Achin (Ace) Kulshrestha
As a Staff Software Engineer and Manager at Google, I work in the Semantic Perception team led by Federico Tombari, focusing on AR technology, specifically privacy-aware ambient perception, On-Device Generative LLMs, and 3D computer vision. Before AR Perception, I worked on sensitive document classification and built the deterministic encryption stack for DLP API.
I also spent time at Yelp and Facebook, focusing on anti-abuse and security initiatives such as account takeover protection, phishing prevention, and bug triage using ML.
My interests are centered around Generative ML, computer vision and privacy.
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2025
- Served on the judging committee for GenAI Genesis’25, Canada’s Largest AI Hackathon.
- Our paper Omnia de EgoTempo: Benchmarking Temporal Understanding of Multi-Modal LLMs in Egocentric Videos accepted at CVPR’25.
- Our paper Mind the GAP: Geometry Aware Passthrough Mitigates Cybersickness accepted at CHI’25 (LBW).
- Delivered a keynote address on Building Trustworthy AI for the Future at Hack Canada 2025.
- Served on the Judging committee for University of Toronto Hackathon 2025.
- Our paper - BRAVE: Broadening the visual encoding of vision-language models published at ECCV’24 (Oral)
- Served as a judge at the 2024 Bolt UBC bootcamp competition, focusing on building secure financial fraud detection systems.
- Served on 2024 Program Committees for CVPR, NEURIPS, AiSEC, AAAI, FPS, PoPETs, MMAI & ICLR