I am a rising 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.