I am currently working as a Associate Research Scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi. Previously, I was a Research Scientist at Kroop AI. I hold a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, where I was advised by Prof. Abhinav Dhall and Prof. Ramanathan Subramanian.

My research interests include human-centered AI, behavioral analysis, data augmentation, and multimodal learning.

Updates

• Apr 2026 — Organising the CASED Challenge at ICMI 2026.

• Feb 2026 — Delivered a guest lecture on Multimodal Fusion and Temporal Modeling in the Artificial Social Intelligence  course.

• Feb 2026 — Delivered a guest lecture on a Machine Learning Refresher in the Artificial Social Intelligence course.

• Aug 2025 — The MOCSE dataset was accepted at the MRAC Workshop, ACM Multimedia 2025.

• Jun 2025 — Joined New York University Abu Dhabi as an Associate Research Scientist.

• Jan 2025 — Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

• Aug 2025 — Joined Kroop AI as a Research Scientist.

• Jan 2025 — Started an internship at Kroop AI.

• Aug 2024 — Co-authored a paper accepted at ICPR 2024.

• Aug 2024 — Co-authored a short paper accepted at IEEE FG 2024.

• Nov 2023 — Paper accepted at the IEEE/CVF WACV 2024 Workshop.

• Nov 2023 — Paper accepted in IEEE Sensors Letters.

• Aug 2023 — Started an internship at Yamaha Motor Solutions India.

• Aug 2023 — Paper accepted at the DGM4H Workshop, NeurIPS 2023.

• Aug 2022 — Paper accepted at ACM ICMI 2022.

• Aug 2022 — Attended the Doctoral Consortium at ICMI 2022.

• Jul 2022 — Paper accepted to the Computational Paralinguistics Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2022.

• Aug 2022 — Co-authored a paper accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2022.

Awards

• Winner, EmoNeuroDB Challenge, IEEE FG 2024.

• Runner-up, Multimediate Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2023.

• Second Runner-up, REACT Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2023.

• Winner, Computational Paralinguistics Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2022.

• Travel Grant to attend the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022).

• Mukhyamantri Protsahan Yojana Scholarship, 2020.

• GATE Scholarship for pursuing a Master of Engineering (2017–2019).