Area Chair at the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024; A member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS); The Best Paper Award by IEEE Computer Society (CVPRW 2020); A Most Interesting Publication by DeepAI (CVPR 2019); Best of ICCV 2015 invitation by International Journal of Computer Vision (2016); Accepted with Travel Support for ICCV Doctoral Consortium, ICCV 2015, Chile; Doctoral Research Scholarship by French National Research Agency (2012-15); Best Erasmus Master’s Thesis by PAL Robotics on Vibot Day, 2012, Spain; Master Research Scholarship by Conseil régional de Bourgogne, France (2011-12); Won three engineering competitions during undergraduate study in India; Nepal Aid Scholarship by the Government of India (2005).
Research Experience
Faculty at INSAIT, Sofia University (since 2023); Lecturer, senior researcher, and post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich (since 2016).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Vision from University of Bourgogne, CNRS, France (2016); Erasmus Mundus M.Sc. in Computer Vision, University of Bourgogne, France (2012).
Background
Research Interests: 3D Computer Vision, scene representation and understanding, spatial intelligence, Robotics, and Augmented Reality. Current research topics include real-time mapping and understanding of complex dynamic scenes, robust spatial reasoning from multi-modal and corrupted data, transfer learning from 2D data and textual sources to 4D understanding, vision-language models for task planning and Human-AI interaction, geometrically consistent and physically plausible Visual Generative models.