Aditya Arun

About Me

I am a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Adobe Media and Data Sceince Research (MDSR) Laboraotory, India. My general areas of interest are Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Currently, my research focuses on visual reasoning models and compositional generation using diffusion models.

I recieved my Ph.D. in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad under the joint supervision of Prof. C. V. Jawahar at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad, and Prof. M. Pawan Kumar at OVAL, University of Oxford and Deepmind. My doctoral research focused on weakly supervised learning approach for visual tasks, developing probabilistic methods that enable models to learn from limited or imprecise annotations while remaining robust and generalizable. See my PhD thesis. My Ph.D. was funded by Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship.

Beyond my research work, the topics that intrigue me include probabilistic machine learning, uncertainty quantification, learning from limited data, and discrete & combinatorial optimization.

I received my B.E. in Computer Science from BIT Mesra in 2013, where I was advised by Prof. Soumya Banerjee. From 2013-2014, I worked at IBM India as Associate System Engineer. I was also the co-founder and CTO at Drishyam.ai (acquired by MediaOcean) from 2018-2020 and an Senior Research Analyst and Advisor at Cognizer.ai from 2021-2022.

In my free time, I like to read books, play sports (cricket, table tennis, and running are my favorites), go on hikes, write short stories, and play guitar. Also, I was born and raised in Patna, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world!

News

• [Nov. 2025] Our paper about evaluating physics educational video is accepted to WACV 2026.
• [Oct. 2025] Two papers, which originated as fun summer projects, have been accepted for publication at ICVGIP 2025.
• [Jul. 2025] I joined Adobe MDSR lab as a Research Scientist.
• [Jun. 2025] I defended my PhD! My examining committee approved my thesis with no revisions! :)
• [May. 2025] I received outstanding reviewer award for CVPR 2025. :)

Awards

• Awarded outstanding reviewer award for CVPR 2025, 2021
• Awarded Google travel support for CVPR 2019
• Awarded Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship for PhD research and studies.
• Awarded IIIT Hyderabad Institute Fellowship for MS by Research (CSE) and PhD (CSE) research program.
• Awarded CSE Department Award for best final year project at BIT Mesra.
• Won 3rd prize (among 84 teams from across India) in Microsoft Garage Hackathon, 2017 for our project Daredevil - which brings human echolocation to the masses using a smartphone camera.

Publications

Services

Conference Reviewers

• CVPR, ICCV, ACCV, WACV, ICVGIP, NCVPRIPG

Journal Reviewers

• TPAMI, CVIU, TMM

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