Awards
- Bell Labs Breakthrough Project selection (Dec 2024)
- Outstanding Innovation Award, Nokia Bell Labs (Aug 2024)
- Outstanding Student Research Award, Nokia Bell Labs (Aug 2023)
- Best Demonstration Award, IEEE SECON (Sep 2022)
- Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Award (Sep 2017)
- First Class Scholarship (Top 3%), Guangdong University of Technology (Jun 2010)
- Second Class Scholarship (Top 8%), Guangdong University of Technology (Jun 2010)
- Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, WACV, IMWUT, MM, TIP, TNNLS, PR
Mentorship
- Ranjith Merugu (2025) — weight statistics-guided model merging via teacher distillation.
- Venkata Nithish Reddy Bhumireddy (2024) — CKA-based representation similarity on YOLO variants.
- Abhinav Sharma (2023–2024) — efficient CV pipelines (MobiCom 2024 S3 Workshop).
- Purna Rao Mallepaddi (2022) — CV pipelines; Kubernetes on Jetson Nano.
- Omkar Manjrekar (2021) — CV refactor; fast super-resolution; Kubernetes on Jetson Nano.
Skills
- Programming: Python, Java
- Machine Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn
- Computer Vision: CNNs, Vision Transformers, YOLO, OpenCV
- Systems & Simulation: Docker, Linux, Habitat-Sim, Habitat-Lab
Experience Highlights
- Structural pruning for CNNs (ResNet) and Transformers (ViT); explored zero-shot pruning while retaining accuracy.
- Class-Aware Structural Pruning (CASP) using Grad-CAM gradients for few-class settings.
- Class-similarity guided model selection for right-sized models in deployment scenarios.
- Vision–wireless identity association using camera + smartphone IMU + Wi-Fi FTM.
- Sequence models (BiLSTM, Transformers) and contrastive learning for cross-modal trajectory reconstruction.
- Robot visual navigation: hierarchical RL, metric learning, and 3D Gaussian Splatting.
- Sunrise Technology @ CEWIT — autonomous driving pipeline + Jetson TX1 end-to-end CNN.
- Ericsson Silicon Valley — AR collaboration system using HoloLens.
- IBM ISTC — enterprise server testing; Redfish report auto-generation front-end work.
