People

Convenor

Venkatesh Babu received his Ph.D degree from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he held postdoctoral positions at NTNU, Norway and IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France, through ERCIM fellowship. Subsequently, he worked as a research fellow at NTU, Singapore. He spent a couple of years working in the industry before returning to the institute in August 2010. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), IISc, where he leads Vision and AI Lab (VAL) (formerly, Video Analytics Lab) at IISc. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Multimedia. He is a recipient of the SERB Star (2020) and Sathish Dhawan Young Engineer Awards (2019). He is a senior member of IEEE and AAAI. Prof. R. Venkatesh has been recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2020 to 2025. He served as a Program Chair of the AIML-Systems 2023 conference and serving as General Chair of ICVGIP'24.

Professional Activities

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2024- Present

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP), 2023- Present

Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Present

Associate Editor, CVIU, 2023- Dec. 2024

Action Editor, TMLR, 2024 - Present

Area Chair, CVPR 2022/23/24/25

Area Chair, NeurIPS 2023/24

Area Chair, ICLR 2024/25

Area Chair, AAAI 2022/24/25

Area Chair, ICCV 2023, 2025

Area Chair, ECCV 2024

Area Chair, ICML, 2025

Area Chair, WACV 2022/24/25

Area Chair, ACML 2022/23/24

Area Chair, AISTATS 2023/24/25

Area Chair, ACCV 2024

Google Scholar

Current Students :

PhD

1. Abhipsa Basu (Joined - Jan. 2021) [PMRF Fellow]
2. Rishubh Parihar (Joined - Aug. 2021) [PMRF Fellow]
3. Ankit Dhiman (Joined - Aug. 2021) [ERP - Samsung]
4. Badrinath Singhal (Joined - Aug. 2023)
5. Priyam Dey (Joined - Jan. 2024) [Jointly with Prof. S. P. Arun, CNS]

Masters

1. Aakash Kumar Singh (M.Tech (Res), Joined - Aug. 2023)
2. Varun Varma Thozhiyoor (M.Tech (Res), Joined - Aug. 2024)
3. Bharat KRP. (M.Tech (AI), Joined - Aug. 2023)
4. Yasaswini B. (M.Tech (AI), Joined - Aug. 2023)
5. Harikrishna Metta (M.Tech (AI), Joined - Aug. 2023)
6. Shreeya Garg (M.Tech (AI), Joined - Aug. 2023)

Project Assistants

1. Srinjay Sarkar (USC, Mar. 2023 -)
2. Sachidanand VS (IITM, Aug. 2023 - ) [KIAC Predoc fellow]
3. Aditya Sahdev (IITD Aug. 2023-)
4. Sunny Bhati (IITM/Indiana Uni., Jan. 2024-) [KIAC Predoc fellow]
5. Ninad Aithal (SIT, Mangalore, Aug. 2024 -)
6. Kunal Kathare (PES University, Oct. 2024-)
7. Mohana Singh (MS, IIT Mandi, Nov. 20234 -)

Interns

1. Sabariswaran Mani (IIT-KGP, May. 2023 -)
2. Amit Mundur (MSRIT, May 2024 -)
3. Syed Danish (IIT-Patna, May. 2024 -)
4. Shreyas Jena (IIT-KGP, May. 2024 -)
5. Bibhudatta Bhanja (IIT-KGP, May. 2024 -)
6. Vaibhav Agarwal (IIIT-Hyderabad, May 2024 -)
7. Lokesh Badisha (IIT-Hyderabad, May 2024 -)
8. Aviral Gupta (BITS - Pilani, May 2024 -)
9. Harsh Swaika (IITD, May 2024 -)
10. Raghav Ravishankar (VIT, May 2024 -)
11. Adarsh Shirawalmath (VIT, May 2024 -)
12. Rohit Singh (IITM (B.Sc DS), May 2024 -)

Alumni

Ph.D

1. Ravi Kiran S. (PhD, Aug. 2014- Jan. 2018) [TCS PhD Fellow] [IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018 and Sir Vithal N Chandavarkar Memorial Medal 2019-20], Associate Prof. at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad.
2. Konda Reddy Mopuri (PhD, Aug. 2012 - Jul. 2018) [IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019, SPCOM Best Dissertation Award 2020], Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad.
3. Deepak Babu Sam (PhD, Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2020), Qualcomm.
4. Ram Prabhakar K. (Ph.D, Aug. 2014 - Oct. 2021), Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University.
5. Jogendra Nath Kundu (Ph.D., Aug. 2016 - July 2022), [WIRI/Google PhD Fellow] [ ACM India 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention, 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation In Data Science Award - Runner up, Sir Vithal N Chandavarkar Memorial Medal 2024 and IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023 ] Research Scientist, Reality Labs Research, Meta, USA.
6. Sravanti Addepalli (Ph.D. Aug. 2018 - May 2024) [Google PhD Fellow] [ IKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award in Data Science 2024 and IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2024 ], Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Bangalore
7. Harsh Rangwani (Aug. 2019 - July 2024) [PMRF Fellow]

M.Tech (Res)

1. S. Avinash Ramakanth (M.Sc, 2011-2014), [Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2014-15], Bright Money (Founder), Bangalore. [ Google Scholar ]
2. Sovan Biswas (M.Sc (Engg), 2011-2014), AI Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Germany. [ Google Scholar ]
3. Srinivas Kruthiventi (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2013-16), [Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2016-17], Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft [ Google Scholar ]
4. Nikita Prabhu (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2013-16), Applied Scientist, Amazon. [ Google Scholar]
5. Suraj Srinivas (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2014-17), Postdoc, Harvard University. [ Google Scholar]
6. Avishek Majumder (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2018), Senior Data Scientist, Xccelerate. [ Google Scholar]
7. Vivek B. S.(M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2019) Researcher, TCS Research. [ Google Scholar]
8. Navaneet K.L.(M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2019) [NetApp Medal for the best M.Tech (Research) thesis for the year 2020 ] Ph.D student at UC Davis. [ Google Scholar]
9. Tejan Karmali (M.Tech (Res), Aug. 2019 - March 2022), Ph.D Student, Stanford University.[ Google Scholar]

M.Tech

1. Sreekanth Raja (M. Tech, 2010),  NPOL, DRDO, Cochin
2. Priti Parate (M. Tech, 2010), Principal Software Engg., Dell
3. Rajendra Kumar (M. Tech 2010), Tech Lead, Wafer Space
   
4. Sanjeev K. (M. Tech, 2011)
5. Aniruddha Acharya (M. Tech, 2012), Microsoft
6. Jayasimha Talur (M. Tech, 2012), Microsoft
7. Nikhilesh(M.Tech, 2014-2016)
8. Jaley Dholakiya (M. Tech, 2013-2015), Senior Data Scientist, Walmart
9. Snehansu Sekhar Sahu (M.Tech, 2015-2017), Applied Scientist, Amazon
10. Rakesh Kumar Mallick(M.Tech, - 2015-2017), Research Scientist AI/ML, Intel Corporation
11. Srinivas Kumar (M.Tech, - 2015-2017), Capital One
12. Abinaya K.(M.Tech, Aug. 2017 - Jun. 2019), Data Scientist, Flipkart
13. Govind Waghmare (M.Tech, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2020), Senior Data Scientist, Mastercard
14. Arya Baburaj (M.Tech, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2020), Data Scientist, Flipkart
15. Kaushal Bhogale (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021) [Motorola Medal] , Ph.D student, IITM
16. Shivangi Khare (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Applied Scientist, Oracle
17. Amit Kumar Singh (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Senior Data Scientist, Target
18. Naman Jaswani (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2020 - June 2022), Data Scientist, Flipkart
19. Soumalya Nandi (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2020 - June 2022) [Motorola Medal] , Senior Data Scientist, Target
20. Vijayakumar Thanelanka (M.Tech (AI), Aug. 2020 - Jun 2022), Systems Engineer, Qualcomm
21. Batta Ajay Kumar (M.Tech (AI), Aug. 2020 -Jun 2022), Data Scientist, Lowe's India
22. Prasanna B. (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2021 --Jun 2023)
23. Likith P (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2022 --Jun 2024)
24. Ankit Kumar Sinha (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2022 --Jun 2024)
25. Harsh Gupta (M.Tech (CSA), Aug. 2022 --Jun 2024)

Past :

1. Om Rastogi (JSSATE, Apr. 2024- Sep. 2024)
2. Manan Shah (IIT Mandi, Apr. 2024- Nov. 2024)
3. R Srinath (DSCE, Jul. 2022 - Oct. 2024), Researcher at UnscriptAI
4. Abhijnya Bhat (PES, Bangalore, May 2023- Aug. 2024), Qualcomm
5. Soumyajit Karmakar (IIIT Guwahati, Oct. 23d - Jul. 2024) MS (CSE) student at UCSD
6. Ashish Ramyee Asokan (PES, May. 2022 - Jul. 24, KIAC Predoc Fellow), MS (Machine Learning) student at CMU
7. Mayank Mishra (UPES, Dehradun, Aug. 2021 - Jun. 2023), MS (Robotics) student at CMU
8. Shrinivas Ramasubramanian (IITB, Sep. 2021 - May 2023), MS (Robotics) student at CMU
9. Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick (VIT, Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2024), RA, CMU
10. Anirudh Bansal (DTU, Feb. 2023 - Aug. 2023), MS(CS) student at University of Maryland
11. Suvaansh Bhambri (IIT Roorkee, Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2022), ML Engineer, Adobe
12. Priyam Dey (IIT Bhubaneswar, Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2022), PhD student at VAL, IISc
13. Sunandini Sanyal (Aug. 2020 - Jan 2023) [PMRF Fellow], Lead Engineer, Adobe
14. Jogendra Nath Kundu (Ph.D., Aug. 2016 - July 2022), Research Scientist at Reality Labs Research, Meta
15. Sumukh Aithal (PES, Bangalore, Jun. 2020 - Jun 2022) MS (Machine Learning) student at CMU
16. Vijayakumar Thanelanka (M.Tech (AI), Aug. 2020 - Jun 2022), MM systems Engineer, Qualcomm
17. Batta Ajay Kumar (M.Tech (AI), Aug. 2020 -Jun 2022), Data Scientist, Lowe's India
18. Akshay Kulkarni (VNIT Nagpur, June. 2020 - July 2022), PhD student at UC San Diego
19. Naman Jaswani (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2020 - June 2022), Applied Research Specialist, Adobe
20. Soumalya Nandi (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2020 - June 2022), Senior Data Scientist, Target
21. Tejan Karmali (M.Tech (Res), Aug. 2019 - March 2022), Research Engineer, Avataar -> PhD Student, Stanford
22. Susmit Agrawal (VTU, Aug. 2020 - Jan 2022) Masters student, IIT Hyderabad
23. Ram Prabhakar K. (Ph.D, Aug. 2014 - Oct. 2021), Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University
24. Vishal Vinod (VTU, Jul. 2020 - May 2021), MS (UCSD), Research Engineer at Glass Imaging, USA
25. Abhinav Atrishi (NSUT Delhi, Aug. 2020 - May 2021 ), MS (UPenn), Computer Vision Engineer, March9
26. Kaushal Bhogale (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Ph.D student at IITM
27. Gokkulnath TS (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Feb. 2021 - May. 2021)
28. Shivangi Khare (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Software Engineer, Google
29. Amit Kumar Singh (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Senior Data Scientist, Target
30. Arihant Jain (M.Tech (CDS), Aug. 2019 - Jul 2021), Applied Scientist, Nvidia
31. Rakesh Mugalodi (BITS Pilani, May 2019 - May 2021) MS (GeorgiaTech) -> Nvidia
32. Prabhat Kumar (Aug. 2019 - May 2021), Research Engineer at Ola Electric
33. Deepak Babu Sam (PhD, Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2020) Research Scientist, Qualcomm
34. Nihar Ranjan Sahoo (Proj. Asst., Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020), PhD student, IIT Bombay
35. Naveen Venkat (Proj. Asst., Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2020), MS (CMU) -> Research Scientist at Runway
36. Ambareesh Revanur (Proj. Asst., Jul. 2019 - Jul. 2020) MS (CMU) -> ML Engineer, Adobe, USA
37. Jimmy Joseph (Proj. Asst., Oct. 2019 - Nov. 2020), MS Student at Stony Brook University
38. Ayush Mehta (Proj. Asst., Mar. 2020 - Nov. 2020) now at AiDash
39. Abhinav Agarwalla (Proj. Asst., Jan. 2020 - Nov. 2020) MSCV, CMU -> Machine Learning Research Engineer at Neural Magic
40. Govind Waghmare (M.Tech, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2020) now at Mastercard
41. Arya Baburaj (M.Tech, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2020) now at Flipkart
42. Rajat Arora (Proj. Asst., Oct. 2018-Sep. 2019), MS student, Stony Brook University
43. Jay Patravali (Proj. Asst., Dec. 2018 - May. 2019), now MS Student at Oregon State University
44. Vivek B. S. (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2019) TCS Research
45. Navaneet K.L. (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2019) [NetApp Medal for the best M.Tech (Research) thesis for the year 2020 ] PhD student at UMBC
46. Abinaya K. (M.Tech, Aug. 2017 - Jun. 2019) Flipkart
47. Rahul Venkatesh (Proj. Asst., Jul., 2018 - Jun. 2019) MS student at CMU
48. Skand Vishwanath Peri (Proj. Asst., Sep., 2018-Apr. 2019) Proj. Asst. at Rutgers University
49. Priyanka Mandikal (Proj. Asst., Aug, 2017-Mar. 2019) PhD student at University of Texas, Austin
50. Maharshi Gor (Proj. Asst., Jan., 2018-Jan, 2019) PhD student, UMD
51. Vaisakh Shaj (Proj. Asst., Sep., 2018-Dec. 2018) PhD student at Uni. Lincoln, UK
52. Aditya Ganeshan (Proj. Asst., Jul, 2017-Nov. 2018) PhD student at Brown Uni.
53. Amogh Kamath (Proj. Asst, Apr., 2018 - Nov. 2018)
54. Konda Reddy Mopuri (PhD, Aug. 2012 - Jul. 2018) [IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019, SPCOM Best Dissertation Award 2020 ] Assistant Professor, IIT Guwahati
55. Avishek Majumder (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2018), Data Scientist, MPAM
56. Ravi Kiran S (PhD, Aug. 2014- Jan. 2018) [IUPRAI Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018 and Sir Vithal N Chandavarkar Memorial Medal 2019-20 ] Now Asst. Prof. at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad.
57. Phani Krishna (Proj. Asst., Aug. 2017-Jul. 2018), Masters student in Robotics at CMU
58. Anuj Pahuja (Proj. Asst., Oct. 2017-May 2018), Research Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs
59. Neeraj Sajjan (Proj. Asst., Sep., 2017-Mar., 2018), now MS student at CMU
60. Shiv Surya (March, 2016- Jul'17), now at Amazon
61. Suraj Srinivas (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2014-17), PhD student at Idiap, Switzerland
62. Snehansu Sekhar Sahu (M.Tech, 2015-2017)
63. Rakesh Kumar Mallick(M.Tech, - 2015-2017)
64. Srinivas Kumar (M.Tech, - 2015-2017), Capital One
65. Varun Akshay ((Proj. Asst) - July, 2016-May, 17), PhD student at UMBC
66. Isht Dwivedi ((Proj. Asst) - Aug, 2016-May 17), MS (Columbia Uni) -> Research Engineer, HRI
67. Abhijat Biswas ((Proj. Asst) - Oct., 2016-Apr. 17), now PhD student at CMU
68. Jayasimha Talur ((Proj. Asst) - Feb., 2017-Jun 17), Microsoft -> Amazon
69. Srinivas Kruthiventi (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2013-16), [Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2016-17] Now at Samsung-Harman -> MIcrosoft
70. Nikita Prabhu (M.Sc (Engg), Aug. 2013-16), Now at Amazon
71. Nikhilesh(M.Tech, 2014-2016)
72. Jaley Dholakiya (M. Tech, 2013-2015), Harman
73. Lokesh Boominathan(Proj. Asst), Now Ph.D student at Rice University.
74. Nithish Divakar (M. Tech, 2013-2015) Senior Researcher, Rakuten -> Senior ML Engineer, LinkedIn
75. Souradeep Chakraborty(Proj. Asst),  Ph.D. student at UCSB.
76. Sreekanth Raja (M. Tech, 2010),  NPOL, DRDO, Cochin
77. Priti Parate (M. Tech, 2010),  Dell, Bangalore
78. Rajendra Kumar (M. Tech 2010), AMD, Bangalore
    
79. Naresh Kumar M. S. (Proj. Asst), M.S (UCSD)
80. Ashwini M. J. (Proj. Asst), IBM, Bangalore
    
81. Sanjeev K. (M. Tech, 2011)
82. Manu Tom (Proj. Asst) Ph.D student at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
83. Suraj Vantigodi (Proj. Asst), Bosch, Bangalore
    
84. Gnana Praveen (Proj. Asst), Samsung, Bangalore.
85. Aniruddha Acharya (M. Tech, 2012), Microsoft
86. Jayasimha Talur (M. Tech, 2012), PA at VAL
87. S. Avinash Ramakanth (M.Sc, 2011-2014), [Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2014-15], Bright Money (Founder), Bangalore.
88. Nirmal Jith (Proj. Asst), Aindra Systems, Bangalore.
89. Sovan Biswas (M.Sc (Engg), 2011-2014), Ph.D student at University of Bonn, Germany.
    

Interns (Past) :

1. Samyak Jain (IIT-BHU, May. 2020 - May 2023), Research Fellow, Microsoft
2. Pradipto Mandal (IIT-KGP, May. 2022 - Mar. 2024), Intern, Adobe
3. Kunal Samanta (IISc [BS], May. 2022 - Mar. 2024)
4. Adit Deshmukh (BITS Goa)
5. Shreesh Keskar (BITS Goa)
6. Siddhinita Wandekar (BITS Goa)
7. Anirudh Gururaj (BMSCE)
8. Himanshu Buckchash (IIT Roorkee)
9. Ashish Mittal (IIT Bombay)
10. Balraj Ashwath (NIT Surathkal)
11. Anush Kumar (MIT Manipal)
12. Kunal Pratap Singh (IIT Roorkee)
13. Sashank Kashyap (IIT Roorkee)
14. Naveen Venkat, (BITS Pilani, Jan., 2019)
15. Rahul Chand, (BITS Pilani, Jan., 2019-May 2019)
16. Jay Patravalli (VIT, Sep.-Nov., 2018)
17. Rahul Venkatesh (RVCE, Jan-Jun., 2018)
18. Mayank Agarwal (BITS, Jan-Jun., 2018)
19. Kirnesh Nandan (IIT-R, Jan-Apr., 2018)
20. Utsav Garg (NTU, Singapore, Aug., 2016 - Jun 17)
21. Aditya Ganeshan (IIT-R, Jan-Jun., 2017)
22. Skand, (Intern, 2017), IIT, Ropar
23. Srikar Y M, (Intern, 2017), IIT, Hyderabad
24. Utkarsh Ojha (Intern, 2017), MNNIT, Allahabad
25. Swetha V C (Intern, 2017), IIST, Trivandrum
26. Prerit Gupta (Intern, 2017), IIT, Kharagpur
27. Ashutosh Adhikari (Intern, 2017), DAIICT, Gandhinagar
28. Trisha Mittal (Intern, 2016), IIIT-Bangalore
29. Harsh Agarwal (Intern, 2016), IIT-BHU, Varanasi
30. G. Swaminathan (Intern, 2016), IIT-BHU, Varanasi
31. Hrishikesh Vaidya (Intern, 2016), IIT, Hyderabad
32. Ravi Sundaram (Intern, 2016), NIT, Trichy
33. Hrishikesh Vaidya (Intern, 2016), IIT, Hyderabad
34. V Sai Srikar (Intern, 2016), IIT, Hyderabad
35. Sahil Manocha (Intern, 2016), IIT, Hyderabad
36. Priyanka Bedarkar (BITS-Goa), (June - Dec. 2016)
37. Vishal Athreya (BITS-Hyderabad) , (June - Dec. 2016)
38. Kumar Ayush (Intern, 2015), IIT, Kharagpur
39. V. Shanthakumar (Intern, 2015), IIT, Hyderabad
40. Hriday Samboju (Intern, 2015), IIT, Hyderabad
41. Sudharshan Suresh (Intern, 2015), NIT, Trichy
42. Meenakshi Naidu (Intern, 2015), NIT, Trichy
43. Kumaresh Krishnan (Intern, 2015), IIIT, Bangalore
44. Nagarathna Nayak (Intern, 2015), PESIT, Bangalore
45. Sai Srivatsa (Intern, 2014), IIT, Kharagpur
46. Chintak Sheth (Intern 2014), BITS, Goa
47. Aishwarya Gunaputi (Intern, 2014), NIT, Surathkal
48. Shahil Arora (Intern, 2013), IIT, Kharagpur
49. Bhuvnesh Agarwal (Intern, 2011), IIT, Kharagpur
50. Vennila Megavannan (Intern, 2011), Hewlett-Packard, Bangalore
    
51. Sudarshan S. (Intern, 2012), IIT, Hyderabad
52. Avinash Ruchandani (Intern, 2012), IIT, Kharagpur
    

Harsh's Defense Day Party (17 Jan. 2025)