I am a fourth-year PhD candidate at Columbia University advised by Carl Vondrick. My research vision is to authentically emulate the varied facets of human behavior in our dynamic world. Concretely, I work on understanding and synthesizing humans by learning 3D representations of human-centric interactions. My research is supported by the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship, and Columbia Presidential Fellowship.
I completed my Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2020 where I was advised by Devi Parikh. During my Masters, I worked on creative AI (see my Masters thesis) and making vision-language models consistent. I also collaborated with Ani Kembhavi at AI2. In 2018, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) in India.
I have been fortunate to intern at University of Tübingen (2024) with Gerard Pons-Moll, Meta Reality Labs (2023) with Weipeng Xu, UC San Diego (2020) with Xiaolong Wang, and AiBee (2019) with Chunhui Gu. At Columbia, I co-organize the Vision, Interaction, Graphics & Robotics (VIGR) seminar. In my free time, I enjoy listening to and practicing Indian classical music, hiking and playing boardgames.
News
- [May '24] Started an internship at University of Tübingen, Germany 🇩🇪
- [Mar '24] Successfully passed my PhD Candidacy exam (Committee: Carl Vondrick, Shree Nayar, Rich Zemel) 📚
- [May '23] Started an internship at Meta Reality Labs, Pittsburgh 🤖
- [Dec '23] Awarded the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship
- [Apr '22] Attended the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2022 in New Orleans 👩💻
- [Mar '21] Awarded the Columbia University Presidential Fellowship 🏛️
Research
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How Video Meetings Change Your Expression Sumit Sarin, Utkarsh Mall, Purva Tendulkar, Carl Vondrick
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ECCV 2024 -
FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps Purva Tendulkar, Dídac Surís, Carl Vondrick
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CVPR 2023 -
Affective Faces for Goal-Driven Dyadic Communication Scott Geng*, Revant Teotia*, Purva Tendulkar, Sachit Menon, Carl Vondrick
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arXiv 2023 -
Revealing Occlusions with 4D Neural Fields Basile Van Hoorick, Purva Tendulkar, Dídac Surís, Dennis Park, Simon Stent, Carl Vondrick
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CVPR 2022 (Oral) -
Feel The Music: Automatically Generating A Dance For An Input Song Purva Tendulkar, Abhishek Das, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Devi Parikh
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ICCC 2020 (Oral)
Teaching & Mentorship
Courses
Teaching AssistantColumbia University
Mentorship
Columbia University
Barnard College
Amazon & Colubmia University