Ashutosh Chaubey

About Me

I am a CS PhD student at the Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, where I am advised by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani at the Intelligent Human Perception Lab. I am a Bronze Medallist from the 2021 batch of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

During my PhD, I am working on post-training techniques such as preference optimization for multimodal (audio/video/omni) LLMs to improve their social and emotion understanding. I also collaborate on projects related to video generation for social behaviors.

Prior to this, I was a Founding Research Engineer at Anoki AI where I worked on multimodal content understanding and retrieval. I have also worked at LG Ad Solutions on speaker recognition, automatic content recognition using audio and voice cloning. Over the past I have interned at Adobe Research, with Sumit Shekhar, at Vision and AI Lab, IISc. Bengaluru with Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu, and at IIT Roorkee with Prof. R. Balasubramanian

I am looking for Research/Applied Scientist internship positions for Fall 2026 and Spring/Summer 2027 on multimodal LLMs (audio/visual/omni) and video generation. Please reach out if you have open positions.

Masters/Undergrad Students

If you are a student and want to have a discussion with me regarding my papers or how to apply for a PhD program in the US, please email me at achaubey at usc dot edu

For students who wish to join our lab, please check our lab's open positions.