Industry Experience

  • Research Scientist Intern — Audio GenAI
    Smule AI • Jun-Sep 2025
    Developing spatial audio generation capabilities with prompt-based control for real-time applications using modern generative modeling approaches. Building training infrastructure for multimodal audio synthesis models from scratch using distributed computing frameworks.
  • Research Intern — Audio/Video/LLM
    Microsoft Research • May–Aug 2024
    Developed coordination system for multiple MLLMs and LLMs to extract unified features through cross-modal attention between audio and video. Built multi-LLM pipeline for large-scale audiovisual learning using distributed computing frameworks. Research on unified audiovisual encoder accepted at EUSIPCO 2025.
  • Audio–Language Research Intern
    Bosch AI Research (BCAI) • Apr–Jul 2023
    Co-authored counterfactual audio–language method (ICASSP 2024); patent pending. Developed novel approaches for learning audio concepts from counterfactual natural language prompts.

Patents & Intellectual Property

  • Method and System to Train Audio Retrieval and Zero Shot Classification Systems with Counterfactual Prompts
    US Patent Application 18/379,518 • Pending
    Assignee: Bosch AI Research USA