About Me
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Robotics Perception and Learning Lab (RIPL), Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Zsolt Kira. My research focuses on theoretical machine learning and computer vision, with an emphasis on enhancing the adaptability and generalization capabilities of foundation models.
Prior to this, I completed a Masters by Research in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, where my thesis explored efficient and robust fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models. During my Master’s program, I also gained industry experience as a Computer Vision Research Intern at the Sony R&D Center, Switzerland (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024) and as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Science, Seattle (Summer 2023).
Before my time at Georgia Tech, I worked at Microsoft Research India (MSRI) under the supervision of Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan (Managing Director, MSRI), where I contributed to Project HyWay.
- Robustness
- Efficiency
- Distribution Shift
- Vision Language Models
- Diffusion Models
- Computer Vision
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2028
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's in Computer Science, 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.Tech. in Computer Science, 2020
Delhi Technological University
Recent News
- January 2025: Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- December 2024: Successfully defended my Masters thesis.
- Sept 2023: Started working as a Computer Vision Research Intern at Sony R&D Center, 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 (IMWUT).
- 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 University of Pennsylvania.
- June 2020: Started my research internship at IBM Research Lab, India.
- May 2024: Successfully defended my Bachelors thesis.
- 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.
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Contact
- You can reach me at shivangchopra11 [at] gatech [dot] edu
- CODA Building, S1106C, 11th Floor, 756 West Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332