Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla

Hi, I'm Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Machine Learning and Vision Group supervised by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH).

Before joining IITH, I have worked at Toshiba R&D, Bangalore. I did my M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT TP) specialized in Signal Processing and Communications and have worked under Dr.RamaKrishna Gorthi

Research Interests: Multimodal MLLMs, Vision-language Models, Fine-Grained Visual Recognition, Continual Learning, Zero-shot Learning, Long-Tail Learning, Limited Supervision

Affiliations

Academic

Ph.D. (PMRF Fellow) [Sept'20 - Sept'24]

Dept of AI, IIT Hyderabad

M.Tech (Signal Processing and Communications) [Sept'18 - Jun'20]

Dept of EE, IIT Tirupati

B.Tech (Electronics and Communications) [Sept'13 - Jun'17]

Dept of ECE, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology

Industry

Research Intern [May'22 - Sep'22]

CognitiveML Team

Associate Research Engineer [Jul'20 - Aug'20]

R &D Division, Toshiba

Publications:

Journals

Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Sai Srinivas Kancheti, Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, "Efficient Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Visual Recognition in the Age of Multimodal LLMs" Accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) in August 2025.
Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Sai Srinivas Kancheti, Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, "Semantic Alignment for Prompt Tuning in Vision Language Models" Accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) in January 2025.
Mohana Murali Dasari, Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Aravind Rajiv, Rama Krishna Gorthi, I-VITAL: Information aided visual tracking with adversarial learning, Displays

Conferences

Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Sumitra M, Shivam Chandhok, V. Balasubramanian, Unseen Classes at a Later Time? No Problem, Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’22), Jun 2022

Workshops

Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, A Gowtham Reddy, Sai Srinivas K, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Fine-Grained Visual Recognition in the Age of Multimodal LLMs, Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models: Evolving AI for Personalized and Efficient Learning, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPSW’24), Dec 2024
Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla*, Sai Srinivas Kancheti*, Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, "Can Better Text Semantics in Prompt Tuning Improve VLM Generalization?" Accepted at What is Next in Multimodal Foundation Models? Workshop in conjunction with the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW'24) Conference 2024. (*=equal authorship)
Matej Kristan, Ales Leonardis, Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla et al. "The Eighth Visual Object Tracking VOT2020 Challenge Results”, In Proceedings: European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCVW'20) 2020, Visual Object Tracking Workshops.

Professional Activities:

Reviewer: IJCV, AAAI 2026, WACV 2026, ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, ECCV 2024, CVPR 2024, AAAI 2024, WACV 2024, ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023, ECCV 2022, ACCV 2022

Sub Reviewer: TPAMI, NeurIPS 2024, IJCAI 2023, WACV 2022, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, BMVC 2021

Awards

Honoured to receive the Excellence in Research award in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IITH.

Teaching and Mentoring

@ IIIT Hyderabad

Conducted an in-person hands-on session on "Multimodality" at IIIT Summer School Series 2024.

@ IIT Hyderabad

Aug'23 - Dec'23 AI3000/CS5500 Reinforcement Learning
Jan'23 - May'23 CS5480 Deep Learning
Aug'22 - Dec'22 AI3000/CS5500 Reinforcement Learning
Jan'22 - May'22 CS5480 Deep Learning
May'21 - Oct'21 NPTEL course on Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Nov'20 - Dec'20 AI1001: Introduction to Modern AI

@ IIT Tirupati

Jul'19 - Dec'19 Advanced Digital Signal Processing Lab
Jan'20 - May'20 Image Processing Lab

PMRF Teaching Activities

Jan'23 - Till now Deep Learning-based projects @ BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women.
Jul'22 - Dec'22 Deep Learning @ BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women.
Jan'22 - Jul'22 Introduction to Machine Learning @ BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women.
Oct'21 - Dec'21 Introduction to Machine Learning @ BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women.
Jan'21 - Jul'21 Introduction to Machine Learning @ Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology.

Invited Talks

Honoured to be invited to present our CVPR 2022 paper "Unseen Classes at a Later Time? No Problem" at ACM ARCS 2023 held on Feb 09-10,2023 at Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, Bhopal.
Honored to be invited to present our CVPR 2022 paper "Unseen Classes at a Later Time? No Problem" at Vision India, ICVGIP 2022 held on Dec 08, 2022, at IIT Gandhinagar.
Delivered a talk on "Machine Learning and it's Scope" at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology in November, 2021
Delivered a talk on "Buzz around Machine Learning" at B V Raju Institute of Technology, Narsapur in December 2021.

Contact: <harichandana1102@gmail.com>,<ai20resch11006@iith.ac.in>

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