People
Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Professor and UC Presidential Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering (Cooperating)
Co-Director, UC Riverside AI Research and Education Institute
Principal Investigator, Vision and Learning Group
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering (Cooperating)
Co-Director, UC Riverside AI Research and Education Institute
Principal Investigator, Vision and Learning Group
Postdocs
Hasin Us Sami
Sayak Nag
PhD Students
Arindam Dutta
Fahim Faisal Niloy
Manyi Yao
(co-advised with Christian Shelton)
Md Shazid Islam
Niki Nezakati
(co-advised with Vishwanath Saragadam)
Rohit Kundu
Sarosij Bose
(co-advised with Konstantinos Karydis)
Trishna
Chak.
(co-advised with Chengyu Song)
Udita Ghosh
Yash Garg
(co-advised with Salman Asif)
MS Students
Shashwat Jha
Shreyanshu Bera
Undergrad Students
Hannah Dela Cruz
Brandon C Marcus
Former Students and Research Collaborators
- Sayak Nag (PhD 2025)
Thesis: Uncertainty in Computer Vision: From Open-Set Recognition to Scene Graphs - Xiangyu Chang (PhD 2025)
Huawei
Thesis: Machine Learning in Resource-Constrained Distributed and Dynamic Environments - Calvin Khang-Ta (PhD 2024)
Dolby Research
Thesis: Implicit and Multi-modal priors for Image Analysis in the Wild - Cody Simons (PhD 2024)
Thesis: Vision Language Guided Scene Understanding and Navigation - Miraj Ahmed (PhD 2024)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thesis: Source Free Domain Adaptive Machine Learning and Unlearning - Dripta Raychaudhuri (PhD 2023)
Amazon Science
Thesis: Learning to Adapt across Distribution and User Constraint Shifts for Static and Dynamic Tasks - Abhishek Aich (PhD 2023)
NEC Labs, USA
Thesis: Towards Reliable Learning Systems: Efficient, Secure, and Generalizable Generative Models - Sudipta Paul (PhD 2022)
Samsung Research
Thesis: Learning to Align Multimodal Data for Static and Dynamic Tasks - Ghazal Mazaheri (PhD 2022)
Walmart Labs
Thesis: Robustness of Vision-Language Systems to Intentional and Incidental Adversity - Akash Gupta (PhD 2021)
Vimaan Robotics, Inc.
Thesis: Video Enhancement using Internal Learning and Blind Priors - Shasha Li (PhD 2021)
Amazon Science
Thesis: Spatial and Motion Context for Adversarial Attacks on Vision Systems - Sujoy Paul (PhD 2020)
Google Research
Thesis: Learning with Limited Supervision for Static and Dynamic Tasks - Tahmida Mahmud (PhD 2019)
Nauto, Inc.
Thesis: Near-Future Prediction in Videos: Applications in Video Annotation and Frame Reconstruction - Niluthpol Mithun (PhD 2019)
SRI International
Thesis: Learning Robust Visual-Semantic Retrieval Models with Limited Supervision - Rameswar Panda (PhD 2018)
IBM-MIT Labs
Thesis: Visual Learning with Weak Supervision: Applications in Video Summarization and Person Re-identification - Jawadul H. Bappy (PhD 2018)
Facebook
Thesis: Context-Aware Informative Sample Selection and Image Forgery Detection - Katya Mkrtchyan (PhD 2016)
Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge
Thesis: Video Bioinformatics with Applications in Cell Biology and Entomology - Mahmudul Hasan (PhD 2016)
Comcast Labs
Thesis: Online Activity Understanding and Labeling in Natural Videos - Shu Zhang (PhD 2015)
Salesforce
Thesis: Wide-Area Video Understanding: Tracking, Video Summarization and Algorithm-Platform Co-Design - Abir Das (PhD 2015)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Thesis: Active Learning in Multi-Camera Networks, With Applications in Person Re-Identification - Ramya Srinivasan (PhD 2015)
Fujitsu Lab, USA
Thesis: Investigating the Role of Saliency for Face Recognition - Yingying Zhu (PhD 2014)
Google
Thesis: Towards Sparse Modeling of Multi-Object Interactions in Video - Nandita Nayak (PhD 2014)
NVIDIA Inc.
Thesis: Graphical Models for Wide-Area Activity Analysis in Continuous Videos - Anirban Chakraborty (PhD 2014)
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Thesis: Exploration of Contextual Relationships for Robust Video Analysis: Applications in Camera Networks, Bio-image Analysis and Activity Forecasting - Chong Ding (PhD 2013)
Blue River Technology
Thesis: Coordinated Sensing in Intelligent Camera Networks - Ahmed Tashrif Kamal (PhD 2013)
Apple, USA
Thesis: Information Weighted Consensus for Distributed Estimation in Vision Networks - Min Liu (PhD 2012)
Associate Prof. at Hunan University, China
Thesis: Feature Extraction in Volumetric Bioimages - Antony Lam (PhD 2010)
Mercari Inc
Thesis: Learning Ranking Functions for Video Search on the Web (co-advised with Prof. C. Shelton) - Ricky Sethi (PhD 2009)
Asst. Prof. at Fitchburg State University
Thesis: A Physics-Based Neurobiologically-Inspired Stochastic Framework for Activity Recognition - Bi Song (PhD 2009)
Qualcomm
Thesis: Scene Analysis, Control and Communication in Distributed Camera Networks - Yilei Xu (PhD 2008)
Facebook AI
Thesis: A Theoretical Analysis of Image Appearance Models With Applications in Face Recognition - Saketh Bachu (MS 2025)
Machine Learning Engineer at EvenUp - Anirudh Thatipelli (MS 2024)
PhD at UCF - Rohit Lal (MS 2024)
Computer Scientist II at NASA-Impact - Sujith Kumar Sashikanth (MS 2023)
- Thomas Dougherty (MS 2019)
- Elliot Staudt (MS 2015)
Mayachitra Inc. - Utkarsh Gaur (MS 2010)
Apple - Ting Yeuh Jeng (MS 2009)
- Cristian Soto (MS 2008)
- Luis Gonzalez-Argueta (MS 2009)
- Niki Martinel, University of Udine, Italy, Visiting Researcher
- Amran Bhuiyan, Italian Institute of Technology, Visiting Researcher
- Aske R Lejbølle, Aalborg University, Denmark, Visiting Researcher