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 Labs
  Thesis: Machine Learning in Resource-Constrained Distributed and Dynamic Environments
• Calvin Khang-Ta (PhD 2024)
  Dolby Labs
  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
• 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