Kartheek Akella Research Fellow
Centre for Visual Information Technology
IIIT Hyderabad
Email: sukruthkartheek [at] gmail.com
Research Interests
- Abstraction and Generalization
- Bayesian Deep Learning
- Machine Translation
Bio
I am a research fellow at IIIT Hyderabad, where I am jointly advised by Prof. C. V. Jawahar and Prof. Vinay P. Namboodiri at Center for Visual Information Technology. My research is focused on neural machine translation for low resource languages using low compute resources.
Prior to this, I have spent a brief time as a research assistant at Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR in Singapore working on the problem of dynamic analysis of benign programs, under the supervision of Dr. Sai Praveen Kadiyala.
I graduated from BITS Pilani, India, in 2020 with a B.E in Computer Science. During my undergraduate years I worked closely with Prof. Bhanumurthy and Prof. Aruna Malapati on projects related to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Telugu. I also worked with Prof. G Geethakumari on detecting RPL Attacks in Low Power and Lossy Networks (LLN).
Updates
| [5 May 2020] | Our Work - More Parameters? No Thanks! at CVIT, IIIT-H got accepted at Findings of ACL 2021. |
| [1 Dec 2020] | Our Work - Exploring Pair-Wise NMT for Indian Languages at CVIT, IIIT-H got accepted at ICON 2020. |
| [18 Nov 2020] | Our Work - Program Behavior Analysis and Clustering using Performance Counters done during my thesis at I2R, A*STAR got accepted at DYNAMICS Workshop part of ACSAC 2020. |
| [10 Nov 2020] | Started my YouTube channel on explaining ML and Deep Learning papers – Inspired by Yannic Kilcher. |
| [6 Nov 2020] | Our Work done during my thesis at I2R, A*STAR has been filed for an internal patent. |
| [18 Sep 2020] | Participated in Indic Multilingual Task in of Workshop on Asian Translation 2020 as team cvit. Produced close to SOTA results in four languages – Odiya (2nd), Malayalam (2nd), Telugu (3rd) and Tamil (3rd) |
| [1 Aug 2020] | Joined Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), IIIT Hyderabad as a research fellow under Prof. C V Jawahar. |
| [8 Jul 2020] | Submitted my undergraduate thesis at BITS Hyderabad. |
| [17 Feb 2020] | Joined Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR in Singapore as a research assistant under Dr. Sai Praveen Kadiyala. |
| [12 Dec 2019] | Accepted position as RA at Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR in Singapore. |
| [20 May 2019] | Joined as a “TA” for Deep Learning at WILP, BITS. |
| [21 May 2018] | Joined National Textile Corporation, Coimbatore as a Software Developer Intern. |
Teaching
| August 2020: | Teaching assistant (TA) in the course Deep Learning, WILP, BITS Pilani. |
| August 2019: | Teaching assistant (TA) in the course Feature Engineering, WILP, BITS Pilani. Course instructor: Prof. Aruna Malapati |
| May 2019: | Teaching assistant (TA) in the course Regression, WILP, BITS Pilani. Course instructor: Prof. N L Bhanumurthy |
Other Activity
- [2017 - 2019]: App Developer, DoTA, Department of Technical Arts, BITS.