Short Bio
Vineeth N Balasubramanian is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India and a Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), India. He is the Founding Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT-H (2019-22), the first such across IITs in India. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, explainability and computer vision, with a recent focus on multimodal foundation models and reasoning. A Fellow of the INAE (2024) and INSA Associate Fellow (2024), he is a recipient of the National Teachers Award (conferred by the Hon’ble President of India, 2025), Research Excellence Award at IIT-H (2022), Google Research Scholar Award (2021), NASSCOM AI Gamechanger Award (2022), Teaching Excellence Awards at IIT-H (2017 and 2021), Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship (2022-23), among others. His research has been published at premier venues including ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV, AAAI, and IEEE TPAMI; he was the General Chair of ACML 2022, serves on the Editorial Board of IJCV and Pattern Recognition, and regularly serves in senior roles for top AI conferences.
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Address
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H)
Academic Block CS - 310
Kandi, Sangareddy 502 284
Telangana, INDIA
Phone: +91 40 2301 6357
Microsoft Research India
9 Lavelle Road, Ashok Nagar
Bengaluru 560001
Karnataka, INDIA
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