Aditya (Jack) Sarkar - ジャック 
Office: 8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Work Email: asarkar6 [at] umd [dot] edu
Personal Email: asnov2k [at] gmail [dot] com
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Ang Li. Further, I closely collaborate with Shlok Mishra, Profs. Nuno Vasconcelos and David Jacobs. I research computer vision models, specifically video-centric multimodal LLMs and diffusion models.
In my free time, I document my readings on Jacklog — a running log of what I’m learning. Feel free to check it out here.
Before my Ph.D., I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, where I was advised by Prof. Sreelakshmi Manjunath and received the President of India Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medal.
News
[01/2026] MA-PaPSP got accepted at ICLR '26. See you in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[09/2024] 
Excited to start my Ph.D. at University of Maryland advised by Prof. Ang Li.
[09/2023] Graduated from IIT Mandi with a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering.
Publications & Preprints
* denotes equal contribution
Quantifying symbol binding capability of Audio-Visual LLMs
Aditya Sarkar, Shwai He, David Jacobs, Ang Li.
Preprint arXiv Project Page
Keeping Them HONEST: A Framework for Detailed Understanding of How Video Complexity Affects Video-LLM Performance
Aditya Sarkar, Yi Li, Jiacheng Cheng, David Jacobs, Nuno Vasconcelos.
Preprint arXiv Project Page
Leveraging Data to Say No: Memory Augmented Plug-and-Play Selective Prediction
Aditya Sarkar, Yi Li, Jiacheng Cheng, Shlok Mishra, Nuno Vasconcelos.
ICLR 2026 arXiv Project Page
Education
University of Maryland College Park
Aug. 2024 -- Present
Ph.D. in Computer Vision, advised by Prof. Ang Li.
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
Sept. 2019 -- June 2023
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (President of India Gold Medal Awardee), advised by Prof. Sreelakshmi Manjunath
Academic Service
ICLR'26