About

From mangas to comic books to detective novels these things keep me glued all day long. A foodie and a Batman fanatic, I spend most of my leisure time reading about human evolution and anthropology. I am a second-year Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina Charlotte under the guidance of Dr.Depeng Xu and Dr.Cori Faklaris ,currently I am exploring how to mitigate biases in Text-To-Image Models. Previously, I was doing research in the area of multimodal understanding of LVLMs and semi-supervised object detction. I did my undergraduate in Kolkata from Future Institute of Engineering and Management where my thesis was in the area of character recognition in Devanagari and Bengali script under the guidance of Dr. Shibaprasad Sen. If you love playing FIFA and talking about research and comic books, do drop by in Woordward Hall 3rd Floor RM 312 ,UNC Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”- -Nelson Mandela

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📊 Interests

Computer Vision, Fairness in AI, Text-To-Image Models, Large Vision Language Models, Bias Mitigation, Interpretibility in GenAI

📚 Education

• Aug 2023-Present PhD in Computer Science @ University of North Carolina,Charlotte USA.
• 2021-2023 M.S in Computer Science @ Wayne State Univeristy, Detroit Michigan (INCOMPLETE- Transferred to UNCC)
• 2017-2021 B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering @ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Univeristy of Technology, India

🔬 Experience

Research experience

• May 2020-July 2020 Summer Research Intern @ Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
• July 2020- Aug 2020 Research Intern @ Jadavpur University,Kolkaata
• Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 Research Intern @ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Germany.
• Mar 2022 - Jul 2022 Student Research Assistant @ PURE LAB,Wayne State University,Detroit,USA
• Aug 2023-present Graduate Research Assistant @ University of North Carolina,Charlotte, USA

📝 Teaching experience

• Aug 2022- Dec 2022 Teaching Assistant for CSC 1100- Problem-Solving and Programming and CSC 2110- Computer Science I @ Wayne State University,Detroit,USA
• Jan 2023- May 2023 Teaching Assistant for CSC 7760- Deep Learning and CSC 5750- Principles of Web Technologies @ Wayne State University,Detroit,USA

🔍 Reviewer

• International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2024

⚙️ Volunteer

• IEEE IRI 2022 conference

Publications

• Google Scholar

💡 News

• A short version of LLAVDIAL got accepted in MAR workshop and VLM workshop in NeurIPS 2024!!
• Paper released 🔥 LLAVIDAL: Benchmarking Large Language Vision Models for Daily Activities of Living. Have a look at the website- LLAVIDAL
• Multiview Aerial Visual Recognition (MAVREC): Can Multi-view Improve Aerial Visual Perception? paper got accepted in CVPR 2024!! Check out the website for MAVREC. See you soon Seattle!

📐Organizer

• Seminar Organizer for ITSC 8699 -Graduate Resaerch Seminar @ University of North Carolina Charotte. (If you are willing to present your work you can contact me)

Contact

• rchakra6@charlotte.edu
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