About me

Welcome all! I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Kharagpur. I am also an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US. In the IIT Kharagpur, I am building a “Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (SPAI)” group. Our SPAI group performs basic research in the intersection of Signal Processing with Deep Learning and Computer Vision.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I was advised by Prof. Narendra Ahuja. My postdoc research lies at the intersection of Signal Processing and Deep Learning, aimed for Agriculture applications (associated with The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability (AIFARMS) Institute).

Prior to that, I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, where I was advised by Prof. A. N. Rajagopalan in Image Processing and Computer Vision Lab. My Ph.D. research lies at the intersection of Image Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Deep Learning (for details, please find my dissertation). Prior to my Ph.D., I have completed Master’s (M-Tech) in Communication Engineering and Signal Processing, advised by Prof. Sheeba V. S., and Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering, both with honours.

I grew up in Kerala, India, a place adorned with lush hues of Nature. I have an interest in Philosophy of Science and curate some excerpts here. I am a nature- and art-lover, and I rarely scribble poems (here).

News:

• [ 2024.10 ]   Congrats Sharath for securing the IndiaAI Research fellowship (1 Lakh INR)!
• [ 2024.10 ]   Congrats Sayan for securing the IndiaAI Research fellowship (1 Lakh INR)!
• [ 2024.09 ]   IndoML 2024 Travel Grant Awarded to Gourav, Mahim, and Prakhar for their work on LLMs. Congrats all!
• [ 2024.07 ]   Congrats Sayan for securing the competitive on-site internship at AWL Inc., Japan!
• [ 2024.07 ]   Congrats Sharath for securing internship at Google!
• [ 2024.07 ]   Congrats Bibhabasu and Rahul for securing internship at Adobe!
• [ 2024.07 ]   Congrats Manish for securing internship at Amazon!
• [ 2024.07 ]   Prakhar joined the Technical Team for LLMs in Datathon, IndoML’2024.
• [ 2024.06 ]   Prof. Mahesh will be serving as a Datathon Chair for IndoML’2024.
• [ 2024.06 ]   Amara joined MakeMyTrip as a Senior Data Scientist. Best Wishes Amara!
• [ 2024.04 ]   Congrats Amara for receiving the prestigious UG Chanakya Fellowship award!
• [ 2022.08 ]   Presented two posters on AIFARMS technical conference on AI for agriculture.
• [ 2022.05 ]   Two journal papers got accepted (Signal processing Letters and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture).
• [ 2021.08 ]   Invited reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
• [ 2021.04 ]   One paper is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
• [ 2020.07 ]   Worked in Virtual Reality for IIT-M Convocation (Snapshot, Media, Appraisal).
• [ 2019.11 ]   Invited reviewer for the Int’l journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
• [ 2019.07 ]   Selected for ICCV-19 Doctoral Consortium, Seoul, S. Korea.
• [ 2019.06 ]   One paper is accepted as Oral in ICCV-19 (4.3% acceptance rate).
• [ 2018.12 ]   Invited speaker at ICVGIP-18, “Light Field Deblurring”, Hyderabad, India.
• [ 2018.04 ]   Two papers are accepted in CVPR-18 (29% acceptance rate).
• [ 2017.12 ]   Invited speaker at NCVPRIPG-17, “RS Cameras”, Himachal Pradesh, India.
• [ 2017.07 ]   Awarded Microsoft & ACM grants to attend ICCV-17, Venice, Italy.
• [ 2016-17 ]   Two papers are accepted in ECCV-16 and ICCV-17 (~28 % acceptance rate).
• [ 2019.07 ]   Awarded Google grant to attend ICCV-19, Seoul, S. Korea.