I’m a Computer Science PhD candidate at Cornell Tech advised by Prof. Rajalakshmi Nandakumar. My research interests span wireless sensing, computer vision and multimodal sensor fusion for applications in scene understanding, human-centered sensing, and affective computing. Previously, I completed my Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, advised by Prof. Achuta Kadambi at the Visual Machines Group. I also completed my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Economics at UCLA, funded by the NSF REU Fellowship. I’ve received the Intel URP Scholarship, SRC URP Scholarship, UCLA ECE Distinguished Master’s Thesis, and UCLA ECE Outstanding Master’s Student awards.

Latest Updates

June 2023: Received UCLA ECE’s Distinguished MS Thesis and Outstanding MS Student awards.
April 2023: I will attend Cornell’s CS PhD program, advised by Prof. Rajalakshmi Nandakumar.
January 2023: SIGGRAPH 2022 paper covered by UCLA Newsroom, Daily Bruin, and Forbes.
August 2022: Co-presented poster at SIGGRAPH (Vancouver, BC) and ICCP (Pasadena, CA).
June 2022: Attended CVPR (New Orleans, LA).
May 2022: Journal paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2022.
January 2022: Awarded the VMG GSR Scholarship.
June 2021: Awarded the NSF REU Fellowship.
May 2021: $1M DARPA grant accepted for “Equitable Remote Health Sensing.”
September 2020: Awarded the SRC URP and Intel URP Scholarships.

Publications

Blending Camera and 77 GHz Radar Sensing for Equitable, Robust Plethysmography.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).
Alexander Vilesov^*, Pradyumna Chari^*, Adnan Armouti*, Anirudh B. H., Kimaya Kulkarni, Ananya Deoghare, Laleh Jalilian, and Achuta Kadambi.

Patents

Systems and Methods for Measuring Vital Signs Using Multimodal Health Sensing Platforms.
U.S. Patent 0,233,091.
Kadambi, A., Jalilian, L., Chari, P., Talegaonkar, C., Karinca, D., Cannesson, M., Kabra, K., Salehi-Abari, O., Kita, A., Armouti, A.

MMHEALTH: Multimodal Health Sensing Platform.
US Provisional Application 63/177,229.
Kadambi, A., Jalilian, L., Abari, O., Cannesson, M., Kita, A., Chari, P., Armouti, A.