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Academic CV of Sagar Verma

General Information

Full Name Sagar Verma
Languages English, Hindi, French, German

Education

  • 2019-2023
    Ph.D. in Signal and Image Processing Sciences
    CentraleSupelec, Universite Paris-Saclay & Schneider Electric
    • Thesis: Deep Neural Network Modeling of Electric Motors
    • Advisor: Prof. Jean-Christophe Pesquet
  • 2015-2017
    M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
    • Thesis: Action Recognition in Egocentric Videos
  • 2010-2014
    B.Tech in Information Technology
    National Institute of Technology Raipur
    • Thesis: Reinforcement Learning for Aerial Aerobatics

Experience

  • 2025-Present
    Staff Computer Vision Engineer
    Deltia AI, Berlin, Germany
    • Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for manufacturing plant analysis
    • Building multimodal AI systems for industrial environments
  • 2020-2025
    CTO & Co-Founder
    Granular Data Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Principal Investigator (PI) for a $750K defense contract with U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
    • Secured $100K grant from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
    • Led development of GeoEngine, a first-of-its-kind geospatial AI platform
    • Managed 30-person cross-functional team across research, engineering, and operations
    • Published 18 peer-reviewed research papers
    • Filed two patents in automated property measurement and multi-view synthesis
  • 2018-2019
    Research Intern
    Schneider Electric & INRIA, Paris, France
    • Investigated neural networks for modeling electrical motor dynamics
    • Paper published in AAAI and successful ANRT CIFRE grant award
  • 2017-2018
    Junior Research Fellow
    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
    • Vision models for Human Pose, Shape, and Motion
    • Published papers on egocentric videos and fashion understanding

Grants, Funding & Awards

  • 2024
    • Winner in ECCV Map-Free Challenge
  • 2023
    • Google TPU Research Grant ($420,000)
    • Best Method in 1st Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) at WACV
    • CHABUD Most Innovative Solution Award at ECML-PKDD
  • 2021
    • Capital Innovator Grant from NGA, USA ($120,000)
  • 2020
    • PI for U.S. AFRL and Space Dynamics Lab contract ($750,000)
    • Techstars Boston Winter Founders Award ($120,000)
  • 2019
    • Winner of Hyperspace Challenge by AFRL and IARPA
    • CIFRE Scholarship by ANRT, France
    • PRAIRIE Young Researcher Scholarship by Meta AI, France

Teaching Experience

  • 2023
    Course Instructor
    CentraleSupelec
    • MVA-DL (3A-MDS-E2-DL): Created course content, assignments, and projects
    • Organized lab sessions with DeepMind, Meta AI, and Cohere AI
  • 2019-2023
    Teaching Assistant
    CentraleSupelec
    • Machine Learning (2EL1730), organized annual in-class Kaggle competitions
    • MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Machine Learning
    • Foundations of Machine Learning (DSBA-FML)
    • Introduction to Deep Learning
  • 2015-2017
    Teaching Assistant
    IIIT Delhi
    • Deep Learning (CSE641): First DL course at IIITD, set up initial cluster
    • Data Structures and Algorithms (CSE102)
    • Introduction to Programming (CSE101)

Mentorship

  • Master's Students (Liverpool John Moores University)
    • Aakaash Panigrahi (2023, EvalSports)
    • Shubham Goswami (2023, Level AI)
    • Nitin Bhojwani (2022, Clarifai)
  • Bachelor's Students (IIT Gandhinagar)
    • Muhammad Yusuf Hassan (2024, UMass Amherst)
    • Hitesh Jain (2024, Infilect AI)
    • Progyan Das (2024, Microsoft Research)
    • Siddhesh Kanawade (2024, Granular AI)
    • Shweta Pardeshi (2021, UC San Diego)
    • Kavita Vaishnaw (2021, Google)

Academic Service

  • Area Chair
    • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2021
  • Reviewer
    • NeurIPS (2022, 2023, 2024)
    • ICML (2023, 2025)
    • AAAI (2022, 2023, 2024)
    • ICLR 2022, AISTATS 2023
    • TCSVT (2020, 2021), CVIU 2020

Patents

  • 2024
    Method for Training a Model Able to Predict a Corrected Time Series Signal
    • EP4418165A1
    • Authors: S Verma, M Castella, JC Pesquet, N Henwood, AK Jebai
  • 2023
    Geospatial Intelligence Platform
    • Patent No: 2023081362
    • Authors: S Verma, S Gupta

Research Areas

  • Computer Vision
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Energy-Efficient Neural Networks
  • Optimization Techniques for Learning-Based Control Systems
  • Anthropomorphic Dexterous Systems

Skills

  • Languages: Python, C++, MATLAB
  • ML Frameworks: PyTorch, JAX
  • Web: FastAPI, ReactJS, NodeJS
  • Infrastructure: MongoDB, Kubernetes
  • Other: LaTeX, Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing