Curriculum Vitae
Education
- M.Tech. in Computer Software Engineering — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India
- B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering — Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Department of CSE
- Lab affiliation: Center for Imaging Technologies.
- Controlla: controllability as graph-constrained latent geometry for identity-preserving multimodal affective control, with the AffectHuman-43K benchmark. [under submission, A*]
- KathaTrace: a generator-agnostic protocol for diagnosing semantic trajectory collapse in generated visual narratives, with KathaBench-25K. [under submission, A*]
- CAMMEL-ViT: context-aware memory with lightweight vision transformers for medical image segmentation. [MIUA 2026]
- Multimodal humor detection in videos via domain-specific representations and deep hybrid fusion networks. [Soft Computing 2026]
- FewShot-SPT: few-shot spatiotemporal perception transformer for unseen behavioral anomalies, deployed on edge hardware. [AVSS 2025, CORE A]
- AI Researcher — Verity Labs Inc. (AI-ACC-Stack)
- Modular AI backend stack: retrieval-augmented generation, LLM integration, document ingestion, tool-calling agents, structured querying, authentication, and deployable AI services.
- Faculty Mentor — Samsung PRISM (Samsung R&D)
- “Expression Correction in Photos”: GAN-based affective computing models for emotion-aware image enhancement. Certificate
- NextGen AI Datastore for Video Retrieval (May – Nov 2025, completed): vector database for multimodal video retrieval with vision–language embeddings. Certificate
- Assistant Professor — BNM Institute of Technology, Department of ISE
- Head, Google Cloud Center of Excellence.
- Assistant Professor — PES University, Department of CSE
- Lab affiliation: Centre for Data Science & Applied Machine Learning (CDSAML).
- Research Assistant — Indian Institute of Science, Department of CDS
- Intern — Amazon
Teaching
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CS52) — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Object Oriented Programming (CS34) — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Cloud Computing and Big Data (CS62) — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Introduction to Deep Learning (CSE631) — Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Selected Publications
- Under Submission KathaTrace: Diagnosing Semantic Trajectory Collapse in Generated Visual Narratives
- Under Submission Controlla: Learning Controllability via Graph-Constrained Latent Geometry
- SOCO 2026 Multimodal Humor Detection in Videos via Domain-Specific Representations and Deep Hybrid Fusion Networks
- MIUA 2026 CAMMEL-ViT: Context-Aware Memory with Lightweight Vision Transformers for Medical Image Segmentation
- AVSS 2025 · CORE A Towards Secure Video Surveillance: A Few-Shot Spatiotemporal Perception Transformer for Unseen Behavioral Anomalies
- MTAP 2025 Multimedia Video Analytics using Deep Hybrid Fusion Algorithm
- TVC 2024 A Smart Video Analytical Framework for Sarcasm Detection using Adaptive Fusion and SarcasNet-99
- WCMC 2022 ObjectDetect: A Real-Time Object Detection Framework for Advanced Driver Assistant Systems Using YOLOv5
- JIKM 2019 TwitSenti: A Real-Time Twitter Sentiment Analysis and Visualization Framework
- IJSWIS 2019 A Real-Time Twitter Trend Analysis and Visualization Framework
Complete list on the publications page.
Funding & Patents
- FitQua: Smart Water Bottle for AI-Based Health Tracking — DST-funded project
- Surgeon's Eye: Intelligent Video Analytical Framework for Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery — Patent
Academic Service
Reviewing
| Venue | Reviewing |
|---|---|
| NeurIPS | 2026 |
| AAAI | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
| AISTATS | 2026, 2027 |
| ICCV | 2025 |
| ECCV | 2026 |
| ACM Multimedia | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
| ACM Multimedia Asia | 2025, 2026 |
| Springer Nature Journals | Gold Reviewer, 2020 – presentScientific Reports · Journal of Big Data · Signal, Image and Video Processing · Discover Informatics · Language Resources and Evaluation · Discover Artificial Intelligence · International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · Discover Education · International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems · The Journal of Supercomputing |
Student Mentoring
- Smart India Hackathon 2023 — Winning team, as faculty mentor
- Unisys Innovation Program — Faculty mentor
- ICPC — Mentor and coach
- Samsung PRISM — Faculty mentor
Leadership & Memberships
- Faculty Sponsor, RIT ACM Student Chapter
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Lifetime Member, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Young Researcher Award, STEM Research Society (Nov 2024).
- 2023 Smart India Hackathon — Winner (as faculty mentor of the winning team), Ministry of Education, Government of India (Dec 2023).
- 2017 Best Master's Thesis Award, Ramaiah Institute of Technology (May 2017).
- 2016–17 TEQIP-funded Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Jun 2016 – Jun 2017).
Research Areas
Controllable Image Generation (Theory)
Controllability as latent geometry; graph-constrained optimal transport; evaluating meaning in generated images
Vision–Language Models
Cross-modal attention and fusion of vision, text, and audio; multimodal video understanding
Efficient Vision Transformers
Lightweight transformers for medical segmentation, edge video analytics, and real-time perception
Scalable AI Systems
Vision–language retrieval, RAG and tool-calling agents, streaming analytics, cloud deployment