• I am a Senior AI Researcher @ Netflix working on AI Foundation Models.
• I received my CS Ph.D. in Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Srijan Kumar.
• My research interests include Agents, Personalization, Multimodality, Safety, and Interpretability!
• I enjoy playing tennis, working out, video gaming, and traveling in my free time!

What’s New?

• (Oct. 2026) Our personalization work has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026 PALM Workshop! We represent Netflix content as “Semantic IDs” & study the best way to integrate such SIDs into LLMs for accurate and cost-efficient personalization.

• (May. 2026) Our multimodal post-training paper has been accepted to ICML Pluralistic Alignment Workshop! We show that LLM post-training with multimodal engagement and content data in Netflix is better than our production model, as per personalizing artwork (i.e., thumbnail)!

• (May 2025) Our foundation model FM-Intent has been published to Netflix Tech Blog and Netflix Research Homepage! FM-Intent is a production model that can predict a user’s intent on Netflix and leverage such user intent for next-item recommendation!

• (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.