Arjun Chandra

CS PhD Student, Stanford University

Hello! I am a PhD student in the computer science department at Stanford. I am interested in the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science, and neuroscience. I am grateful to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I was an undergrad at Boston University, where I studied physics and computer science. I was very fortunate to be advised by Boqing Gong, Venkatesh Saligrama, and Irving Bigio during this time. I also spent a summer working on conversational recommendation systems at Adobe. I am best reached by email.

Research Experience Life

Symmetry Reveals Layerwise Dynamics: How Transformers Perform In-Context Classification

P. Lutz, T. Haris, A. Chandra, A. Gangrade, V. Saligrama

ICML 2026 Spotlight

arXiv code

BabyVLM-V2: Toward Developmentally Grounded Pretraining and Benchmarking of Vision Foundation Models

S. Wang, W. Wang, Z. Wang, …, A. Chandra, …, B. Gong

CVPR 2026

arXiv website

Hearing Between the Lines: Unlocking the Reasoning Power of LLMs for Speech Evaluation

A. Chandra*, K. Miller*, V. Ravichandran, C. Papayiannis, V. Saligrama *equal contribution

EACL 2026 Findings

arXiv code

BabyVLM: Data-Efficient Pretraining of VLMs Inspired by Infant Learning

S. Wang, A. Chandra, A. Liu, V. Saligrama, B. Gong

ICCV 2025

arXiv website

Rewind and Render: Towards Factually Accurate Text-to-Video Generation with Distilled Knowledge Retrieval

D. Lee*, A. Chandra*, Y. Zhou, Y. Li, S. Conia *equal contribution

AAAI 2025

doi code

Accelerating myelin defect detection in neurodegenerative disorders: a human-in-the-loop deep learning approach with birefringence microscopy

A. Novoseltseva, A. Chandra, A. J. Gray, S. Li, M. Bradsby, I. J. Bigio

Neurophotonics, 2025

doi code

Adobe · San Jose, CA

May 2024 – Aug 2024

AI/ML Intern — Machine Learning Engineer

Implemented and deployed a scalable LLM-based recommendation engine on roadmap for future release in Adobe Experience Platform AI Assistant

I Have a Tear in My Mind — Bryant Sid

“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm—this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the ‘why’ arises, and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus