About Me

I'm an ELLIS PhD student at The Max Planck Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and The University of Edinburgh, advised by Prof. Vera Demberg and Prof. Timothy Hospedales. Before this, I worked at Micron Technology as a Data Scientist after completing my MSc. in Data Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute. I had the opportunity to collaborate with eminent researchers like Prof. Sriparna Saha, Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Prof. Adam Jatowt on multimodal learning, model augmentation and temporal understanding of LLMs (details).

My research lies at the intersection of multimodal understanding and pragmatic reasoning. I am interested in how language, audio, and visual signals interact to convey implicit intent and reason about it. More broadly, I work on multimodal information fusion in VLMs, evaluating multimodal systems and open-ended reasoning and studying issues such as bias, hallucination and robustness.