Swapnanil Mukherjee

About Me

I am a final year undergraduate student at Ashoka University. My research interests lie in multimodal AI, problems at the intersection of vision and language, commonsense abilities in foundation models, and reasoning.

I am currently an intern at the Precog Lab at IIIT Hyderabad where I am exploring representational alignment between modalities and its implication on downstream tasks in collaboration with Microsoft Research India. I am also pursuing my undergraduate thesis on neurosymbolic methods for verifiable and grounded Visual Question Answering (VQA), under the supervision of Prof. Debayan Gupta (Ashoka University) and Prof. Somak Aditya (IIT Kharagpur). For more details, check out my CV, or look at my research.

Aside from work, there aren't many things that I do (which I am slowly trying to change). But sometimes, when I do find the motivation, I enjoy obsessing over frames. You can find some of them here. I am quite into Marvel (and other comic universes), have an alarming number of Spotify minutes, and I try to swim sometimes. Please reach out to me if you find any of these interesting, or just want to have a chat!

[NOTE] I am also actively looking for PhD positions starting Fall 2026 in the aforementioned research areas. If there are any openings and I might be a good fit for your group, do let me know!