Research Group

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Welcome to our research group at IIT Mandi. As part of the MANAS Lab, we focus on fundamental research in deep learning, with a particular emphasis on generative modeling and multimedia compression.

Current Students

Student (Department) Degree Area of Research
Reshu Bansal PhD Improving the Robustness of Deep Models
Mridul Sharma PhD Training Free Machine Unlearning
Shubham, Joint PhD with IIT Ropar, Dr. Mudasir Ahmed Ganaie PhD Deep Learning Optimization
Satish Maurya MTech (R) Continual Learning for Multimedia Quality Assessment
Ajinkya Prakash Hase MTech (R) Improving Image Restoration
Deepanshi Sharma MTech (R) Quantization and Deep Cache for Deep Generative Models
Yashasvi Pundir MTech (R) Synthetic Data Generative Model for Finance Applications
Adarsh Dubey MTech (R) Machine Unlearning

Alumni

Student Degree Year Current Location Thesis Title
Shubham Patwar (CSP) MTech (Regular) 2024 Data Scientist, Medinno Systems Compressive Domain Analytics
Vaibhav Sharma MTech (Regular) 2025 PhD Student at IIT Delhi Unified Model for Human Centric Tasks
Abhishek Dubey MTech (Regular) 2025 Technical Lead, HCL Technologies, Noida Diffusion Based Image Compression
Florina Ramchiary MTech (Regular) 2025 PGT, Tata Advaced Systems, Bangalore Improving the latency of Diffusion Models
Siddhi Agarwal (SMSS) MTech (R) 2026 IBM, Pune Improving Action Recoginition
Kriti Khare MTech (R) 2026 Poonawalla Finance, Pune Improving Diffusion Models using Continual Learning
Pallav Dwivedi MTech (R) 2026 Jio Hotstar, Bangalore Model Pruning
Siddharath Shakya MTech (R) 2026 HCL Technologies, Noida Image and Video Compression

Funding

We are grateful to the following funding agencies and corporations for supporting our current and past work:TCS,MHRD,ANRF and Vehant Technologies.