Intelligent Agentic Systems
Building multimodal agents that plan, reason, and act robustly in open-ended tasks.
I am a PhD student and Powell Fellow in Computer Science at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Manmohan Chandraker. I am currently spending time working as a Research Scientist Intern with the FAIR team at Meta. I am supported by Powell Fellowship and UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Fellowship.
Before UCSD, I completed my Master's in Machine Learning at MBZUAI in the IVAL lab, advised by Prof. Salman Khan and co-advised by Prof. Fahad Khan, and mentored by Dr. Muzammal Naseer. I previously worked as a Research Associate II at MBZUAI. I also worked as a visiting student with Prof. Peter Wonka at KAUST.
Research Focus
World and Mental Models
Learning predictive internal models for simulation, decision support, and long-horizon behavior.
Spatial Reasoning
Developing representations and inference mechanisms for geometry-aware visual understanding.
Embodied AI
Designing grounded intelligence for perception, control, and interaction in physical environments.
Career Trajectory
2026 to Present
Meta
Research Scientist Intern, FAIR
2025 to Present
University of California, San Diego
PhD in Computer Science
2024 to 2025
MBZUAI
Research Associate II
2023
KAUST
Visiting Student
2022 to 2024
MBZUAI
MS in Machine Learning
2018 to 2021
Samsung
Machine Learning Engineer
2014 to 2018
NIT Srinagar
Bachelor's in ECE, Minor in CS
Recent News
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Jul 2026
RoboTALES is accepted at ECCV 2026! 🎉
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Jun 2026
Started my Research Scientist Internship with the FAIR team at Meta.
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Mar 2026
One paper is accepted at ML4RS workshop at ICLR 2026.
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Jan 2026
Agent-X is accepted at ICLR 2026.
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Sep 2025
Began my PhD in Computer Science at UC San Diego.
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Sep 2025
Placed 2nd in the research track at UC Berkeley's AgentX challenge.
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Jun 2025
Aurelia is accepted at ICCV 2025.
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Mar 2025
VideoGLaMM is accepted at CVPR 2025.
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Jan 2025
VANE-Bench is accepted at NAACL 2025.
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Mar 2024
Awarded ICLR 2024 Travel Grant.
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Oct 2023
Awarded NeurIPS 2023 Travel Grant.
Selected Publications
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ECCV 2026
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 -
ACL Findings 2026
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 -
ICLR 2026
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 -
ICCV 2025
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025 -
CVPR 2025
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 -
NAACL 2025
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2025 -
COLING 2025
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2025 -
WACV
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 -
MICCAI
27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024 -
ICLR
12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024 -
NeurIPS
37th Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 -
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BMVC
33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, (BMVC), London, UK. -
IEEE ICIP
IEEE ICIP 2024 -
ICSIP / ICRCV
Patents
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US-Patent
Academic Service
Conference Reviewing
- Regular reviewer at ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ECCV, CVPR, ICML, ICCV.
Teaching Assistant
- Vision-Language Foundational Models (CV806), Spring 2024, with Prof. Ivan Laptev.
- Deep Learning (AI702), Spring 2024, with Prof. Haris Khan.
- Statistical Inference and Causality (ML703), Fall 2023, with Prof. Kun Zhang.
- Machine Learning (ML701), Fall 2023, with Prof. Samuel Horvath.
Conference Volunteering
- Program volunteer at IEEE ICIP (Abu Dhabi).
Invited Talks
- May 2025: Delivered a talk on "Latest Trends in AI" at Abu Dhabi University.
- June 2024: Presented a talk on "Generative AI" for undergraduate CS students at the University of Jordan.
Awards and Honors
- Recipient of Powell Fellowship and Jacobs Engineering Fellowship at UCSD.
- Awarded CVPR 2025 Travel Grant.
- Awarded ICLR 2024 Travel Grant.
- Awarded NeurIPS 2023 Travel Grant.
- Full scholarship for MS in Machine Learning at MBZUAI.
- Selected as predoctoral fellow at Fatima Fellowship with Dr. Abubakr Abid.
- Received Harman Star Excellence award from Harman International India.
- Merit-based scholarship by Ministry of Minority Affairs, India.
- Secured 80th state rank in IIT-JEE Mains 2014.
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