Hello! I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (2023–) advised by Professor Jianbo Shi, and a visiting PhD student at Berkeley AI Research (Jan 2026–).
My research takes a bottom-up view of generative and perception models — looking at the data they consume, the representations they form, and the traces they leave in their outputs — to better understand and control how these models perceive, generate, and reason.
- Representation: the concepts these models encode, and how to discover, ground, and steer them.
- Explainability: tracing generative outputs back to the initial noise or source model.
I am supported by the NDSEG Fellowship, and have interned at Meta Superintelligence Labs (2025), Adobe Research (2024), and Meta FAIR (2022). I received my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science (Course 6-3) from MIT, where I conducted research at CSAIL and the Quest for Intelligence.
If you'd like to chat about research or collaborate, please reach out!
News
- Apr 2026: Accepted to the International Computer Vision Summer School. See you in Sicily!
- Feb 2026: Vibe Spaces accepted to CVPR 2026. See you in Denver!
- Jan 2026: SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Jun 2025: Started research scientist internship at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Oct 2024: Secret Seeds and Origin Attribution accepted to WACV 2025. See you in Tucson!
- Apr 2024: Awarded the NDSEG Fellowship (4.9% acceptance rate).
- Feb 2024: Amodal Completion selected as a CVPR 2024 Highlight. See you in Seattle!
- Jan 2023: Started my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. See you in Philly!
Selected Publications
Awards
Invited Talks
Service
- Founder, NSF ARNI AI Institute Emerging Researchers Group (2024–2026)
- Penn Vision and Learning Reading Group (2023–2025)
- GRASP Student, Faculty, and Industry (SFI) Seminar Committee (2024–2025)
- GRASP Lab Social Committee (2023–2024)
- Penn CIS 6800 Advanced Topics in Machine Perception (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)