Prof. Abhijit Das,  PhD

Assistant professor
Room H112,
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems,  BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
Contact no: +914066303744 (O)

He is currently working as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani Hyderabad. Previously, he has worked  assitant professor at Thapar University, visiting scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, as a researcher at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute, as a Post-Doc Researcher at Inria Sophia Antipolis– Méditerranée, France and as a Research Administrator at the Faculty of Software Engineering & IT at University Technology of Sydney (UTS), Australia. Prior to his PhD, he has worked as an Associate Software Engineer at IBM India Pvt Ltd. and as a Lecturer at distinguished universities. He has completed his PhD from the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Australia. He is an accomplished machine learning and computer vision researcher with more than 10 years of research and teaching experience, presently pursuing an investigation on learning representations and human analysis employing facial and corporeal-based visual features.

During his research career, he has published several scientific articles in conferences, journals and a book chapter and has also received several awards from the IEEE, and other scientific organisations. Dr Das is involved in organising scientific events such as international conferences, workshops, competitions and special sessions at conferences, and has served as a guest editor for special issues, technical program committee member for several reputed international conferences and reviewer of top-ranking journals. He is also the winner of the IBM research sponsored ECCV 2018 BEFA competition.

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