At the University of California, Riverside (UCR), I am currently working on multiple projects aimed at making generative AI safer for everyone under the guidance of Prof. Amit Roy Chowdhury. My research includes topics such as safety alignment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and robust deepfake detection. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at IIT Hyderabad, advised by Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian, where I worked on topics like efficient transfer learning (work published at ICCV 23), building causality into neural network training (work published at AAAI 24) and causal discovery using large language models (work published at AAAI - W 24). Broadly, I am passionate about exploring multi-modal foundation models and large-scale intelligent systems moving forward.