
Education
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Subjects
Multimodal Machine Learning, Temporal Reasoning in Video and Sensor Data, Cross-Modal Alignment, Multi-Agent Reasoning, Embedded AI
Achievements
BS in Computer Engineering (dual in Engineering Entrepreneurship) from UIUC (2021); academic exchange semester at EPFL (2019); NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2023-2026); IEEE Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors; Dean's List, Engineering James Scholar, and Chancellor's Scholar (2017-2021); Best Reviewer Award at the UniReps Workshop at NeurIPS 2024; publications at NeurIPS, IJCAI, CVPR, and RO-MAN
About
Abhi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, specializing in multimodal machine learning and temporal reasoning in videos and sensor data. His research spans cross-modal alignment, multi-agent reasoning, and robust multimodal machine learning. He is joining Waymo as a Machine Learning Engineer, previously completed research internships at Google, Netradyne, and NVIDIA, and has mentored undergraduate researchers since 2021.
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