I am an Assistant Professor at Boston University in the Department of Computer Science . I am also an Affiliated Faculty with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences and an academic collaborator with Runway. My research interests are in building safe, interpretable, and robust computer vision systems and also on improving their reasoning capabilities.
News
- Interviewed by Computer Vision News on my research trajectory.
- Received the NAIRR Deep Partnership program award!
- Gave two talks at ICCV’25, one on interpretability of generative models at Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? , another on the techniques to improve fine-grained prompt alignment of generations at Computer Vision in Advertising and Marketing
- Received Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship award from Boston University for the years 2025-2028 for conducting interdisciplinary work!
- Serving as a senior Area Chair for CVPR’26!
- I served as one of the chairs for the Broadening Participation at CVPR’25. Our goal was to identify students who don’t have the financial means to attend and support them.
- I’ll be speaking at Scalable Generative Models in Computer Vision and WorldModelBench: The 1st Workshop on Benchmarking World Models at CVPR’25
- Named Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) Faculty Fellow in 2024.
My Research Group
PhD students
- Dahye Kim (2024 - )
- Tianle Chen (2024 - )
- Nicholas Ikechukwu (2024 - ) (co-advised with Bryan Plummer )
- Xavier Thomas (2025 - )
- Youngsun Lim (2025 - )
- Manushree Vasu (2025 - )
MS Students
- Mohammed Ifreen (2025 - present)
- Chaitanya Chakka , Masters Thesis, (2025 - present)
Undergraduate Students
- Zachary Meurer (Fall 2025)
- Jason Qiu (Fall 2025)
- Michael Wakeham (Spring 2026)
- Ryan Gilbert (part of UROP Spring 2025)
High school Students
- Audrey Zhang (RISE Mentee, Summer’25)
- Ananya Srinivasan (volunteer, Summer’25)
Note to prospective students:
- If you are currently a MS student at BU and are interested in working with me, please first take either CS599 (Advanced Topics in Computer Vision) or CS542 (Principles of Machine Learning) , or CS541 (Applied achine Learning) . I do not recruit students who haven’t first taken one of these courses. Please do not email me before taking these courses.
- If you are interested in applying to BU as a PhD student and are interested in working with me, mention my name in your application. It is not necessary to contact me and attach your application.
- Due to large volumes, I am unable to respond to your emails.