Varun Kumar
About me
I am currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at InfoEdge India Ltd. (99acres.com) solving business problems such as lead scoring, recommendation and spam control in the space of real-estate.
Research Interests:
Classical Machine Learning, Computer Vision (Deep Learning), Neuroimaging
I received my M.S. by research in the field of Neuroimaging from Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in the year 2019. I worked with
Prof. Rahul Garg and investigated the alterations in functional connectivity in the brain of autistic individuals.
I received my M.Tech in IT with specialization in Robotics from Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad in the year 2014. Here I worked with Prof. G.C. Nandi and Dr. Rahul Kala on Static hand gesture recognition using Deep Learning as part of his Masters' thesis.
Before joining IIT Delhi, I worked as a Lecurer in Computer Science Department at BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
Before joining BITS I worked as a Lecturer in the department of Computer Science at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (AP-IIIT) R.K. Valley Andhra Pradesh. I was actively involved in Robotics club where I along with my students worked on computer vision for unmanned aerial vehicles.
I was also selected for Summer Research Fellowship Program at Multimedia Lab at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from May-July 2015 where I worked on depth estimation from a pair of stereo images using parallel convolutional neural networks.