| Sep 24, 2026 | Pleased to share that our paper, HEART: Hyperspherical Embedding Alignment via Kent-Representation Traversal in Diffusion Models, on training-free, quick fine-grained subject and attribute control in diffusion models, was accepted to NeurIPS 2026! 🎉 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | A huge thank you to Purdue University for awarding me the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2026. 😸 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Excited to share that our paper, Now You See It, Now You Don’t — Instant Concept Erasure (ICE) for Safe Text-to-Image and Video Generation, on theoretically grounded instant concept erasure for safe text-to-image and video generation, was accepted to CVPR Findings 2026! 🎉 |
| Mar 01, 2026 | Absolutely thrilled to share that our paper Feedback Alignment Meets Low-Rank Manifolds: A Structured Recipe for Local Learning was presented as an Oral at WACV 2026, and received the Best Student Paper Award — Algorithms award! 🎉 |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Successfully did my PhD Prelims. Finally a candidate! |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Pleased to announce that our work Feedback Alignment Meets Low-Rank Manifolds: A Structured Recipe for Local Learning has been accepted to WACV 2026 as a Highlight! 🎉 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Our work, SlimDiff, on training-free, activation-guided hands-free slimming of diffusion models, is now available on arXiv! |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Our paper, CURE, on efficient subspace-based unlearning for safer diffusion models has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight paper. |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Presented our poster Local Learning in Low-Rank Space: a Feedback Alignment Perspective at CVPRW 2025 in the WiCV workshop! 🎉 |
| May 25, 2025 | Our work AlphaBlend: Hardware-Algorithm Co-design with Mixed-Alphabet Set Multipliers for DNN Workloads has finally been presented at ISCAS 2025. |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Our paper on local learning rules, LLS: Local Learning Rule for Deep Neural Networks Inspired by Neural Activity Synchronization, was presented at WACV 2025. |
| Aug 17, 2021 | I started as a Graduate Research Assistant/Fellow (Frederick N. Andrews Fellowship) at Purdue University! |
| Aug 09, 2021 | Left Samsung R&D, Bengaluru after 3 years. To the next exciting adventure, PhD, Purdue University! |