I am an incoming Master of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV) student at Carnegie Mellon University (Robotics Institute). I previously graduated with a B.Tech in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. I am broadly interested in deep learning and machine learning research, particularly multimodal learning, vision-based models, and interpretability of model internals.

Previously, in the summer of 2024, I worked with Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri at IIT Hyderabad on Vision Transformers and explainability; in the summer of 2025, I worked with Prof. Vineeth Balasubramanian on faithful Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) for medical imaging; in the subsequent semester, I worked with Dr. Prasenjit Dey on diffusion-based sketch-to-face synthesis; and most recently, I worked with Dr. Anirban Chakraborty at the Visual Computing Lab (VCL), IISc Bangalore on training-free text-and-image-to-3D generation.

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News & Honors

• Ranked 7th out of 153 in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech) at NIT Rourkela.
• Accepted into thesis-based MSCS programs at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Davis, TAMU, and Penn State!
• Spending my final semester at IISc Bangalore, at the Visual Computing Lab (VCL) under Dr. Anirban Chakraborty!
• Accepted into the highly competitive ACM-IKDD Uplink 2025 program, where I will be working with Prof. Vineeth Balasubramanian on Reasoning in Vision-Language Models back at IIT Hyderabad.
• Accepted into the prestigious RISC 2025 program at the University of Maryland.
• Ranked 5th in the Capsule Vision Challenge 2024 as Team Seq2Cure, organized by CVIP 2024.
• Selected among 170 from 20,000+ applicants for the SURE program at IIT Hyderabad.

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Selected Projects