About me
I am a Research Scientist at the Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI in the World Model team. I am completing PhD at University of California, Davis - ECE Department, advised by Prof. Chen-Nee Chuah, focusing on Security and Privacy of Computer Vision.
Previously:
- Fall 2025: PhD ML Engineer 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 Ning Zhou.
- Summer 2023: PhD Research Intern at Sony AI - PPML 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 Mr. Hideshi Yamada.
Research Interests: Privacy-Preserving Computer Vision, Multi-Modal LLMs, Generative AI
Select Publications
Privacy-Complaint Human Data Synthesis in Images
Kartik Patwari*, David Schneider*, Xiaoxiao Sun, Chen-Nee Chuah, Lingjuan Lyu, Vivek Sharma*
IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) , May 2026
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Empowering Source-Free Domain Adaptation via MLLM-Guided Reliability-Based Curriculum Learning
Kartik Patwari*, Dongjie Chen*, Zhengfeng Lai, Xiaoguang Zhu, Samson Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , March 2026
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PerceptAnon: Exploring the Human Perception of Image Anonymization Beyond Pseudonymization for GDPR
Kartik Patwari*, Chen-Nee Chuah, Lingjuan Lyu, Vivek Sharma*
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , July 2024
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News
📄✅ Our paper “Privacy-Complaint Human Data Synthesis in Images for GDPR” is accepted at IEEE FG 2026 !
💼📊 Joined Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI (Sunnyvale, CA) as a Research Scientist! I will be working in the World Model team.
📄✅ One first-author paper is accepted at CVPR 2026 !
💪 Succedfuly completed my PhD exit seminar / defense.