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We are looking for new PostDocs, PhD students, Master students, Project Assistants and Interns to join the team (see openings) !
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Convenor
Anirban Chakraborty
Associate Professor
CDS Dept, IISc Bangalore
E-Mail: firstname[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in
Current Members
PostDocs
PhD/Master’s Students
M. Yashwanth
Ph. D. student (2021-Present)
Research Area: Federated learning under data heterogeneity
Shyam Marjit
M. Tech. (research) (2025-Present)
Research Area: Generative models, Large Vision-Language Models
Rishi Gupta
M. Tech. (research) (2024-Present)
Research Area: Large Vision-Language Models, interpretability
Sai Dharma Srinidhi Sheryala
M. Tech. (research) (2023-Present)
Research Area: Neural radiance fields, Medical image reconstruction
Arka Haldi
M. Tech. (research) (2023-Present)
Research Area: Conditional generative modeling, text-guided image editting
Anay Loya
M. Tech. (CDS) (2025-Present)
Research Area: Sketch based Animation Creation
Research Project Assistants
Interns
Alumni
PhD/Master’s Students
- Aditay Tripathi, Ph. D. (2018-24), Current: Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Thesis: Integrating Coarse Semantic Information with Deep Image Representations for Object Localization, Model Generalization and Efficient Training - Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ph. D. (2017-23), Current: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee)
Thesis: Data-efficient Deep Learning Algorithms for Computer Vision Applications - Batakala Ashok, M. Tech. (CDS) (2022-24), Current: Data Scientist at Netradyne
Dissertation: Reshaping humans in video - Vikramaditya Mishra, M. Tech. (CDS) (2022-24), Current: ML Engineer at 10xR
Dissertation: FL for battery health monitoring in electric vehicles - Vikash Kumar, M. Tech. (research) (2019-22), Current: Amazon
Thesis: Mitigating Domain Shift via Self-training for Unsupervised Single and Multi-target Domain Adaptation - Chaitra Sheshgiri Jambigi, M. Tech. (research) (2019-22), Current: Flipkart Pvt. Ltd.
Thesis: Towards Robust and Scalable Video Surveillance: Cross-modal and Domain Generalizable Person Re-identification - Siddharth Seth, M. Tech. (research) (2018-21), Current: University of California, Merced (Ph.D. student)
Thesis: Learning to Perceive Humans From Appearance and Pose - Shreya Roy, M. Tech. (research) (2017-21), Current: Publicis Sapient
Thesis: Deep Learning in Computer Vision: Studies in Neuro-image Segmentation and Satellite Image Super-resolution - Surbhi Aggarwal, M. Tech. (research) (2017-20), Current: Microsoft
Thesis: Learning Across Domains: Applications to Text-Based Person Search and Multi-Source Domain Adaptation - Sai Shankar Patro, M. Tech. (CDS) (2021-23), Current: Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Dissertation: Incremental Learning in Semantic Segmentation - Supriya Mandal, M. Tech. (CDS) (2021-23), Current: Chargebee
Dissertation: Unsupervised Deep Learning Based Video Anomaly Detection & Localization - Shaurya Tiwari, M. Tech. (CDS) (2020-22), Current: Ernst & Young
Dissertation: Composing Effective Arbitrary Transfer Sets for Data Free Knowledge Distillation - Aditya Kumar Pal, M. Tech. (CDS) (2018-21), Current: Walmart Global Tech India
Dissertation: Anomaly Detection and Localization Using Image Inpainting - Sunny Anand, M. Tech. (CDS) (2019-21), Current: ARKRAY, Inc.
Dissertation: Efficient Utilization of Communication Channel in Federated Learning - Sourav Mishra, M. Tech. (CDS) (2018-20), Current: Toppr
Dissertation: Feature Augmentation for Anomaly Detection - Shivansh Srivastava, M. Tech. (CDS) (2017-19), Current: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Dissertation: Early and Hybrid Fusion for Cultural Event Recognition in Images - Utkarsh Shreemali, M. Tech. (CDS) (2017-19), Current: Qualcomm
Dissertation: Robust Gait based Human Identification on Incomplete and Multi-view Sequences - Bibrat Ranjan Pradhan, M. Tech. (CDS) (2017-19), Current: Mercedes-Benz R&D
Dissertation: Activity Recognition in Neuromorphic Videos
Project Assistants
- Mukilan K, Project Assistant (2025-2025), Current: Fast Code AI
- Shubham Randive, Project Assistant (2022-2023), Current: Streamingo.ai
- Rohit Lal, Project Assistant (2021-2022), Current: Computer Scientist, NASA MSFC IMPACT
- Ruchit Rawal, Project Assistant (2021-2022), Current: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrücken
- Monish Keswani, Project Assistant (2020-21), Current: IIT Hyderabad
- Saksham Jain, Project Assistant (2020-21), Current: University of Washington, Seattle
- Akash Sonth, Project Assistant (2020-21), Current: Aspen Technology
- Sharan Seshadri, Project Assistant (2019), Current: SDE, Juniper Networks
- Rajath R. Dani, Project Assistant (2019-21), Current: Amazon Web Services
- Shashank Shekhar, Project Assistant (2018-19), Current: Meta AI Research
Interns
- Jayavarapu Surya Abhinai, Intern (2024), Current: Data Engineer, Siemens Healthineers
- Sharannya Ghosh, Intern (2024), Current: Data & AI, Accenture
- Arya Singh, Intern (2023), Current: BITS Pilani
- Arhat Amitabh, Intern (2023), Current: IIT Kharagpur
- Soumyajyoti Dey, Intern (2023), Current: Jadavpur University
- Pooja Kumari, Intern (2023), Current: IIT Madras
- Himanshu Patil, Intern (2021-2022), Current: Boston University
- Umar Masud, Intern (2022), Current: University of Toronto
- Inder Khatri, Intern (2021-2023), Current: New York University
- Sarthak Srivastava, Intern (2020-2021), Current: Amazon
- Aditi Shanmugam, Intern (2021), Current: Inferigence Quotient
- Amandeep Kumar, Intern (2021), Current: MBZUAI
- Het Shah, Intern (2021), Current: RA, Google Research India
- Vignesh Nagarajan, Intern (2021), Current: University of California, Los Angeles
- Anirudh Kannan, Intern (2020-2021), Current: Carnegie Mellon University
- Nirvan Anjirbag, Intern (2020), Current: Microsoft
- Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Intern (2019-2020), Current: NVIDIA