Vineeth N Balasubramanian


Short Bio

Vineeth N Balasubramanian is a Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research 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 and computer vision, with recent focus on multimodal reasoning, verification, visual agents, concept-based learning, unlearning and continual learning. A Fellow of the INAE (2024) and INSA Associate Fellow (2024), he is a recipient of the National Teachers Award (presented 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. For more details, please see https:people.iith.ac.in/vineethnb.

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H)

Academic Block B - 314
Kandi, Sangareddy 502 284
Telangana, INDIA
Phone: +91 40 2301 6357

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