People

Manohar Kaul

Dr Manohar Kaul is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), where he heads the क्रम (Krama) Lab. His work involves developing practical machine learning algorithms with rigorous theoretical foundations.

Research Interests: Geometric machine learning (graph and point-cloud representation learning), Optimal transport (discrete OT and assignment problems), Applied algebraic topology (topological data analysis)

Anson Simon Bastos

Anson is a part-time PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). He has been working on solving research problems in Knowledge Graphs such as Relation Extraction, Link Prediction, Entity Linking etc.

Research Interests: Intersection of Machine learning, Topology, Geometric machine learning, Representation learning

Akshita Parekh

Akshita is a part-time Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). Her work involves developing machine learning algorithms for applications based on Auto ML.
She is also working in the IT section of a unit of the Department of Atomic Energy. She completed her M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai under the supervision of Dr. Gopika Vinod and Ms. Urvashi Karnani Gaur.

Research Interests: Scalable auto machine learning, Intersection of DBMS and machine learning

Subodh Nigam

Subodh is currently a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H).

Research Interests: Geometric machine learning

Vishal Singh Yadav

Vishal is currently a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H).

Research Interests: Geometric machine learning, Natural language processing, Graph neural networks

Jaynee Rawal

Jaynee is currently a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H).

Research Interests: Graph Neural Networks(Contrastive Learning and Representation Learning), Natural Language Processing

Charu Sharma

Charu was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). She received “Excellence in Research Award” in 2020 and “Certificate of Appreciation in Research” in 2019 at IIT Hyderabad.
She is now an Assistant Professor in Machine Learning Lab at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

Research Interests: Geometric machine learning, Point cloud data, Assignment problems, Optimal transport

Jatin Chauhan

Jatin was a undergraduate student in the department of CSE at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). He graduated with a B.Tech degree in Computer Science.
He is currenlty working at Google Research, Bangalore

Research Interests: Explainability and interpretability of deep neural networks (more specifically NLP models), Topological analysis of neural networks, Knowledge graphs, Graph neural networks

Deepak Nathani

Deepak was a undergraduate student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). He graduated with a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science as his second major.
During his time as an undergraduate in the lab, he worked on various research problems under Dr. Manohar Kaul. He is currenlty working at Google Research, Bangalore.

Research Interests: Controllable natural language generation, Conversational AI, Graph neural networks, Knowledge graph representation learning

Nikhil P. Kumaar

Nikhil was a masters student at IITH. He worked on his thesis titled Scene Graph Generation. He is currently working at NVIDIA.

Research Interests: Scene graphs

Pratik Shukla

Pratik was a masters student at IITH. He worked on his thesis titled Text Clustering using Graph Kernels. He is currently working at Qualcomm.

Research Interests: Knowledge graphs

Varun Mishra

Varun was a masters student at IITH. He worked on his thesis titled Document Simplicial Complexes. He is currently working at Flipkart.

Research Interests: Simplicial complexes, Natural language processing