Piyush Arora

Incoming PhD Student, Imperial College London

I am an incoming PhD student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr. Jiankang Deng, starting in April 2027. I will work on multimodal large language models (MLLMs). I completed my MSc in Computing (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) at Imperial in September 2026, with the thesis Improving Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Large Language Models.

My research spans multimodal learning, including audio-visual speech recognition, neural audio codecs and vision-language models, as well as LLM post-training. My work has appeared at INTERSPEECH, EMNLP and WACV.

Previously, I was a Machine Learning Intern at Neuphonic and a Research Engineer at MetaFusion. I received my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Jodhpur.

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