Shruti Jain – MSCV Student
Shruti Jain is a graduate student in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University, with research interests spanning computer vision, Vision-Language Models, and autonomous systems, with work published at IROS 2024 and workshops at ICML and NeurIPS. She is broadly interested in building vision systems that operate reliably in real-world, out-of-distribution conditions, spanning autonomous vehicles, drones, and grounding and reasoning with VLMs.
Sarah Pendhari – MSCV Student
Sarah is an MSCV student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Advisor: Varun Kasireddy – Project Scientist at AirLab CMU
Varun Kasireddy is a Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University AirLab whose research focuses on foundation models for robotics, multimodal perception, and robust learning systems for novel domains and edge devices. His work spans cross-modal fusion of visual, LiDAR, and thermal sensing for infrastructure and aviation inspection, including defect detection using stereo, LiDAR-enhanced SfM, and active thermography. Previously a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct professor, he earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with research on automated spall defect detection in concrete bridges using point cloud data.
Faculty Mentor: Prof. John Galeotti
Dr. Galeotti is a Senior Systems Scientist and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, directing the Biomedical Image Guidance Laboratory and teaching an internationally recognized graduate course on medical image analysis algorithms. He has a Ph.D. in Robotics and a B.S. and M.S. in computer engineering.
Through his interdisciplinary research, collaborations, and teaching experience, he has been continually working to improve patient outcomes by improving the tools of science and medicine, with an emphasis on applying novel, real-time computer-controlled optics, image analysis, and visualization approaches to build and control unique experimental systems for image-guided interventions, diagnosis, and biomedical research.
The project is a part of the Darpa Triage Competition and the work is being done under CMU AirLab
