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
- Gave a talk on “Silent Layer: Privacy and Security core of AI” at EigenAI Conference 2025.
- Our work “Sensible Agent: A Framework for Unobtrusive Interaction with Proactive AR Agents” (UIST 2025) featured on Google Research Blog.
- Our paper “EgoTrigger: Toward Audio-Driven Image Capture for Human Memory Enhancement in All-Day Energy-Efficient Smart Glasses” accepted at ISMAR 2025.
- Our paper “Gatekeeper: Improving Model Cascades Through Confidence Tuning” accepted at NeurIPS 2025 and won Best Poster Award at TinyTitan’s workshop (ICML 2025).
- Served on the judging committee for GenAI Genesis’25, Canada’s Largest AI Hackathon.
- 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