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MS in Computer Science

University of California San Diego

• Specialization: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

• CPI: 8.9/10

Research Intern

Professor Zhuowen Tu

• Developing a novel curriculum learning strategy to enforce layout-based controllability in diffusion models enabling developement of controlled generative models.

Research Intern

Professor Hao Su

• Introduced a dual-encoder VLA architecture with a language-aligned action tokenizer that preserves pretrained VLM features, boosting generalization and increasing task success by 40% over SOTA baselines.

Research Intern

Professor Yogesh Rawat and Vibhav Vineet

• Created the CosPlan benchmark for corrective sequential planning and proposed the Scene Graph Incremental (SGI) update method, a novel training-free technique that improves error correction by 5.2%.

Research Intern

Professor Yogesh Rawat and Vibhav Vineet

• Proposed the Dream of Thoughts (DoT) prompting technique, a novel multi-step reasoning approach that navigates model hallucinations to significantly improve the understanding of activity transitions.

Research Intern

Professor Yogesh Rawat and Vibhav Vineet

• Designed the CTx-Net compositional architecture for robust video understanding and introduced three benchmark datasets to systematically study and evaluate model performance under occlusion.

Enhancing Generalization in VLA Models by Preserving Pretrained Representations

• S. Grover, A. Gopalkrishnan, B. Ai, H. I. Christensen, H. Su, X. Li

Navigating Hallucinations for Reasoning of Unintentional Activities

• S. Grover, V. Vineet, Y. S. Rawat

CosPlan: A Benchmark for Corrective Sequential Planning

• S. Grover, V. Vineet, Y. S. Rawat

Revealing the Unseen: Benchmarking Video Action Recognition under Occlusion

• S. Grover, V. Vineet, Y. S. Rawat

• B.Tech Degree with Distinction (Mathematics & Computing), IIT Kanpur

• Academic Excellence Award, IIT Kanpur