curriculum-vitae

Basics

Name Mahesh Bhosale
Position Computer Science PhD Candidate, University at Buffalo
Email mbhosale@buffalo.edu
Url https://bhosalems.github.io
Summary PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo advised by Dr. David Doermann. Research interests: image/video synthesis via diffusion models, and VQA and fairness issues of Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs).

Work

  • 2026.06 - 2026.08

    Baltimore, MD, USA

    Visiting Research Scholar
    Johns Hopkins University
    Research topics: multi-video understanding.
  • 2022.05 - Present

    Buffalo, NY, USA

    Research Assistant & Lab Manager
    Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University at Buffalo
    Research topics: multi-modal generative AI. Advised by Dr. David Doermann (A2IL Lab).
  • 2017.08 - 2021.08

    Pune, MH, India

    Software Engineer
    Veritas Technologies LLC
    Advised by Anindya Banerjee. Developed a novel scheduling algorithm on top of LSTM-based storage and compute resource prediction (IDLEBOT), reducing execution time of resource-intensive tasks by 56%. Benchmarked deep-learning-based sequence modeling solutions and built a ransomware-detection tool modeling the file change log in the Veritas Filesystem (VxFS). Bestowed Certificate of Merit, Veritas Illuminate 2020; led the effort to start an ML-for-Systems group in the org.
  • 2017.01 - 2017.06

    Pune, MH, India

    Software Engineer Intern
    Veritas Technologies LLC
    Reduced execution time of variants of the 'ls' command by 20% using a directory inode read-ahead algorithm.

Education

  • 2023.09 - 2027.05

    Buffalo, NY, USA

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Computer Science
  • 2021.09 - 2023.05

    Buffalo, NY, USA

    Master of Science (by Research)
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Computer Science
  • 2013.06 - 2017.05

    Sangli, MH, India

    Bachelor of Technology
    Walchand College of Engineering, Shivaji University
    Information Technology

Publications

Projects

  • 2025.01 - Present
    Id-Diff
    Exploring relationships between the intrinsic dimension of data and the generative performance of latent diffusion models. In collaboration with Carez AI and the University of Montreal.
  • 2025.01 - Present
    AI Agents for Pathology
    Exploring agentic AI for computational pathology that predicts patient survival while remaining clinically interpretable. In collaboration with NYU Langone Health.
  • 2025.01 - Present
    Few-Step Distillation of Flow Models
    Tackling the instability of GAN training when distilling flow-based generative models into few-step samplers. In collaboration with Meta.
  • 2025.01 - Present
    Multi-Video Understanding
    Improving the efficiency and grounding of article generation from multiple videos given a query. In collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.

Awards

  • 2023.02.01
    Research Mentorship Program Scholar
    Google
    Accepted to a three-month program that matches students with Google mentors and peers to support their pursuit of computer science research pathways.
  • 2020.03.01
    Certificate of Merit - Veritas Illuminate
    Veritas Technologies LLC
    Presented a paper titled 'IDLEBOT - Predictive execution of resource-intensive tasks' at Veritas's annual technical conference.
  • 2016.04.01
    Silver Medal, World Code Sprint
    HackerRank
    Awarded a silver medal in the World Code Sprint competitive programming contest.
  • 2015.12.01
    Honorable Mention, ACM-ICPC Amritapuri Regional
    Association for Computing Machinery and Baylor University
    Represented Walchand College of Engineering for the first time at the International Collegiate Programming Contest regionals at Amrita University, Coimbatore.
  • 2015.01.01
    Runner Up, Best Project Competition
    Department of Information Technology, WCE, Sangli
    Ranked 2nd best project in the department for computing top-10 Twitter hashtags with real-time processing and sentiment analysis using Apache Spark, Beautiful Soup, and the Twitter4j API, visualized with D3.js.
  • 2014.11.01
    Runner Up, MindSpark Coding Competition
    College of Engineering, Pune
    An algorithmic coding competition with over 500 students in teams of two from colleges across India, spanning MCQ, short-coding, and long-coding rounds.
  • 2014.01.01
    DST Inspire Science Camp (Top 1%)
    Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune
    Selected (top 1%) for a week-long science camp hosted by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and IIIT Pune.