I am a Research Scientist at the Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI on the World Model team. My current research focuses on video generation and world model pretraining, particularly improving model capabilities through large-scale video data curation, concept balancing, pretraining curricula, and data mixture design.

I completed my PhD in Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis in March 2026, advised by Prof. Chen-Nee Chuah. My PhD research focused on computer vision, multimodal learning, and security & privacy, with work spanning privacy-preserving visual learning, multimodal retrieval, domain adaptation, and generative models.

Previously:

• Fall 2025: PhD AI Researcher Intern at Cisco AI Defense (San Jose, CA) under Prashanth Arun.
• Spring & Summer 2025: Applied Scientist intern at Amazon Ring (Sunnyvale, CA) under Noranart (Sol) Vesdapunt and Dr. Ning Zhou.
• Summer 2023: PhD Research Intern at Sony AI - Privacy Preserving ML team (Tokyo, JP) under the mentorship of Dr. Lingjuan Lv and Dr. Vivek Sharma.
• Summer 2022: ML Research Engineer Intern at Sony - Imaging & Sensing (Tokyo, JP) under Hideshi Yamada.

Research Interests: World Models, Privacy-Preserving Computer Vision, Multi-Modal LLMs, Physical/Embodied AI

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