Biography
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the CSE Department at University at Buffalo, where I am advised by Dr. Venu Govindaraju. I am a part of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) Lab, where I also work as a research assistant. My research is funded by the IARPA BRIAR, NSF AI Institute, QualComm, NSF CITeR, NSF DiBBS, and NSF S&CC programs.
I received my Masters (MS) degree from University at Buffalo, and Bachelors degree from SGSITS Indore. I am currently interning at Yahoo Research as Research Scientist intern where I am mentored by Paloma De Juan and Joao Soares. Previously, I have also worked as a Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Research, where I was fortunate to be mentored by Kushal Kafle, Scott Cohen and Zhe Lin. I was awarded the Best Paper Award at IJCB 2023 , Graduate Leadership Award 2023, Russell Agrusa Research Innovation Award in 2021 and best CSE PhD Poster and SEAS PhD Poster Award in 2022.
- Dec 2023: Honored to receive the Graduate Leadership Award, from Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo
- Sept 2023: CoNAN received the Best Paper Award at IJCB 2023. Link
- July 2023: Glad to share our paper title: 'CoNAN - Conditional Neural Aggregation Network for Unconstrained face recognition' has been accepted at IJCB 2023.
- May 2023: Started summer internship at Yahoo Research as a Research Scientist.
- April 2023: Glad to share our paper 'RealCQA - Scientific Chart Question Answering as a Test-bed for First-Order Logic' got accepted at ICDAR 2023.
- April 2023: Presented my work on spatio-temporal fingerprint spoof detection at CITeR-EAB workshop at Idiap, Switzerland.
- Feb 2023: Honored as one of the winner of SEAS PhD Research Poster Award 2023, by School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, at University at Buffalo
- Feb 2023: I will be co-organizing the IJCB LivDet 2023 Challenge on detecting contactless fingerprint spoofs.
- Feb 2023: Our book chapter on Deep Metric Learning in Handbook Of Statistics is now available online.
- Jan 2023: Met with SUNY Chancellor Dr. John B King (Former US Secretary of Education) as part of his visit to UB.
- Jan 2023: Presented our two papers (NAPReg and Hear The Flow) at WACV 2023 in Hawaii.
- Dec 2022: Awarded Best CSE PhD Poster Award 2022 by University at Buffalo
- Dec 2022: Presented our work on multi-modal fusion and feature aggregation (CoNAN) at IARPA BRIAR program review
- Nov 2022: Presented our work on fingerprint spoof detection through temporal learning at NSF CITeR's Fall 2022 Conference
- Oct 2022: Glad to share our paper 'NAP Regularization' got accepted at WACV 2023
- Oct 2022: Glad to share our paper 'Hear the Flow' got accepted at WACV 2023
- Oct 2022: Glad to share our paper on attribute de-biased vision transformers (AD-ViT) got accepted at AVSS 2022
- Oct 2022: Presented our paper on RidgeBase dataset at IJCB 2022
- Sep 2022: Our dataset RidgeBase is now available for public use
- Sep 2022: Presented our work on contactless fingerprint recongition at FedID conference
- Jun 2022: Won of the winners of Adobe Code Jam 2022
- May 2022: Started summer internship at Adobe Research as Research Scientist
- Dec 2021: Awarded Russell Agrusa Research Innovation Award
- Oct 2021: Won Blackstone launchpad Best Idea Award 2021
- Aug 2021: Started serving as the President of Computer Science Graduate Student Association
- Jun 2021: Glad to share our paper 'MultiLoss Fusion For Contactless Fingerprinting' got accepted at WIFS 2021
- Jan 2021: Won Govt. of British Columbia's Maple Ridge Hackathon
Interests
- Computer Vision
- Vision Language Alignment
- Deep Metric Learning
- Multi-modal Learning
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning For Biometrics
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2024
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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B.E. in Information Technology, 2019
SGSITS Indore
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Secondary School, PCM - CS, 2015
S.T. Paul H.S. School Indore
