Puneet Mathur

Research Scientist

San Jose

Puneet is a Research Scientist at Adobe Research, where he focuses on advancing the frontiers of document understanding, NLP, and multimodal AI. His research spans LLMs, agents, reasoning, and their applications in enhancing document intelligence.

He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2023, where he was advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha. Before his doctoral studies, he earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from UMD in 2021 and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in 2018.

At Adobe Research, Puneet continues to push the boundaries of how machines understand and process complex, multi-format documents, contributing to next-generation technologies that enhance human creativity and productivity.

Publications

Follow the Flow: Fine-grained Flowchart Attribution with Neurosymbolic Agents

Suri, Manan., Mathur, Puneet., Lipka, Nedim., Dernoncourt, Franck., Rossi, Ryan., Gupta, Vivek., Manocha, Dinesh. (Nov. 9, 2025)

EMNLP 2025

A Survey on Long-Video Storytelling Generation: Architectures, Consistency, and Cinematic Quality

Elmoghany, Mohamed., Rossi, Ryan., Yoon, David., Mukherjee, Subhojyoti., Bakr, Eslam., Mathur, Puneet., Wu, Gang., Lai, Viet., Lipka, Nedim., Zhang, Ruiyi., Manjunatha, Varun., Nguyen, Chien., Dangi, Daksh., Salinas, Abel., Taesiri, Mohammad., Chen, Hongjie., Huang, Xiaolei., Barrow, Joe., Ahmed, Nesreen., Eldardiry, Hoda., Park, Namyong., Wang, Yu., Cho, Jaemin., Nguyen, Anh., Tu, Zhengzhong., Nguyen, Thien., Manocha, Dinesh., Elhoseiny, Mohamed., Dernoncourt, Franck. (Oct. 20, 2025)

ICCV 2025 LongVid Foundations Workshop

DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions

Nguyen, Dang., Lai, Viet., Yoon, David., Rossi, Ryan., Zhao, Handong., Zhang, Ruiyi., Mathur, Puneet., Lipka, Nedim., Wang, Yu., Bui, Trung., Dernoncourt, Franck., Zhou, Tianyi. (Oct. 9, 2025)

COLM 2025

Survey on User Interface Design and Interactions for Generative AI Applications

Luera, Reuben., Rossi, Ryan., Siu, Alexa., Dernoncourt, Franck., Yu, Tong., Kim, Sungchul., Zhang, Ruiyi., Chen, Xiang., Salehy, Hanieh., Lipka, Nedim., Basu, Samyadeep., Mathur, Puneet., Zhao, Jian. (Sep. 27, 2025)

Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction

A Survey on Small Language Models

Van Nguyen, Chien., Shen, Xuan., Aponte, Ryan., Xia, Yu., Basu, Samyadeep., Hu, Zhengmian., Chen, Jian., Parmar, Mihir., Kunapuli, Sasidhar., Barrow, Joe., Wu, Junda., Singh, Ashish., Wang, Yu., Gu, Jiuxiang., Ahmed, Nesreen., Lipka, Nedim., Zhang, Ruiyi., Chen, Xiang., Yu, Tong., Kim, Sungchul., Deilamsalehy, Hanieh., Park, Namyong., Rimer, Michael., Zhang, Zhehao., Yang, Huanrui., Mathur, Puneet., Wu, Gang., Dernoncourt, Franck., Rossi, Ryan., Nguyen, Thien. (Sep. 10, 2025)

RANLP 2025

FigCaps-HF: A Figure-to-Caption Generative Framework and Benchmark with Human Feedback

Singh, Ashish., Singh, Ashutosh., Agarwal, Prateek., Huang, Zixuan., Singh, Arpita., Yu, Tong., Kim, Sungchul., Bursztyn, Victor., Ahmed, Nesreen., Mathur, Puneet., Learned-Miller, Erik., Dernoncourt, Franck., Rossi, Ryan. (Sep. 10, 2025)

RANLP 2025

Multi-LLM Text Summarization

Fang, Jiangnan., Liu, Cheng-Tse., Kim, Jieun., Bhedaru, Yash., Liu, Ethan., Singh, Nikhil., Lipka, Nedim., Mathur, Puneet., Ahmed, Nesreen., Dernoncourt, Franck., Rossi, Ryan., Deilamsalehy, Hanieh. (Sep. 10, 2025)

RANLP 2025

DocVoyager: Anticipating User’s Information Needs and Guiding Document Reading through Question Answering

Lee, Yoonjoo., Lipka, Nedim., Wang, Jack., Mathur, Puneet., Rossi, Ryan., Sun, Tong., Siu, Alexa. (Apr. 26, 2025)

CHI 2025

MoDS: Moderating a Mixture of Document Speakers to Summarize Debatable Queries in Document Collections

Balepur, Nishant., Siu, Alexa., Lipka, Nedim., Dernoncourt, Franck., Sun, Tong., Boyd-Graber, Jordan., Mathur, Puneet. (Apr. 2, 2025)

NAACL 2025

Matsa: Multi-agent table structure attribution

Mathur, Puneet., Siu, Alexa., Lipka, Nedim., Sun, Tong. (Nov. 1, 2024)

EMNLP 2024

DocPilot: Copilot for automating PDF edit workflows in documents

Mathur, Puneet., Siu, Alexa., Manjunatha, Varun., Sun, Tong. (Aug. 1, 2024)

ACL 2024