I work as a Lead ML Scientist at Adobe. I was previously at Alexa AI and Artificial General Intelligence orgs of Amazon as a Senior Applied Scientist. I have a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, USA, and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. My research interests are in Deep Learning, Representation Learning, Adversarial Learning, Generative AI, and their applications.
Lead ML Scientist • July 2024 - Current
I currently work as a Lead ML Scientist at Adobe Sensei & Search.
Senior Applied Scientist • June 2020 - July 2024
I worked as a Senior Applied Scientist in Alexa AI and Artificial General Intelligence orgs.
Research Assistant • Aug 2017 - May 2019 • Aug 2019 - May 2020
I worked as a Research Assistant to my PhD advisor, Prof. Premkumar Natarajan, at the USC ISI Center for Video Image Speech and Text Analytics (VISTA). I worked on robust and fair representation learning in deep neural networks and on semantic integrity assessment of multimedia data.
Applied Scientist Intern • May 2019 - Aug 2019
I worked as an Applied Scientist Intern in the Natural Understanding team of Alexa AI.
Deep Learning Intern • May 2016 - Aug 2016 • May 2017 - Aug 2017
I worked with the Data Analytics Platform team on various use-cases of machine learning and deep learning to improve their service and monitor their systems, involving anomaly detection and forecasting, as well as image segmentation.
Teaching Assistant • Jan 2017 - May 2017
I worked as a Teaching Assistant for USC CSCI 104L (Data Structures and Object Oriented Design). I helped oranize lab sessions, held office hours and graded assignments and tests.
Research Assistant • Aug 2014 - Apr 2016 • Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
I worked as a Research Assistant to my then PhD advisor, Prof. Raghavendra, in the Predictive Analytics lab. I worked on projects involving oilfield and healthcare data.
Visiting Research Scholar • May 2013 - Jul 2013
I worked with Prof. Knoblock and his team on the task of predicting the next location of a smartphone user using sparse GPS data. I also worked on designing workflows for adding Data Mining features to their Data Integration project, Karma.
PhD in Computer Science• May 2020
I completed Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at University of Southern California. My research interests include Machine Learning applications in multiple domains with a focus on Deep Learning, Representation Learning, Adversarial Learning, Visual Semantics and Healthcare. I was advised by Prof. Premkumar Natarajan.
BTech in Computer Science and Engineering • Gold Medalist • May 2014
I completed Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering with the Gold Medal at National Institute of Technology Calicut, India.