Sarthak Kumar Maharana

I'm a second-year CS PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), advised by Dr. Yunhui Guo. Before this, I obtained my MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Bachelor's degree from IIIT Bhubaneswar (IIIT-Bh), India, with an honors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

My research interests broadly encompass multimodal learning (Vision + X) with a larger focus on the efficient adaptation of models to distributional shifts, improving their robustness, and generalization at test-time. Additional interests lie in data-centric ML (continual, few-shot, transfer learning), and human-centered AI. I am also engaged in projects on active learning and machine unlearning in generative models.

During my Masters, I closely worked with Dr. Yonggang Shi. Previously, I had also worked with Dr. Shri Narayanan. As an undergraduate, I was fortunate enough to work with Dr. Ren Hongliang (NUS), Dr. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (IISc), and Dr. Aurobinda Routray (IIT-Kharagpur).

I have published at top-tier ML/computer vision/signal processing conferences such as NeurIPS(2x), AAAI, ECCV, and ICASSP(2x).

I'm happy to chat and discuss potential collaborations. Feel free to contact me.

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