Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (2010–2011).
- Awarded the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2012–2013).
- Received the Janet Fabri Prize (2013–2014) for outstanding dissertation in Computer Science.
- Published influential papers at top-tier venues, including:
- — 'Gemini 2.5: Pushing the frontier with advanced reasoning, multimodality, long context, and next generation agentic capabilities' (Google DeepMind, 2025)
- — 'JESTR: Joint Embedding Space Technique for Ranking Candidate Molecules for the Annotation of Untargeted Metabolomics Data' (Bioinformatics, 2025)
- — 'Scaling Laws of Synthetic Images for Model Training…for now' (CVPR 2024)
- — 'Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency' (ICLR 2024, Spotlight)
- — 'Improving CLIP Training with Language Rewrites' (NeurIPS 2024)
- — 'Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers' (ICML 2023)
- — 'MAGE: MAsked Generative Encoder To Unify Representation Learning and Image Synthesis' (CVPR 2023)