3 citations, adopted by internal teams for training.
- Built automated quality filtering algorithms to eliminate annotation bottlenecks and ensure high-quality data for training.
- Achieved 75% reduction in tracking error rate by designing a self-supervised data generation pipeline to train keypoint model.
Adobe Research
Research Engineer Intern | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2024
Scalable Pipeline for Training 3D Foundation Models
- Created a pipeline to convert synthetic mesh assets into relightable Gaussian Splats for training 3D Foundation Models.
- Wrote custom CUDA kernels to replace spherical harmonics with neural features for relightability and faster training.
- Scaled the training pipeline to 32 nodes and improved training time from 6 minutes per asset to 30 seconds.
Adobe Research
Research Scientist Intern | Bangalore, India | Summer 2022
Counterfactual Explanations of Visual Recommender Systems [Paper]
- Worked on counterfactual explanations for recommendation systems based on vision language models.
- Computed the minimal meaningful perturbation to an item’s image-embedding that would remove it from a user’s recommended list. Used CLIP to connect image features to textual labels to lend meaning to the perturbations.
- Work was accepted at WWW 2024 and a patent has been filed at USPTO.
Subex AI Labs
Machine Learning Intern | Bangalore, India | Summer 2021
Information Extraction from Unstructured Invoices
- Developed an end-to-end pipeline for multilingual invoice understanding and table extraction using object detection.
- Fine-tuned a multimodal document transformer model (LayoutLMv2) to extract form fields using token classification.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science in Robotics | May 2025
- Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Gkioulekas
- GPA: 4.11/4.0
- Relevant Coursework: Deep Learning Systems, Learning for 3D Vision, Robot Learning, Physics-based Rendering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering | June 2023
- CGPA: 9.24/10
- Minor: Machine Learning
- Relevant Coursework: Modern Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Photography