Education and Academic Positions
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2019 - Now |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
Student (2019), Research Affiliate (2019-2020), Researcher (2020-now)
Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab
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2019 - Now |
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Non-Employee PhD Student (2019-2020), Researcher (2020-now)
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
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2019 - 2022 |
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Research Affiliate
Machine Intelligence Lab at Boston Children Hospital
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06/2018 |
University of Paris-Sud, and
LIMSI, Paris, France
Visiting Researcher
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2017 - 2020 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; MIT Media Lab - Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MGH - Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Ph.D. (3 years, 1 month & 14 days) Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning with Grade: 1.0/1.0 (awarded with distinction)
Thesis Self-supervised Face Representation Learning
Host Universities:
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Researcher/Student at MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Non-Employee Ph.D. Student at Dept. of Radiology, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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2015 - 2017 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Research Assistant,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ESAT-PSI/VISICS
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2012 - 2014 |
University Jean Monnet, University of Granada, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and University of Eastern Finland
M.Sc. (1 year & 9 months) Color in Informatics & Media Technology
Thesis Title: Training and Evaluation of a Framework for Pixel-wise Object Class Segmentation based on Synthetic Depth Data
Host Laboratory: Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR) - Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Partner Universities: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Oslo (UiO), and Oslo University Hospital HF.
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2014 |
Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, Gjøvik, Norway
Student Research Assistant
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2014 |
ZenRobotics, Gjøvik, Norway
Student Research Assistant
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2013 |
Color Imaging Lab & Tecnalia Robotiker, Granada, Spain
Summer Intern
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2013 |
CEAMA, Granada, Spain
Student Research Assistant,
NASA AERONET (AErosol Robotic NETwork)
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2011 - 2012 |
Fraunhofer IOSB,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Associate,
Visual Inspection Systems (SPR)
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2011 - 2012 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Guest Researcher,
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR) - Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR)
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2007 - 2011 |
B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Pilani, India
B.Tech. (4 years), Computer Science & Engineering
Thesis Title: Gesture Recognition & Reproduction
Host Laboratory: Aditya Birla Training & Research Center
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Honours and Awards
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2019
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Best Paper Award @ FG’19.
Vivek Sharma, Makarand Tapaswi, M. Saquib Sarfraz, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. Self-Supervised
Learning of Face Representations for Video Face Clustering. In IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture
Recognition (FG)
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2019
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Karlsruhe House of Young Scientist (KHYS) Scholarship. Awarded an amount of 7,250 Euros for my visit to MIT
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2018
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CVPR Student Volunteering Award
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2017
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ICCV Student Volunteering Award (declined)
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2012-2014
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CIMET,
European Commission Scholarship, Erasmus Mundus Action-A
Awarded an amount of 48,000 Euros for my Master program, selected among 500 candidates
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2011
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Appreciation. Among the top 10% graduated B.Tech. in Computer Science from BKBIET
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2009
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QUASAR, Best Event Organized Award
Awarded for organizing the best event in the Annual Technical Fest at BKBIET
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Member of Organizations
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2015 - Now
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Student Member,
CVF, Member of Computer Vision Foundation
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2015 - 2017
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Representative of KU Leuven,
SpectroNet Cross-clustering Collaboration Forum
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2015 - 2017
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Vice President,
OSA, Member of Optical Society of America and Society for
Applied Spectroscopy, KU Leuven Chapter
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2011 - 2017
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Vice President,
SPIE, Member of Society of Optics and Photonics, KU
Leuven Chapter
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2014 - 2014
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Student Member,
Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals (TEKNA), Gjøvik Univsersity College Chapter
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2011 - 2014
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Technical Leader,
Optics Students Karlsruhe (OSKar - OSA, SPIE), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chapter
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2010 - 2011
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Secretary,
IEEE B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology Chapter, Region 10
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2008 - 2011
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Co-Founder and President,
Technorats,Technical Club, B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology
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Conferences Organized
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2019
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ICCV Workshop on Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding. To be held at Seoul, Korea. Organizing with Ali Diba (KU Leuven, Sensifai), Mohsen Fayyaz (Uni.
Bonn), Manohar Paluri (Facebook AI Research), Juergen Gall (Uni. Bonn), Rainer Stiefelhagen (KIT)
and Luc Van Gool (ETH Zurich, KU Leuven)
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2016
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OSA and SPIE. Symposium in Optics under the SPIE/OSA KU Leuven Student Chapter
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2012
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OSA and SPIE. International Conference under the OSA KIT Chapter, Student Branch OSKar
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2010
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IEEE. National Level conference on Green Earth under the IEEE BKBIET Chapter, Student Branch (Region 10)
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2010
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IEEE. Talk on Chandrayan II (Space Vehicle Flight & Launch) under the IEEE BKBIET Chapter, Student Branch (Region 10)
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Languages
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English
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Advanced
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German
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Intermediate Level B1: Conversationally fluent
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Hindi
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Mother Tongue
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