I'm an Applied Scientist II on the Amazon AGI team, building large-scale multimodal foundation models: systems that see, read, reason, and generate across modalities. I am a core contributor to Amazon Nova family of Foundation Models (Nova 1 Family; Nova 2 Family).
I earned my Master's in ECE from UIUC, explored multilingual speech recognition problems at IISc Bangalore, and shipped fraud detection systems at Discover Financial Services.
Beyond my work in AI, I'm also a competitive speedcuber: one of the few who can solve a 3x3 in under 10 seconds.
Over the years, I've shared this passion with many by teaching them how to solve the cube. Turns out, the cube teaches far more than just bringing six colors together. Curious what I mean? My friend and fellow speedcuber Dr. Bhargav Narasimhan captures it well in this piece.
The cube has been a constant in how I think about problem decomposition, pattern recognition, and the discipline of optimizing one algorithm at a time.
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- [Dec 2025] We launched Amazon Nova 2: Multimodal reasoning and generation models, which includes Nova 2 - Lite, Pro, Omni, Sonic
- [Sep 2025] Reviewer, AAAI 2026
- [May 2025] We launched Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation
- [Apr 2025] Promoted to Applied Scientist II at Amazon AGI
- [Dec 2024] We launched the Amazon Nova Family of Foundation Models
- [Dec 2023] Started as an Applied Scientist on the Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Team
- [Aug 2023] Project "Can the decoded text from automatic speech recognition effectively detect spoken grammar errors?" accepted at SLaTE workshop, Interspeech 2023
- [Feb 2023] Started as a Senior Data Scientist with the Fraud Strategy Team at Discover Financial Services
- [Dec 2022] Completed my Master's in ECE from UIUC
- [Oct 2022] "Towards Reasoning Aware Explainable VQA" accepted at TSRML workshop, NeurIPS 2022
- [May 2022] Started as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa
- [Oct 2021] Project "A study on native American English speech recognition by Indian listeners with varying word familiarity level" accepted at O-COCOSDA 2021
- [Aug 2021] Started my Master's in ECE (Machine Learning, Signal Processing) at UIUC
- [Jul 2021] Project "MUCS 2021" accepted at Interspeech 2021
- [Jul 2020] Started as a Junior Research Fellow at SPIRE Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
- [Apr 2019] Project "ILocUS"" accepted at IMICPW Conference, 2019
- [May 2019] Started as a Mitacs Globalink Research Scholar at IBME, UNB, Fredericton, Canada
- [Jan 2019] Awarded the Mitacs Globalink Research Scholarship
