Group Members

Faculty

Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE; Head, Dept. of AI;
email: <(first-name)(middle-initial)(last-name-initial)-at-iith.ac.in>

Phd Students

Anirban Sarkar

2016 - Present
Explainable/Robust AI, Causality

Sakshi Varshney

Visvesvaraya Fellow, 2016 - Present (Co-advisor, Advisor: Prof Srijith P K, IIT-H)
Implicit Generative Models, Generative Adversarial Networks

K J Joseph

TCS PhD Fellow, 2017 - Present
Continual Learning

Piyushi Manupriya

2018 - Present (Co-advisor, Advisor: Prof Saketha Nath J, IIT-H)
Explainable Machine Learning, Optimization, Probabilistic Modelling

Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy

PMRF Fellow, 2019 - Present
Deep learning, Causality, Neuro Symbolic AI

Bhat Dittakavi

2019 - Present
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Human Pose, Visual Dialog Systems

Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla

PMRF Fellow, 2020 - Present

Sairam Rebbapragada

2020 - Present

Rohit Dubey

2020 - Present

Kancheti Sai Srinivas

PMRF Fellow, 2021 - Present

Masters Students

Chaitanya Devaguptapu

2019 - Present
Learning with Limited Data, Model Compression, Neural Architecture Search

Kunal Kadian

2020 - Present
Deep Learning, Image Denoising

Nishit Shah

2020 - Present

Pranoy Panda

2020 - Present

Shivangana Rawat

2020 - Present

Vaasudev Narayanan

2020 - Present
Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Vimal K B

2020 - Present

Research Assistants/Interns

Divyagna Bavikadi

2021 - Present
Compute Vision, Human Pose, Signal Processing using AI, Medical Applications

Monish Keswani

2021 - Present

Rishabh Lalla

2021 - Present

Benin Godfrey L

2020 - Present
Computer Vision, Causality, Evolutionary Algorithms

Gaurav Bhatt

2019 - Present

Rahul Vigneswaran K

2019 - Present

Undergrad Students

Soumi Chakraborty


Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Human Pose

Surgan Jandial



Puneet Mangla


Uncertainty and Robustness, Interpretability, Fewshot/Meta Learning, Limited and Large scale Image generation

Yash Khasbhage


Generalization and Memorization, Loss Landscapes

Vedant Singh



Raj Patil



Karan Bhukar



Shreyas Havaldar



Nishant Reddy



Tarun Ram Menta



PhD Students

Masters Students

  • Sai Vikas Desai, 2017 - 20 (Next: Qualcomm), Excellence in Research Award in CSE, 2020
  • Sai Eswar Garapati, 2019 - 20 (Next: Broadcom)
  • Smruti Charkha, 2019-20
  • Uttaran Sinha, 2018 - 20 (Next: RA IIT-H -> Applied Scientist, Amazon)
  • Nehal Mamgain, 2018 - 19 (Next: Toyota Research Institute, Tokyo), Silver Medal for Academic Excellence in MTech in CSE
  • Smrutiranjan Sahu, 2018 - 19
  • Supriya Pandre, (Next: Adobe -> Max Planck -> PhD, Simon Fraser University)
  • Krishnakant Singh, 2017 - 18 (Next: Rakuten Research, Japan)
  • Mehak, 2017 - 18 (Next: Microsoft)
  • Mausam Jain, 2016-17 (Next: Rakuten, Japan)
  • Mittal Desai, 2015-16 (Next: Founder, Evangelysis)
  • Bharat Bhusan Sau, 2015 - 16 (Next: Mobiliya R&D)
  • Anjali Singh, 2014 - 15 (Next: Strand Life Sciences)
  • Parag Jain, 2014-15 (Next: Amazon -> IBM Research -> PhD, Univ of Edinburgh)

External

  • Sirnam Swetha, 2016 - 17 (Co-advisor, Advisor: Prof. C V Jawahar), IIIT-H (Next: Goldman Sachs)

Project Assistants

  • Akshay L Chandra, 2018 - 21 (Next: Masters, University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Uttaran Sinha, 2019 - 21 (Next: Applied Scientist, Amazon)
  • Neha Tarigopula, 2020 - 2021 (Next: PhD, EPFL)
  • Sai Srinivas, 2019 - 2020 (Next: PhD, IIT Hyderabad)
  • Shivam Chandhok, 2019 - 2020 (Next: RA, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi)
  • Vaasudev Narayanan, 2020 (Next: MTech, IIT Hyderabad)
  • Radhika Dua, 2019 - 2020 (Next: Masters, KAIST, South Korea)
  • Sandeep Inuganti, 2019 - 20 (Next: Masters, University of Tuebingen, Germany)
  • Rahul Nittala, 2019 - 20 (Next: Masters, Saarland Univ, Germany)
  • Chaitanya Devaguptapu, 2018 - 19 (Next: MTech, IIT Hyderabad)
  • Harshitha Machiraju, 2018 - 19 (Next: PhD, EPFL)
  • Satwik Kondamudi, 2018-19 (Next: Deep Learning and Computer Vision R&D, Ernst and Young)
  • Aditya Chattopadhyay, 2017 - 18 (Next: PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ under Prof Rene Vidal)

Undergrad Students

  • Devansh Agarwal, 2020 (Next: Amazon, Hyderabad), Silver Medal for Academic Excellence, BTech in Engineering Science
  • Ninad Akolekar, 2020
  • Udit Maniyar, 2020 (Next: Amazon, Hyderabad)
  • Sukrut Rao, 2019 (Next: PhD, Max Planck Institute), President of India Gold Medal
  • Vaibhav Sinha, 2019 (Next: Masters, UT-Austin), Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and Extracurricular Activities
  • Vishwak Srinivasan, 2019 (Next: Masters in ML, CMU)
  • Rahul Agarwal, 2019 (Next: Rakuten, Japan)
  • Aditya Gulati, 2019 (Next: Deep Learning Engineer, KLA, Chennai)
  • Sneha Reddy, 2018 (Next: Google AI Residency, Mountain View), Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and Extracurricular Activities
  • Bhavana Jain, 2018 (Next: Facebook AI Residency, Menlo Park -> UIUC)
  • Yash Chandarana, 2018 (Next: Masters, CMU)
  • Arjun D Cunha, 2018 (Next: Masters, Columbia)
  • Ayushi Patel, 2018 (Next: Masters, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  • Ramakrishna R M, 2018 (Next: Masters, University of Lugano/IDSIA, Switzerland)
  • Tanya Marwah, 2017 (Next: Masters, CMU -> PhD in ML, CMU)
  • B Akilesh, 2017 (Next: Adobe -> Masters, MILA, Univ of Montreal)
  • Akshita Mittel, 2017 (Next: Masters, CMU -> Amazon Lab 126 -> NVIDIA)
  • Phaneendra Babu, 2017 (Next: Salesforce)
  • Sahil Manocha, 2017 (Next: Masters, Columbia)
  • Hrishikesh Vaidya, 2017 (Next: Masters, Columbia)
  • Sreekar Reddy, 2017 (Next: Masters, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  • Surya Teja Chavali, 2017 (Next: Masters, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Abhay Gupta, 2016 (Next: Microsoft -> Masters, CMU)
  • Richik Jaiswal, 2016 (Next: Hikari-Tsushin, Japan -> Masters, NYU)
  • Rohit Reddy, 2016 (Next: Masters, NYU)
  • Vemuru Kali Charan, 2016
  • Abhinand Sai, 2016
  • Sagar Adhikari, 2016
  • Aditya Kamath, 2015 (Next: Masters, Georgia Tech -> Salesforce, CA), President of India Gold Medal for Academic Excellence
  • Aradhya Biswas, 2015 (Next: PhD, Georgia Tech)
  • Rishu Agrawal, 2015 (Next: Masters, ETH Zurich)
  • Sanjoti Thakare, 2015 (Next: Salesforce)
  • Ritvik Jaiswal, 2015 (Next: Masters, UCSD)
  • Bhargav Reddy, 2015 (Next: AMD R&D -> PhD, Princeton)
  • Wupadrasta Sai Kiran, 2015 (Next: Qualcomm -> Adobe)

Interns

  • Sanny Kim, Minerva KGI, USA
  • G Sai Sudheer, Persistent Systems
  • Aditya A, NIT-Surathkal (Next: Masters, CMU)
  • Abarna Venkat, PSG-Coimbatore
  • Kamal Awasthi, 2017 - 18 (IIIT-Vadodara)