Mentorship: People help people help people ...

Those who have mentored me:

Academics

• Dr. Minh N. Do
• Dr. Katie Driggs-Campbell
• Dr. Deming Chen
• Dr. David A. Forsyth
• Dr. Alexander Schwing
• Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury
• Dr. Gerald Wilson
• Dr. Yuting Chen
• Dr. Volkan Isler
• Dr. Victoria Interrante

Professional

• Pradyumna Narayana
• Gaurav Kumar
• Michael J Laielli
• David Julian
• Amit Goel

Those I have mentored:

• Aahan Thapliyal
• Kyle Li
• Jincan Ye
• Mentor Match Engine - Mentor high school students virtually every school year, 2022-2025
• IEEE TryEngineering - Mentor Elementary students virtually in STEM topics every school year, 2020-2025
• UIUC HKN - Ran course review sessions and held 1:1 tutoring sessions, 2018-2022

I have peer reviewed for the following venues:

• Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning 2026
• The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2025 - Reviewer Certificate
• Multimodal Learning and Applications CVPR Workshop 2024, 2025
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Journal (IEEE TCSVT)
• Unifying Representations 2024 Neurips (UniReps) - Received best reviewer award
• Machine Learning and Compression 2024 Neurips Workshop
• Safe Generative AI 2024 Neurips Workshop
• IEEE Conference on Robot Human Interaction (RO-MAN) 2023