Publications: 1. “DeiT-LT: Distillation Strikes Back for Vision Transformer Training on Long-Tailed Datasets” accepted to CVPR'24; 2. “Selective Mixup Fine-Tuning for Optimizing Non-Decomposable Metrics” accepted to ICLR'24 for a Spotlight (Top-5%) presentation; 3. “Inducing Smoothness Regularization in Federated Learning” accepted to WACV'24. Other academic activities: 1. Invited Talk on “Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data” at IEEE Deep-Tech Seminar; 2. Serving as a reviewer for ECCV'24, ICML'24, AAAI'24, and ICLR'24; 3. Organized the Adobe-IISc GenAI Workshop; 4. Attended ICCV'23 in Paris with travel grants from Google and Kotak AI Centre.
Research Experience
Working at the intersection of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Interned with Amazon in the Outbound Marketing Automation team and was the lead maintainer of the placement portal site.
Education
PhD: Department of Computational and Data Science (CDS) at Indian Institute of Science, Advisor: Prof. Venkatesh Babu; Honors Degree: Department of Computer Science, IIT BHU Varanasi, Advisors: Dr. Rajeev Sangal and Dr. A.K. Singh.
Background
Research Interests: Deep learning algorithms that train and generalize well on real-world datasets, especially in the presence of class imbalances and distribution shifts. Professional areas: Computer Vision, Generative Models, Long Tail Learning, Domain Adaptation of Models, Loss Landscape and Optimization.
Miscellany
Personal interests: Reading books and playing basketball.