Experience (2007-Current)

🔬 Current Position (2022-Present)

• Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, India (June 2022 - Present)
  Working on Transformers, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Generative AI for Vision, Language, and Speech.

🎓 Academic Research Positions (2020-2022)

• Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium (March 2021 - June 2022)
  Multimodal Learning, Fairness/Robustness, and Explainable AI with Prof. Luc Van Gool.

• Postdoctoral Researcher at IIIT Hyderabad, India (Jan 2021 - March 2021)
  Multi-Lingual Machine Translation and Multimodal Transformers with Prof. C.V. Jawahar.

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Google Research India (Feb 2020 - Dec 2020)
  Vision Research, Representation Learning, and Interpretability with Dr. Gaurav Aggarwal.

🎓 Doctoral Studies (2015-2020)

• PhD Research Assistant at IIT Kanpur, India (Dec 2015 - Feb 2020)
  Research on Visual Question Answering, Visual Question Generation, and Visual Dialog under Prof. Vinay P. Namboodiri.
  Award: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by IUPRAI at ICVGIP 2020.

💼 Industry Experience #2 (2019)

• Data Scientist Intern at Microsoft R&D, India (May 2019 - July 2019)
  Multimodal Transformer for Active Tag Prediction in Bing-Vision Group.

💼 Industry Experience #1 (2012-2015)

• Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi, India (July 2013 - Dec 2015)
  Audio Processing and Multimedia on Tizen D2TV. Designed modules for IPTV including Dolby Digital audio switching, subtitle/teletext rendering.

• Associate Software Engineer at Harman International, Pune, India (July 2012 - July 2013)
  Audio post-processing algorithms for car acoustic systems using OMAP3530 processor.

🎓 Masters Studies (2009-2012)

• Research Assistant at IIT Bombay, India (Aug 2009 - July 2012)
  M.Tech. research in Electrical Engineering (Communication & Signal Processing) under Prof. V. Rajbabu.
  Worked on Texas Instrument DSP Lab projects.

💼 Early Career (2007-2009)

• Assistant Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro EmSyS, Mysore, India (Aug 2007 - Aug 2009)
  Power Converter Designer. Designed AC-DC and DC-DC converter modules using Flyback Topology and Active Clamp Technology.

📚 Teaching Experience at IIT Kanpur (2016-2019)

• Tutor: ESC201 - Introduction to Electronics (Autumn 2018, Autumn 2017, Summer 2017)

• Teaching Assistant: MSO201A - Probability and Statistics (Winter 2019)

• Lab Development Committee (Summer 2018)

• Departmental Post Graduate Committee (Winter 2018)

• Teaching Assistant: EE301A - Digital Signal Processing (Winter 2017)

• Teaching Assistant: EE604A - Digital Image Processing (Autumn 2016)

• ACES Library TA (Winter 2016)