I’m a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, working under the supervision of Dr. Adriana Kovashka. My research interests are Computer Vision, Multimodal Reasoning, and Generative AI. My current research is on:

• Generation and Evaluation of Persuasive Advertisement Images
  • Persuasiveness, Creativity, and alignment evaluation
  • Image generation for abstract text inputs
• Understanding Advertisement Images
  • Complex and Multi-step reasoning on images
  • Atypicality understanding of the images

News

• [August 2025] Our paper Face of Persuasion: Analyzing Bias and Generating Culture-Aware Ads is accepted to EMNLP 2025.
• [June 2025] Our paper CAP: Evaluation of Persuasive and Creative Image Generation (link) is accepted to ICCV 2025.
• [June 2025] I passed my proposal on topic of Understanding, Evaluating, and Generating Advertisement Content.
• [May 2025] I am joining Google as a Student Researcher in Fall 2025.
• [January 2025] I passed my PhD Comprehensive Exam.
• [December 2024] New preprint. CAP: evaluation of Persuasive and Creative Image Generation (link).
• [October 2024] Our paper Benchmarking VLMs’ Reasoning About Persuasive Atypical Images (link) is accepted to WACV 2025.
• [September 2024] New preprint Benchmarking VLMs’ Reasoning About Persuasive Atypical Images (link).
• [May 2022] Joined Cellanome as a Computer Vision Intern.