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General Information

Full Name Nishanth Shetty
Languages Kannada, English, Hindi, Japanese, German

Education

  • 2021-(2026)
    PhD Student
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    • Supervised by Prof. Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
    • Spectrum Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 2016-2020
    B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering
    PES University, Bangalore

Experience

  • 2018-2020
    Research Intern
    Centre for Intelligent Systems, PES University
    • Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning for Drone Navigation.
  • June-August 2018
    Intern
    Microsoft Innovation Labs
    • Generative Adversarial Networks for text-to-image generation.

Honours and Awards

  • 2026
    • Recognised as a Gold Reviewer for ICML 2026
    • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc
  • 2024
    • Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024
  • 2023
    • Gold medal in the Tennis men`s event at the Inter-IISER Sports Meet (IISM) 2023 at IISER Thiruvananthapuram
    • Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2023 (jointly with Nareddy Kartheek Kumar Reddy)
    • Prime Minister`s Research Fellowship
  • 2019
    • First Place in PES Mathematics Olympiad.

Academic Interests

  • Deep Generative Models
    • Score-based models, diffusion models, and sampling algorithms for high-dimensional distributions.
  • Computational Imaging
    • Inverse problems, reconstruction, and generative priors for imaging.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Tennis, Languages (日本語 and Deutsch), Running, Literature, Poetry (haiku & senryu), Philosophy, Coffee, Chess.