• I am a GenAI/ML Research Scientist @ Netflix working on Foundation Models at Netflix.
• I received my CS Ph.D. in Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Srijan Kumar.
• My research interests include Generative AI, Multimodal LLMs, Recommender Systems, and Adversarial ML.
• I enjoy playing tennis, working out, video gaming, and traveling in my free time!

What’s New?

• (Jan. 2025) My EB-1B (Outstanding Professors and Researchers) green card application has been approved! Excited to develop my career in the US for a long time :)
• (Dec. 2024) Our UniGuard paper is accepted to DAI 2025 workshop at AAAI. UniGuard is a novel multimodal safety guardrail that ensure safe LLM responses against adversarial prompts.

• (Sept. 2024) An intent-aware RecSys paper IntentRec is accepted to BayLearn - Machine Learning Symposium 2024! IntentRec improves next-item recommendations by finding a user session intent with hierarchical multi-task learning!

• (Aug. 2024) A adversarial defense paper FINEST is accepted to TKDD Journal! We enhance the stability of existing sequential recommender systems via a special fine-tuning method called FINEST!

• (July. 2024) A adversarial ML + RecSys paper ATR is accepted to CIKM 2024. We investigate the robustness of SOTA text-aware recommender systems against our proposed text rewriting attack ATR.