Misc

Awards

  • Best Paper Finalist
    • Event: ACMM 2020
  • Travel Grant
    • Event: ICMI 2014 (Doctoral Consortium)
  • Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award
    • Event: IEEE FG 2013
  • Best Paper Award
    • Event: EmotiW’13 Challenge, ICMI 2013
  • Runner’s Up
    • Event: EmotiW’13 Challenge, ICMI 2013
  • Travel Grant
    • Event: IEEE FG 2013
  • Jacobs Fellowship
    • Institution: UCSD
    • Year: 2010
  • DAAD- German Academic Exchange Service, Undergraduate Internship Award
    • Year: 2009

Patents

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Press Coverage

  • Coverage about my work being used in some SRI ventures:
    • Article taking about our work on multimodal recommendation being licensed to Vitrina.
    • Article talking about work done with GoCharlie.ai on creating multimodal LLMs for marketing.
  • Article about our work on leveraging LLMs for planning in robotic navigation tasks. There is also a YouTube demo.

  • Article about my work on using multimodal embedding models and other tools for improving social media discourse.

  • News about DARPA Civil Sanctuary program at University of Pittsburg news. I was the PI for this project.

  • Interview about my work on multimodal embedding by SRI media.

  • Coverage of my work on automatic pain detection from human faces in San Diego Tribune, Engadget, and Gizmag.

List of researchers supervised

I have been lucky to have mentored and worked with some excellent researchers over the years.

Name Year Affiliation (during supervision)
Amlan Kar Summer 2016 BTech IIT Kanpur
Nishant Rai Summer 2016 BTech IIT Kanpur
Ankan Bansal Summer 2017 PhD. Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Suhas Lohit Summer 2017 PhD. Univ. of Arizona
Julia Kruk Summer 2017-19 Bachelor’s in Physics at Cornell Univ.
Parneet Kaur Summer 2017 PhD.Rutgers Univ.
Samarth Tripathi Summer 2017 Masters at Columbia Univ.
Zachary Seymour Summer 2018 PhD. Binghamton Univ.
Samyak Dutta Summer 2018 PhD. Georgia Tech
Niluthpol Mithun Choudhary Summer 2018 PhD. Univ. of California Riverside
Saadia Gabrial Summer 2019 PhD. Washington Univ.
Jenny Hamer Summer 2019 PhD. Univ. of California San Diego
Pritish Sahu Summer 2020-21 PhD. Rutgers Univ.
Matthew Walmer Summer 2021 PhD. Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Matthew Gwilliam Summer 2023 PhD. Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Yangyi Chen Summer 2023 PhD. Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PengFei Yu Summer 2023 PhD. Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign