CV
PDF Last update: September 2025.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA — Expected 2025
M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India — 2019
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Kalyani Government Engineering College, India — 2016
Work Experience
- Graduate Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington — Aug 2020 – Present
- Conduct research in the CSS Lab, applying vision-language models for autonomous driving and improving latent representations for seamless navigation.
- Mentor undergraduate and master’s students, collaboratively publish papers, and manage lab projects.
- Teaching duties: grading, labs, and conducting doubt-solving sessions.
- Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad — Jul 2018 – May 2019
- Assisted in courses under multiple faculty members, gaining teaching and organizational experience.
Research Interests
- Security and robustness of perception systems in cyber-physical and autonomous systems.
- Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robust scene understanding.
- Generative modeling (Flow Matching, Diffusion) for environment and point cloud reconstruction.
- 3D scene reconstruction using Gaussian Splatting (3DGS).
Technical Skills
- Programming & Tools: Python, MATLAB, C++, C, CARLA (simulator).
- Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Diffusers, Transformers.
- Research Competencies: Research article writing, critical thinking, generative modeling, security analysis.
Awards & Scholarships
- Travel Grant — VehicleSec 2025, 2024
- Travel Grant — TAPIA 2023
- Travel Grant — CyberTractor Workshop 2022
- Travel Grant — CyberTruck Workshop 2022
- Best Paper Award — AutoSec 2022
- Second Best Paper Award — Computer Society of India (CSI), 2016
Service & Leadership
- Volunteer — NDSS VehicleSec 2024
- Volunteer — SC 2022
- Core Volunteer — SCRF & OurCS@DFW (2022)
- Organized Workshops at UTArlington — “SmartHome” (2022), “VehicleSec” (2023, 2024) at OurCS@DFW