I am currently appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Wyoming starting Fall 2025. Prior to that, I worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University. I also worked as an Assistant PRofessor in the Center for Visual Information Technology at IIIT-Hyderabad. I completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. Thesis committee: Dr. Arun Ross (Chair), Dr. Anil K. Jain, Dr. Selin Aviyente and Dr. Yiying Tong
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We have developed DiffClean that removes real and simulated makeup to assist with age estmation and face recognition to protect underage users from cyberharms Paper Our method FaceCloak protects face templates from reconstruction attacks and is accepted in IEEE FG, 2025 Paper Check out our paper on detecting near-duplicate face images using graph convolutional networks accepted in IEEE T-BIOM, 2025 Paper