Students

they do all the hard work!

Note to Prospective Students
Thanks for your interest in working with our group. I am looking for 1 highly motivated RA from January 2026 and some IIIT students from Monsoon 2026. Filling this form before sending an email will increase your chances of me replying and will show that you are serious (and have read my website!).

I will not be taking any students for short-term or summer internships. Due to the overwhelming number of non-personalized email requests, apologies for not being able to reply to each one.

IIIT Hyderabad

PhD students

Degree students: MS Research / Dual Degree / UG

External/Project students and Research Assistants (RA)

Graduated Students

  • 2023-25: Haran Raajesh, UG Honors, next: PhD at UT Austin
  • 2022-25: Eshika Khandelwal, Dual degree, next: PhD at Uni Tübingen, Germany
  • 2022-24: Kawshik Manikantan, Dual degree, with Vineet Gandhi, next: Google DeepMind India (prev: AMD internship)
  • 2021-24: Darshan Singh, MS Research, next: Google DeepMind India (prev: FastCode.ai)
  • 2021-24: Dhruv Srivastava, MS Research, next: Adobe Research and part-time PhD
  • 2021-24: Aditya Kumar Singh, MS Research, next: AMD Research (prev: Microsoft Research internship)
  • 2021-23: Zeeshan Khan, MS Research, with CV Jawahar, next: PhD at Inria Paris

Other Past Members

  • 2023-25 Manu Gaur, RA, next: MS at CMU
  • 2024-25: Darshana Saravanan, MS Research with Vineet Gandhi, next: Microsoft Research internship
  • 2023-25: Vishal Mandadi, RA with Vladimir Petrik (CTU Prague), next: MS Robotics at CMU
  • 2024: Shashwat Singh, independent study
  • 2022-24: Piyush Bagad, MS -> PhD student with Cees Snoek (UvA), Andrew Zisserman (U. Oxford)
  • 2021-23: D Naveen Reddy, part-time RA, continue: Sensara Technologies
  • 2021-23: Nomaan Qureshi, RA with Vladimir Petrik (CTU Prague), next: MS Robotics at CMU
  • 2022-23: Amit Pandey, RA, next: Schneider Electric
  • 2022: Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • 2021-22: Anchit Gupta, with CV Jawahar (MS Research)
  • 2020-22: Rahul Vigneswaran, with V. Balasubramanian (IIT H) and Marc Law (Nvidia), next: MS at IIT H
  • 2021-22: Kartheek Akella, with CV Jawahar
  • 2021-22: Jaidev Shriram, independent study with Vinoo Alluri, next: MS at UCSD

Wadhwani AI (not students!):

I have the pleasure of working with and mentoring wonderful junior ML researchers at Wadhwani AI.

Inria Paris, France:

  • Pierre-Louis Guhur, PhD student with Ivan Laptev and Cordelia Schmid
  • Anna Kukleva, visiting Masters with Ivan Laptev, joined MPII-Saarbrücken as a PhD student

University of Toronto, Canada:

  • Paul Vicol, PhD student with the UofT ML group
  • Seung Wook Kim, Masters student with Sanja Fidler, continued as a PhD student at UofT
  • Atef Chaudhury, Masters student with Sanja Fidler, joined Google
  • Jiaman Li, Masters student with Sanja Fidler, joined USC as a PhD student
  • Yuhao (Henry) Zhou, Bachelor student with Sanja Fidler, joined FAIR as an AI resident

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany:

  • Vivek Sharma, PhD student with Rainer Stiefelhagen, joined MIT for a Postdoc
  • Monica-Laura Haurilet, Masters student with Rainer Stiefelhagen, joined KIT as a PhD student
  • Esam Ghaleb, visiting Masters student with Hazim Kemal Ekenel, joined Maastricht Uni as a PhD student