Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, working in the Human Sensing Lab under Prof. Fernando De la Torre. My research focuses on the intersection of neural reasoning and embodied models. Before joining CMU, I was a Staff Machine Learning Researcher at Qualcomm AI Research and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Autonomous Vision Group at the University of Tübingen, working with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger. I earned my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, advised by Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele and Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz. Prior to that, I completed my Master’s thesis in Algorithmic Data Mining at Saarland University under Dr. Jilles Vreeken, and received my Bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in India.
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Blog Posts
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Ego-MC-Bench and the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking Dataset SuiteWhy intervention -- not just post-hoc feedback -- is critical for real-world cooking guidance, and how Ego-MC-Bench and Ego-CoMist push AI assistants toward it.
June 2026 -
Interactive Task Guidance as a Testbed for Multimodal IntelligenceWhy continuous, streaming task guidance is a stronger benchmark for real-world multimodal assistants than turn-based chat.
April 2026
