About me

I’m a PhD candidate in Information Systems at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where I work in the Sound Interaction and Computing (SInC) Lab advised by Dr. Mark Cartwright. I expect to graduate in early 2027.

My research is in machine listening and audio representation learning. Recent work spans compositional audio representations, open-set audio classification, and audio-language models for sound design.

I’ve spent time as a research intern at the Speech & Audio Group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) and in the Sound Design AI Group at Adobe Research. Before my PhD I completed a Master’s in Music Technology at New York University and a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at NIT Tiruchirappalli.

Outside of research, I’m a vocalist and drummer, and I’ve performed across ensembles and Indian classical music productions.

Research interests

• Audio representation learning
• Audio-language models
• Machine listening and sound event detection
• Sound design and audio for interactive media

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