Group

Students

• Arjun Majumdar, PhD student (2019 — Present)
• Joanne Truong, PhD student (2019 — Present); Co-advised with Sonia Chernova
  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  Google Women Techmakers Scholarship
  Adobe Research Fellowship
  Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship
• Andrew Szot, PhD student (2020 — Present); Co-advised with Zsolt Kira
• Naoki Yokoyama, PhD student (2020 — Present); Co-advised with Sehoon Ha
  ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship
  
• Ram Ramrakhya, PhD student (2023 — Present); Co-advised with Zsolt Kira
• Karmesh Yadav, PhD student (2023 — Present); Co-advised with Zsolt Kira

• Mukul Khanna, MS student (2022 — Present)
• Gunjan Chhablani, MS student (2022 — Present)

Visiting Students / Interns

Alumni

Former Research Scientists, Postdocs

• Stefan Lee, Postdoc 2016-17, Research Scientist 2017-19. Next position: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
  Outstanding Research Scientist Award, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
  DARPA Riser
• Peter Anderson, Research Scientist 2018-19. Next position: Research Scientist in Language and Vision at Google.
• Zhile Ren, Postdoc 2018-19. Next position: Applied Research Scientist, Apple.

Former PhD Students

• Harsh Agrawal, PhD 2023. Next position: Apple.
  Snap Inc. Research Fellowship PhD Thesis: Towards multi-modal AI systems with open-world cognition.
• Nirbhay Modhe, PhD 2022.
  PhD Thesis: Leveraging Value-awareness for Online and Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning.
• Erik Wijmans, PhD 2022. Co-advised with Irfan Essa. Next position: Apple.
  ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship
  PhD Thesis: Emergence of Intelligent Navigation Behavior in Embodied Agents from Massive-Scale Simulation.
  Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2023
  Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2023
• Ashwin Kalyan, PhD 2020. Next position: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).
  JP Morgan PhD Fellowship
  PhD Thesis: Improved search techniques for structured prediction.
• Abhishek Das, PhD 2020. Next position: Facebook AI Research.
  Facebook Fellowship
  Adobe Research Fellowship
  Snap Inc. Research Fellowship
  Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2021
  Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2021
  AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2020
  PhD Thesis: Building agents that can see, talk, and act.
• Michael Cogswell, PhD 2020. Next position: SRI.
  Bradley Fellowship
  PhD Thesis: Disentangling neural network representations for improved generalization.
• Yash Goyal, PhD 2020. Next position: Samsung AI Lab, Montreal.
• Aishwarya Agrawal, PhD 2019. Next position: Google DeepMind / University of Montreal (MILA).
  NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
  Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2020
  Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2020
  AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2019
  PhD Thesis: Visual Question Answering and Beyond.
• Qing Sun, PhD 2017. Next position: Facebook AI.
  PhD Thesis: Greedy Inference Algorithms for Structured and Neural Models.
• Gordon Christie, PhD 2016. Co-Advised with Kevin Kochersberger. Next position: Army Research Lab
  PhD Thesis: Collaborative Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicle Perception for Scene Understanding, Planning and GPS-denied Localization.

Former MS students, undergraduate advisees, and interns

• Harish Kamath, BS 2021 (next position: Scale.AI)
• Rishabh Jain, MS 2021 (next position: eBay)
The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship Award 2021
• Joel Ye, MS 2021 (next position: PhD student at CMU)
Donald V. Jackson Fellowship award for academic excellence and leadership, 2021
• Sameer Dharur, MS 2021 (next position: Apple)
• Deshraj Yadav, MS 2018 (next position: Tesla Autopilot)
Snap Inc. Research Scholarship, 2017
• Akrit Mohapatra, MS 2017 (next position: eBay)
• Aroma Mahendru, MS 2017 (next position: Bloomberg)
• Latha Pemula, MS 2016 (next position: Amazon)
• Harsh Agrawal, MS 2016 (next position: Snapchat Research)
• Prakriti Banik, MS 2015 (next position: Bloomberg)
• Neelima Chavali, MS 2015 (next position: Many Trees Inc)
• Clint Solomon, MS 2015 (next position: PhotoKharma)


• Yash Kant, Intern (next position: PhD student at University of Toronto)
• Rishabh Jain, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
• Sanyam Agrawal, Intern (next position: Google)
• Deshraj Yadav, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
• Tejas Khot, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
• Viraj Prabhu, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
• Ahmed Osman, Intern (next position: MS student at UCL)
• Khushi Gupta, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
• Ashwin Kalyan, Intern (next position: PhD student at GT)
• Abhishek Das, Intern (next position: PhD student at GT)
• Avi Singh, Intern (next position: PhD student at UC Berkeley)
• Faruk Ahmed, Intern (next position: PhD student at UMontreal)
• Senthil Purushwalkam, Intern (MS student at RI, CMU)
• Aroma Mahendru, Intern (next position: MS student at VT)
• Ratnesh Kumar, Intern (next position: MERL)
• Qi Lou, Intern (next position: PhD student at UC Irvine)
• Ankit Laddha, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
• Adarsh Prasad, Intern (next position: PhD student at UT-Austin)
• Harsh Agrawal, Intern (next position: MS student at VT)
• Abhimanyu Dubey, Intern (next position: PhD student at MIT)

Former Student Collaborators

• Payman Yadollahpour (PhD student from TTIC)
• Kun Duan (PhD student from Indiana U)
• Abner Guzman-Rivera (PhD student from UIUC)
• Daozheng Chen (PhD student from UMD)
• Jason Lew (MEng student at Cornell)
• Tanmay Verma (BTech student from IIIT-D)
• Charvi Puri (BTech student from IIIT-D)
• Kevin Tang (BS student at Cornell, now grad student at Stanford)