Dwip Dalal

Hi, I am second year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. My research interests lie in VLAs, MLLMs, multi‑agents, generative AI, and multi‑modal representation learning. I'm fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Svetlana Lazebnik, Prof. Heng Ji and Prof. Unnat Jain.

Previously, I completed my B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, where I was awarded the Institute Gold medal for graduating at the top of my discipline.

I'm in Seattle for my summer internship at Microsoft Research — hit me up if you want to chat about cool topics!

Internships

Microsoft Research
Summer 2025

UBC
Summer 2023

USC (AIISC)
2022‑2024

ISRO
Spring 2023

TCS Research
Winter & Spring 2023

EFICENS
Summer 2022

News

May 2025: Summer internship at Microsoft Research (Redmond), focusing on LLM agents and reasoning.
Aug 2024: Awarded the Dilip and Sandhya Sarwate Graduate Fellowship at UIUC for the 2024‑2025 academic year.
Jun 2024: Awarded the Institute Gold Medal at IIT Gandhinagar for highest CGPA.
Feb 2024: Nominated by IIT Gandhinagar for the Pre‑Doctoral Research Assistant Program at Microsoft Research India.
2023: Perfect 10/10 GPA for two consecutive semesters (6th & 7th).
Sep 2023: 1st of 200 in SmartSense ML hackathon; job offer as ML Engineer II.

Publications

	Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Aware Image Warping Dwip Dalal, G. Vashishtha, U. Mishra, J. Kim, M. Kanda, H. Ha, Svetlana Lazebnik, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain under review at ICLR 2026 Paper \| Project Page
	Can MLLMs Find Their Way in a City? Exploring Emergent Navigation from Web-Scale Knowledge Dwip Dalal, Utkarsh Mishra, Narendra Ahuja, Nebojsa Jojic under review at EACL 2026
	Divide and Reason: Joint Image and Language Decomposition for Compositional Reasoning Dwip Dalal, Madhav Kanda, Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain under review at EACL 2026
	A Dataset-Centric Survey of LLM-Agents for Data Science Dwip Dalal, Chuxuan Hu, Xiaona Zhou under review at TMLR Paper
	FACTIFY-5WQA: 5W Aspect-based Fact Verification through Question Answering Anku Rani, SM Tonmoy, Dwip Dalal, Shreya Gautam, Megha C., Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das ACL 2023 Paper \| Project Page
	Learning Robust Deep Visual Representations from EEG Brain Recordings Prajwal Singh, Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Shanmuganathan Raman, Krishna Prasad Miyapuram WACV 2024 Paper \| Project Page \| WACV Daily \| Best of WACV 2024
	FACTIFY3M: A Benchmark for Multimodal Fact Verification with Explainability through 5W Question-Answering M Chakraborty, K Pahwa, A Rani, S Chatterjee, Dwip Dalal, H Dave, ... A Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das EMNLP 2023 Paper \| Project Page
	Single Image LDR to HDR Conversion Using Conditional Diffusion Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'23) (Oral) Paper \| Project Page
	Surrogate Faithfulness: A Metric for Concept-Based Explanations Shubham Kumar, Dwip Dalal, Narendra Ahuja *under review, 2025* Abstract \| Arxiv
	Flow Symmetrization for Parameterized Constrained Diffeomorphisms *Dwip Dalal,** Aalok Gangopadhyay, Progyan Das, Shanmuganathan Raman *Arxiv, 2024* Paper \| Abstract \| Project Page

Workshop Papers

	ODESolvers are also Wayfinders: Neural ODEs for Multi-Agent Pathplanning *Dwip Dalal,** Progyan Das, Anirban Dasgupta NeurIPS 2023 Workshop - Deep Learning and Differential Equations III* Paper \| Abstract
	MMT: A Multilingual and Multi-Topic Indian Social Media Dataset Dwip Dalal, Vivek Srivastava, Mayank Singh EACL 2023 workshop - Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Paper \| Abstract \| Project Page
	Learning to Stabilize: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and Traditional Methods for Swirling Pendulum Control Dwip Dalal, Shubhankar Riswadkar, Harish J Palanthandalam-Madapusi *IEEE Indian Control Conference 2023* Paper \| Abstract
	SEPSIS: I can catch your lies - A new paradigm for Deception Detection Anku Rani, Dwip Dalal, Shreya Gautam, Pankaj Gupta, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das ACL SRW 2025, Abstract \| Paper \| Project Page
	Enhancing Cameras with Conditional Diffusion Model Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman *CVPR 2023 workshop - Computational Cameras and Display CCD* Poster
	VPTDrone: Video Processing Toolkit for Smart Surveillance Drone Dwip Dalal, Anirban Dasgupta *7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 2024* Paper

Template Credits: Unnat and Shubhang

	Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Aware Image Warping Dwip Dalal, G. Vashishtha, U. Mishra, J. Kim, M. Kanda, H. Ha, Svetlana Lazebnik, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain under review at ICLR 2026 Paper \| Project Page
	Can MLLMs Find Their Way in a City? Exploring Emergent Navigation from Web-Scale Knowledge Dwip Dalal, Utkarsh Mishra, Narendra Ahuja, Nebojsa Jojic under review at EACL 2026
	Divide and Reason: Joint Image and Language Decomposition for Compositional Reasoning Dwip Dalal, Madhav Kanda, Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain under review at EACL 2026
	A Dataset-Centric Survey of LLM-Agents for Data Science Dwip Dalal, Chuxuan Hu, Xiaona Zhou under review at TMLR Paper
	FACTIFY-5WQA: 5W Aspect-based Fact Verification through Question Answering Anku Rani, SM Tonmoy, Dwip Dalal, Shreya Gautam, Megha C., Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das ACL 2023 Paper \| Project Page
	Learning Robust Deep Visual Representations from EEG Brain Recordings Prajwal Singh, Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Shanmuganathan Raman, Krishna Prasad Miyapuram WACV 2024 Paper \| Project Page \| WACV Daily \| Best of WACV 2024
	FACTIFY3M: A Benchmark for Multimodal Fact Verification with Explainability through 5W Question-Answering M Chakraborty, K Pahwa, A Rani, S Chatterjee, Dwip Dalal, H Dave, ... A Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das EMNLP 2023 Paper \| Project Page
	Single Image LDR to HDR Conversion Using Conditional Diffusion Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'23) (Oral) Paper \| Project Page
	Surrogate Faithfulness: A Metric for Concept-Based Explanations Shubham Kumar, Dwip Dalal, Narendra Ahuja *under review, 2025* Abstract \| Arxiv
	Flow Symmetrization for Parameterized Constrained Diffeomorphisms *Dwip Dalal,** Aalok Gangopadhyay, Progyan Das, Shanmuganathan Raman *Arxiv, 2024* Paper \| Abstract \| Project Page

	ODESolvers are also Wayfinders: Neural ODEs for Multi-Agent Pathplanning *Dwip Dalal,** Progyan Das, Anirban Dasgupta NeurIPS 2023 Workshop - Deep Learning and Differential Equations III* Paper \| Abstract
	MMT: A Multilingual and Multi-Topic Indian Social Media Dataset Dwip Dalal, Vivek Srivastava, Mayank Singh EACL 2023 workshop - Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Paper \| Abstract \| Project Page
	Learning to Stabilize: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and Traditional Methods for Swirling Pendulum Control Dwip Dalal, Shubhankar Riswadkar, Harish J Palanthandalam-Madapusi *IEEE Indian Control Conference 2023* Paper \| Abstract
	SEPSIS: I can catch your lies - A new paradigm for Deception Detection Anku Rani, Dwip Dalal, Shreya Gautam, Pankaj Gupta, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das ACL SRW 2025, Abstract \| Paper \| Project Page
	Enhancing Cameras with Conditional Diffusion Model Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman *CVPR 2023 workshop - Computational Cameras and Display CCD* Poster
	VPTDrone: Video Processing Toolkit for Smart Surveillance Drone Dwip Dalal, Anirban Dasgupta *7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 2024* Paper

Dwip Dalal

Internships

News

Publications

Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Aware Image Warping

Can MLLMs Find Their Way in a City? Exploring Emergent Navigation from Web-Scale Knowledge

Divide and Reason: Joint Image and Language Decomposition for Compositional Reasoning

A Dataset-Centric Survey of LLM-Agents for Data Science

FACTIFY-5WQA: 5W Aspect-based Fact Verification through Question Answering

Learning Robust Deep Visual Representations from EEG Brain Recordings

FACTIFY3M: A Benchmark for Multimodal Fact Verification with Explainability through 5W Question-Answering

Single Image LDR to HDR Conversion Using Conditional Diffusion

Surrogate Faithfulness: A Metric for Concept-Based Explanations

Flow Symmetrization for Parameterized Constrained Diffeomorphisms

Workshop Papers

ODESolvers are also Wayfinders: Neural ODEs for Multi-Agent Pathplanning

MMT: A Multilingual and Multi-Topic Indian Social Media Dataset

Learning to Stabilize: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and Traditional Methods for Swirling Pendulum Control

SEPSIS: I can catch your lies - A new paradigm for Deception Detection

Enhancing Cameras with Conditional Diffusion Model

VPTDrone: Video Processing Toolkit for Smart Surveillance Drone