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PhD application CV — Dhwanil R. Chauhan. Graduate Researcher at CIVS, Purdue University Northwest. Agentic AI · Multimodal Reasoning · Embodied AI · Robustness & Evaluation.
Contact Information
| Name | Dhwanil R. Chauhan |
| Professional Title | Graduate Researcher · Intelligent Agents & Multimodal Reasoning |
| chauha56@purdue.edu |
Professional Summary
Graduate researcher at the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), Purdue University Northwest. I study intelligent agents that operate in complex environments with multimodal, incomplete, and unreliable information. My work spans environment understanding, multimodal robustness, interactive information gathering, and agentic decision-making.
Experience
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2024 - present Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN
Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS)
Research at the intersection of multimodal AI and industrial safety, in partnership with the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC).
- Built a conversational AI system guiding supervisors through structured incident capture via natural dialogue, replacing fragmented manual safety reporting across incident types spanning crane failures, pinch points, and equipment damage. (AISTech 2025)
- Developed a multi-camera spatial reasoning system dynamically redefining safety zone boundaries from live equipment positions, enabling proactive hazard detection before incidents occur. (AISTech 2026)
- Contributed core architectural components of a feed-forward framework synthesizing geometrically accurate binaural audio from standard video for industrial safety simulation. (CVPR Workshop 2026)
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2025 - 2025 Remote
AI Research Analyst
Untapped Ventures
- Designed three investment-decision LLM agents (Pre-Seed, Seed, Studio) that ingest heterogeneous pitch materials and generate structured invest/pass recommendations against a formalized multi-stage evaluation rubric.
- Built an automated screening pipeline with multi-source retrieval and LLM-based scoring (1–100 scale); three-tier confidence routing triggered autonomous outreach above 67, analyst review between 40–67, and batched triage below 40.
- Iterated through prompt engineering cycles to improve structured output reliability and context retention, developing applied intuitions around LLM failure modes in multi-step reasoning pipelines.
Publications
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2026 Visual Geometry Grounded Novel-View Acoustic Synthesis
CVPR Workshop 2026
First unified framework for novel-view acoustic synthesis bypassing explicit 3D reconstruction via feed-forward visual geometry grounding. Contribution: designed the VGGT output representation and formulated the Q/K structure of the Geometry-Grounded Acoustic Decoder (GGAD) cross-attention mechanism.
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2026 Development of Trialing Image Detection for a Melt Shop Safety Tool
AISTech 2026
Multi-camera perception system for dynamic safety zone reconfiguration in active industrial environments. Contribution: developed the rule-based spatial reasoning engine fusing four camera perspectives to redefine safety boundaries from outermost detected blocker positions.
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2025 Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Accident Investigation: Improving Safety Reporting with LLMs
AISTech 2025
Conversational AI system for industrial safety incident management with context-aware dialogue and dynamic action sequencing. Contribution: designed and implemented the conversational AI backend — monolithic Django pipeline handling context retention, dialogue state, and action sequencing.
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2026 TandemBench: Evaluating Dual-Encoder Retrieval Under Joint Image-Text Corruption
Submitted to WACV 2027 Round 2
Lead researcher. Benchmark of 19 dual-encoder retrieval models under joint image-text corruption across MS-COCO and Flickr30k, with 83,754 evaluations and analysis of nine test-time adaptation methods.
Education
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2024 - 2026 Hammond, IN
Master of Science
Purdue University Northwest
Computer Science
- Thesis track under Prof. Yang Ni
- Research focus: Intelligent Agents, Multimodal Reasoning, Environment Understanding
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2020 - 2024 Gujarat, India
Bachelor of Technology
Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT)
Computer Science
- 9 publications across ML domains including security, medical imaging, and NLP
- ACM Student Body President
- Training and Placement Coordinator
Skills
Academic Service
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2024 - present Springer Nature
Peer Reviewer
Neural Computing and Applications
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2024 - present UBahrain
Peer Reviewer
International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS)