Sarthak Kumar Maharana

I am a CS PhD Candidate at The University of Texas at Dallas, advised by Dr. Yunhui Guo. Prior to this, I earned my MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. I completed my BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar, India.

I'm interested in building adaptive, efficient, and robust AI systems that keep learning when the world changes. My work spans continual learning, multimodal perception, and real-time motion planning and reasoning for autonomous driving.

Areas of interest: Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Physical AI.

Sub-areas: Continual Learning/Adaptation, Robust and Efficient Perception, On-Device AI, Autonomous Driving.

Open to research conversations & collaborations. Feel free to reach out!

Outside of my PhD, I try to stay active, consume unreasonable amounts of music, and maintain a completely healthy and proportionate obsession with cricket. I spend the rest of my free time contemplating life, the universe, consciousness, and other "lighthearted" topics. Open to random recs that I collect at a significantly faster rate than I can consume them, so naturally, do your deed!