About Me

I am a second-year Data Science Master’s student at UCSD, where I have had the privilege of working under the guidance of Prof. Manmohan Chandraker, Prof. Zhiting Hu, Prof. KC Claffy, and Dr. Ricky Mok. My research interests lie in the development of efficient foundational Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with a particular focus on building robust and human-centric social and embodied reasoning capabilities.
My current research has been centered on benchmarking VLMs as World Models, enhancing foundational models with spatial and material inference capabilities, and designing efficient network security systems.

Education

  • Master of Science in Data Science
    UCSD, 2023 - 2025
    San Diego, California, US

  • Bachelors in Chemical Engineering
    BITS Pilani, 2017 – 2021
    Pilani, Rajasthan, India

  • Minor in Data Science
    BITS Pilani, 2017 – 2021
    Pilani, Rajasthan, India