Publications and Awards

Publications

Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Model Narrative Interpretation through the Lens of Appraisal Theory

J. Teotia, X. Wang, X. Zhang, R. Mao, E. Cambria. Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Model Narrative Interpretation through the Lens of Appraisal Theory. LREC 2026, pp. 11417–11426.

Appraisal Theory-Informed Emotion Prediction

X. Wang, J. Teotia, R. Mao, W. K. R. Singh, S. B. Tiun, E. Cambria. Appraisal Theory-Informed Emotion Prediction. LREC 2026, pp. 11345–11358.

OGP-Net: Optical Guidance Meets Pixel-Level Contrastive Distillation for Robust Multi-Modal and Missing Modality Segmentation

A. Sikdar, J. Teotia, S. Sundaram. OGP-Net: Optical Guidance Meets Pixel-Level Contrastive Distillation for Robust Multi-Modal and Missing Modality Segmentation. AAAI 2025, pp. 6922–6930.

Evaluating Vision Language Models in Detecting Learning Engagement

J. Teotia, X. Zhang, R. Mao, E. Cambria. Evaluating Vision Language Models in Detecting Learning Engagement. IEEE ICDM Workshops (ICDMW) 2024, pp. 496–502.

SKD-Net: Spectral-based Knowledge Distillation in Low-Light Thermal Imagery for Robotic Perception

A. Sikdar, J. Teotia, S. Sundaram. SKD-Net: Spectral-based Knowledge Distillation in Low-Light Thermal Imagery for Robotic Perception. ICRA 2024.

Awards

• 1st in Acceleration and 3rd Overall, Formula Green 2020 (Formula Student competition)
• MCM Scholarship, IIT Roorkee (2 years)
• All India Rank 1986 in JEE Advanced 2016 among 150,000 candidates