About

I’m currently building a startup so that takes a lot of my time, but I do have other interests, I swear.

My Research Interests

My research focuses on three main areas:

• Visual Understanding: How AI systems perceive and interpret visual information
• Agentic Capabilities: Building AI that can act on their environments, with a focus on vision tools
• Information Retrieval: Basically search, lots of image and video retrieval but also general web search

I also contribute to open source projects and love building tools that make AI more accessible and useful for everyone.

Stuff I’ve Done and Like to Do

• I went to Temple University for undergrad and grad school, finished with my PhD in Computer Science. At the same time I worked for 4 years as a Scientist at AWS mostly with the Life Sciences & Healthcare AI team. Led and worked on cool projects including building an AI platform to help map the human brain, AI data engineering workflows for medical document processing, and smarter indexing/search for large-scale image data.

• After school and AWS became a founder and still enjoy doing AI research

• Love traveling, been to 29 countries (hopefully 30 this year)!

• Was on a bollywood fusion dance team in college, was not on my bingo card but we learned

• Massive soccer fan, play every chance I get. Barcelona fan :)

What Drives Me

I think the world’s at an inflection point with AI. I want to be a part of the progress that uses AI to make the world better for people through creativity. If I can help people build the ideas they have in their imagination, then I’ll be happy when I’m chilling in my cabin by the sea.

Let’s Connect

I love meeting people who are passionate about AI, startups, or just building cool things. Feel free to reach out through my social channels, or drop me a message if you want to chat, collaborate on a project, or invest.