I am a PhD student at Idiap and EPFL under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Marc Odobez. My research revolves around human-behaviour understanding using multimodal data, with an emphasis on analyzing gaze and social interactions. During my PhD, I have had the opportunity to intern at Meta Reality Labs Research in Redmond, where I collaborated with Calvin Murdock, Yijun Qian, Ruohan Gao, Ishwarya Ananthabotla and Vamsi Krishna Ithapu among others.

Previously, I worked as a Computer Vision engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Bangalore in the Intelligent Interior team, where I focused on human pose estimation and gesture tracking. I obtained both my Bachelors and Masters degrees from IIIT Bangalore. My Master’s thesis, conducted under the guidance of Prof. Dinesh Jayagopi (IIIT Bangalore) and Prof. Sriram Ganapathy (IISc), explored the comparison between second language acquisition in humans and machine learning models through the task of audio-visual retrieval. During my studies I also interned at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute through their summer program.

In my spare time I enjoy travelling, hiking and skiing.

I am graduating this summer and am on the industry job market. Please do not hesistate to get in touch for matching roles.

News:

• 01.2025 I presented an overview of my research at IIIT Bangalore and IISc Bangalore [slides]
• 09.2024 We have 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2024! See you in Vancouver
• 06.2024 I started an internship at Meta Reality Labs, Redmond to work on egocentric video understanding
• 06.2024 We won best paper at the GAZE workshop at CVPR 2024!
• 05.2024 We won best student paper at FG 2024!
• 04.2024 Our paper titled ‘Exploring the Zero-Shot Capabilities of Vision-Language Models for Improving Gaze Following’ has been accepted for the GAZE workshop at CVPR 2024
• 04.2024 I was invited to speak at the LiRi/NCCR Lunchtime Talk at the University of Zurich [slides]
• 03.2024 Our paper titled ‘Sharingan: A Transformer Architecture for Multi-Person Gaze Following’ has been accepted for CVPR 2024
• 03.2024 Our paper titled ‘A Unified Model for Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction’ has been accepted for FG 2024
• 09.2023 We presented a 3 minute overview of our research at EPFL’s EDEE Department Scientific Day [slides]
• 08.2023 Our paper titled ‘The AI4Autism Project: A Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Approach to Autism Diagnosis and Stratification’ has been accepted for the WoCBU workshop at ICMI 2023
• 07.2023 Our paper titled ‘ChildPlay: A New Benchmark for Understanding Children’s Gaze Behaviour’ has been accepted for ICCV 2023
• 02.2023 I visited the STARS team at Inria for collaboration on data and models