About me

I come from Hyderabad, India and I work as a part-time marketing agent for Hyderabadi Biryani. I play Basketball and follow NBA religiously (Steph Curry is the GOAT btw). I love to read for fun and I struggle finding non-serious science fiction books like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Foundation Series and so I just end up reading a lot of non-fiction. If you have some suggestions please leave them at goodreads. Lately I have been developing some interest in old Telugu literature and also enjoying learning Piano on the Keyboard. I love Vivek Sagar’s music. Now if you want to know some boring stuff about me, read on.

I am a third year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California Santa Barbara, advised by Prof. Shivkumar Chandrasekaran. My research currently focusses on explainable AI and developing tools and theoretical frameworks to lower the barriers in deploying deep learning models into real world. I finished my Masters also at UCSB with thesis titled : “A study of Generalization in Deep Neural Networks”.

During the summer of 2022, I interned at Apple and worked on the Fall Detection feature. It was an amazing experience working at the Apple Park with brilliant people and enjoying Biryani on the weekends. During the summer of 2020, I worked as an Intern at Briteseed, Chicago, training neural networks on hyperspectral imaging data.

Before coming to the US, from 2016-2019 I worked as a Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi developing audio processing algorithms and ML models for predicting music genres from audio data. Prior to that, I graduated from IIT Roorkee in 2016 with a Bachelors degree working on developing low-cost display devices using Au/Ag Nanoparticles, advised by Prof. Brijesh Kumar and Prof. Sanjeev Manhas.