Biography and academic profile
I am an Asst. Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Bhubaneshwar. I lead the RespAI Lab where we focus on research in LLMs, VLMs, AI Safety, AI Regulation, Model Editing, Machine Unlearning. My research has been published in ICML, KDD, AAAI, ACM MM, CVPR. My pioneering works had significant impact in the field of machine unlearning with 700+ citations. Our works Fast Unlearning [TNNLS], Zero-shot Unlearning [TIFS], and Bad Teacher [AAAI] are among top 10 highly cited papers in the field of machine unlearning. I regularly serve as a Reviewer to NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. Indexed in CSRankings. I am also part of the BrainX AI research community actively working on AI in Healthcare. Earlier, I was a PostDoc Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) where I worked with Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli. Long time back, I graduated in 2011 with a Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani.
