Dwip Dalal

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Hi, I am Dwip Dalal, a first‑year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. My research interests lie in MLLMs, multi‑agents, generative AI, and multi‑modal representation learning.

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

	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
	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 Arxiv, 2024, Paper \| abstract
	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
	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
	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

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	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
	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 Arxiv, 2024, Paper \| abstract
	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
	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
	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

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

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

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

Enhancing Cameras with Conditional Diffusion Model

VPTDrone: Video Processing Toolkit for Smart Surveillance Drone