Suryansh Kumar
Assistant Professor in Visual Computing and Computational MediaCollege of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts- suryanshkumar@tamu.edu
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College Station, TX 77840
Education
- Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer ScienceAustralian National University, Canberra, Australia Awarded: December 2019. Thesis Panel: Yuchao Dai, Hongdong Li, Richard Hartley (FRS), 2019
- Master of Science in Computer Science and EngineeringIIIT-Hyderabad, India Awarded: July 2013. Thesis Advisor: K Madhava Krishna
Biography
Suryansh Kumar received his Ph.D. in engineering and computer science from the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, in December 2019. He completed his M.S. in computer science and engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), in 2013.
Before joining Texas A&M University, he completed his professorship in the field of Computer Vision at ETH Zürich under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Luc Van Gool. He also worked as a visiting scientist in the e-Motion Group at INRIA Rhône Alpes Grenoble. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers at the top-most venues in computer science. He regularly serves as a reviewer for CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, TPAMI and ICRA.
Kumar received the Best Algorithm Award in CVPR 2017 from Disney Research for his work on non-rigid 3D reconstruction. His Ph.D. thesis received a nomination for the J.G. Crawford Prize at ANU for Best Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Thesis for the year 2019. His research interests include computer vision, generative AI, robotics, machine learning and mathematical optimization.
Scholarly Interests
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Visual Computing
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Additional Affiliations
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Visual and Spatial AI Lab