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 Model Forgetting
Ankit Sharma (SMSS), advised by Prof. Manoj Thakur, co-advised by Dr. Parimala PhD Mathematical Analysis of Deep Models
Shubham, Joint PhD with IIT Ropar, Dr. Mudasir Ahmed Ganaie PhD Deep Learning Optimization
Siddharath Shakya MTech (R) Image and Video Compression
Kriti Khare MTech (R) Improving Diffusion Models using Continual Learning
Pallav Dwivedi MTech (R) DL Model Pruning
Siddhi Agarwal (SMSS)(Jointly with Dr. Sarita Azad) MTech (R) Improving Action Recoginition
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

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 Joining PhD at IIT Delhi Unified Model for Human Centric Tasks
Abhishek Dubey MTech (Regular) 2025 Placed at HCL Technologies, Noida Diffusion Based Image Compression
Florina Ramchiary MTech (Regular) 2025 Placed at Tata Advaced Systems, Bangalore Improving the latency of Diffusion Models

Funding

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