Aashish is a graduate student at the Department of Computer Science in University of Colorado Boulder. He conducts research on Transformer Explainability as part of the Image and Video Computing research group under Dr. Danna Gurari to identify when and why models reason based on incorrect visual evidence for Visual Question Answering. Aashish is working as a Graduate Research Assistant where he uses satellite data and advanced ML techniques to predict fuel status in southern California at high resolution. This will help inform fire models and optimize fire risk reduction efforts carried out by our industry partners.