Published multiple journal papers such as 'DAD++: Improved Data-free Test Time Adversarial Defense', 'Adaptive Self-Distillation for Minimizing Client Drift in Heterogeneous Federated Learning', etc., covering fields like Neurocomputing, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC).
Research Experience
Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the convenor of the Visual Computing Lab (VCL); worked as a researcher at Robert Bosch Research and Technology Centre, India, from December 2016 to June 2017; previously a research fellow at the Rapid-Rich Object Search (ROSE) Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working on large scale, deployable video surveillance systems; post-doctoral fellow at the A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre at National University of Singapore, October 2014 to November 2015.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside, under the supervision of Prof. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, August 2014; M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the same institute, 2010; Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Background
Research interests: Developing novel computer vision and machine learning algorithms to solve visual analysis problems arising from diverse real-world applications. Major research areas include data-efficient & privacy-preserving deep learning, cross-modal computer vision, perceiving humans and their actions.