Jyoti Kini
Applied Research Scientist
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
6666 Saint-Urbain Street, Suite 200,
Montreal, QC, H2S 3H1
Email: jyotikini03@gmail.com
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I am an Applied Research Scientist at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. I received my Ph.D. in 2025 from the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida (UCF), advised by Prof. Mubarak Shah. My research focuses on 2D/3D scene understanding, including detection, segmentation, and tracking across camera and LiDAR data. My recent work also explores autonomy in firefighting using drones, vision-language modeling for 3D visual grounding, equivariant representation learning for diffusion models, LLM evaluation, and self-improving agents. Prior to Mila, I worked as a Senior Research Engineer in Prediction/Planning at PlusAI. Earlier, during my internship at Waymo, I worked on multimodal self-supervised temporal representation learning in Bird’s-Eye View (BEV), contributing to key downstream tasks such as occupancy prediction, semantic segmentation, and object detection, with this work filed for patent review. I have served as a reviewer for NeurIPS, ICCV, WACV, and IROS, and I am a recipient of the UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the ORC Fellowship. I have also mentored students through the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
Applied Research Scientist
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Jan 2026 – Present
Manager: Gaétan Marceau Caron (Applied Machine Learning Research Team)
LLM Evaluation and RAG Systems for Healthcare and Banking Applications
Senior Research Engineer
PlusAI, Santa Clara, California, USA | May 2025 – Jan 2026
Manager: Amit Kumar (Prediction/Planning)
Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction and Planning-Oriented End-to-End Autonomy
Research Intern
PlusAI, Santa Clara, California, USA | Mar 2025 – May 2025
Host: Amit Kumar (Prediction/Planning)
BEV Feature Fusion with Agent and Lane Encodings for Map-Aware Trajectory Forecasting
Research Intern
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, California, USA | May 2024 – Aug 2024
Hosts: Daniel Cai, Safa Cicek (Perception Sensor Fusion Team)
Temporal Representation Learning via Bird’s-Eye View (BEV) Future Frame Prediction
Research Intern
SRI International, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (Remote) | May 2022 – Aug 2022
Host: Bogdan Matei
Weak Supervision-based Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation, 3D Point Cloud Compression
Cross-View Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Aerial Imagery
Arxiv 2025
Jyoti Kini, Rohit Gupta, Mubarak Shah
[Paper]
Intent3D: 3D Object Detection in RGB-D Scans Based on Human Intention
ICLR 2025
Weitai Kang, Mengxue Qu, Jyoti Kini, Yunchao Wei, Mubarak Shah, Yan Yan
[Paper]
ER-DDPMs: Towards Equivariant Representations in Diffusion Models
Arxiv 2024
Jyoti Kini, Navid Kardan, Mubarak Shah
[Paper]
CT-VOS: Cutout Prediction and Tagging for Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation
CVIU 2023
Jyoti Kini, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan, Mubarak Shah
[Paper]
- Teaching Assistant: COP3502 – Data Structures and Algorithms (Spring 2021)
- Teaching Assistant: COP3223 – Introduction to Programming with C (Fall 2020)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Selected as the recipient of UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2024)
- Secured first place in the ICIAP Competition on Multimodal Action Recognition on the MECCANO Dataset (2023)
- Received ICRA RAS Travel Grant from ICRA Travel Grant Committee (2023)
- Granted Graduate Presentation Fellowship by UCF College of Graduate Studies (2023)
- Received Conference Registration & Travel funding from UCF Student Government (2022)
- Won Stanford’s JackRabbot Dataset 3D Tracking Competition (2021)
- Awarded the ORC Fellowship during my first year as a Ph.D. student with UCF (2018)