I am a Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, where I work on computer vision and multimodal approaches for driver-AI teaming. Our work focuses on developing novel methods to understand human behavior and provide interventions that improve driver safety.

Previously, I was a PhD student at Idiap and EPFL under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Marc Odobez. My research revolved around human-behaviour understanding using computer vision and multimodal data, with an emphasis on analyzing gaze and social interactions. During my PhD, I 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.

Before that, I worked as a Computer Vision engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Bangalore where I worked on computer vision methods for enabling an intelligent car interior. 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 comparisons 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 it’s summer program.

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

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