About
I’m a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Prime Video where I’m part of the Playback Intelligence Team. I’m interested in leveraging Applied ML/AI and Optimization techniques for problems in Internet Video including Adaptive Streaming, Content Delivery and Performance Observability. I received my PhD from USC where I was advised by Ramesh Govindan.
I’m also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at NCSU where I contribute to work on emergent Multimedia applications.
News
| 11/11/2025 | Issued US Patent No. 12470771 on a hybrid ABR controller deployed at scale at Prime Video. |
| 10/24/2025 | Invited talk at UC Irvine’s Computer Science Department Seminar, I was hosted by Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi. |
| 7/13/2025 | AZEEM, an efficient exploration-exploitation technique to tune video performance at scale was accepted for NSDI 2026. |
| 4/14/2025 | Serving on the NSDI 2026 TPC. |
| 3/28/2025 | Invited talk at RNP Brazil’s CT-MON Forum. I was hosted by Antonio (Guto) Rocha. |
| 11/26/2024 | Invited talk at Uni. of Toronto’s IEEE WIE Chapter on recent research work at Amazon Prime Video. |
| 10/29/2024 | Serving on the ACM CoNEXT 2025 TPC. |
Old News
| 8/5/2024 | Talk at SIGCOMM 2024 Industry-Academia session, provided a brief overview of Amazon Prime Video's science programs, followed by a panel discussion afterwards. |
| 5/3/2024 | SODA ABR Controller was accepted for SIGCOMM 2024. |
| 4/1/2024 | My team at Prime Video will welcome four PhD student interns for summer 2024. |
| 3/30/2024 | Serving on the NSDI 2025 TPC. |
| 3/28/2024 | Serving on the EMS Workshop TPC, collocated with SIGCOMM 2024. |
| 10/28/2023 | Invited talk at UC Santa Cruz on topics in Internet Video Research, I was hosted by Prof. Katia Obraczka. |
| 9/27/2023 | Talk at Prime Video's Career Week on emerging ML/AI themes in video streaming. |
| 6/28/2023 | Won Customer Obsession Award from Prime Video Experience Tech on development of a novel ABR algorithm for Livestreaming. |