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Academic CV of Sagar Verma
General Information
| Full Name | Sagar Verma |
| Languages | English, Hindi, French, German |
Education
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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
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2015-2017 M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi - Thesis: Action Recognition in Egocentric Videos
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2010-2014 B.Tech in Information Technology
National Institute of Technology Raipur - Thesis: Reinforcement Learning for Aerial Aerobatics
Experience
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2024 - Winner in ECCV Map-Free Challenge
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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
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2021 - Capital Innovator Grant from NGA, USA ($120,000)
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2020 - PI for U.S. AFRL and Space Dynamics Lab contract ($750,000)
- Techstars Boston Winter Founders Award ($120,000)
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2019 - Winner of Hyperspace Challenge by AFRL and IARPA
- CIFRE Scholarship by ANRT, France
- PRAIRIE Young Researcher Scholarship by Meta AI, France
Teaching Experience
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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
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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
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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
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Master's Students (Liverpool John Moores University)
- Aakaash Panigrahi (2023, EvalSports)
- Shubham Goswami (2023, Level AI)
- Nitin Bhojwani (2022, Clarifai)
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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
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Area Chair
- International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2021
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Reviewer
- NeurIPS (2022, 2023, 2024)
- ICML (2023, 2025)
- AAAI (2022, 2023, 2024)
- ICLR 2022, AISTATS 2023
- TCSVT (2020, 2021), CVIU 2020
Patents
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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
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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