Hello! I am Shivang Chopra, a second-year M.S. Thesis student in the Robotics Perception and Learning Lab (RIPL) at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Zsolt Kira. My research interests lie in theoretical machine learning and computer vision, with a focus on enhancing the adaptability and generalization capabilities of foundation models.

In the fall of 2023, I worked as a Computer Vision Research Intern at the Sony R&D Center, Switzerland in the Advanced Sensors & Modelling Group. During the summer of 2023, I interned at Amazon Science in the Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems, where I developed a ranking system for newly onboarded products on Amazon.com.

Before joining Georgia Tech, I worked at Microsoft Research Lab, India under the supervision of Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan. There, I contributed to Project HyWay, a computer vision-based system facilitating interaction in hybrid workspaces.

I have also gained research experience as an intern at the CARAML Lab, UT Dallas under the guidance of Dr. Rishabh Iyer, at IBM Research Lab India under the mentorship of Dr. Sameep Mehta and Nishtha Madaan, at MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah and at IIT Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Chetan Arora.

News

• Sept 2023: Started working as a Computer Vision Research Intern at Sony R&D Lab in Zurich, Switzerland.
• Aug 2023: Full paper titled “Learning to Discern: Imitating Heterogeneous Human Demonstrations with Preference and Representation Learning” accepted at CORL 2023.
• May 2023: Started working as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, Seattle.
• April 2023: Full paper titled “HyWay: Enabling Unstructured Conversations in the New Hybrid World” accepted at UbiComp 2023.
• April 2023: Workshop paper titled “Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence: Order Picking and Ambient Sensing” accepted at the Ambient AI Workshop in ICASSP 2023.
• August 2022: Started my Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology.
• July 2022: Workshop paper titled “Active Data Discovery: Mining Unknown Data using Submodular Information Measures” accepted at the Real World ML Workshop in ICLM 2022.
• May 2022: Started my research internship in Team HyWay at Microsoft Research Lab, India.
• July 2021: Started my research internship at the Faryabi Lab at UPenn.
• June 2020: Started my research internship at IBM Research Lab, India.
• January 2020: Highlight paper titled “Attention-based Sketch Recognition using Transformers” accepted at ECAI 2020.
• December 2019: Short paper titled “Utilizing Temporal Psycholinguistic Cues for Suicidal Intent Estimation” accepted at ECIR 2020.
• November 2019: Full paper titled ““Hindi-English Hate Speech Detection: Author Profiling, Debiasing, and Practical Perspectives” accepted at AAAI 2020.
• Aug 2019: Started my research internship at MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi.