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S Divakar Bhat




AI Researcher currently residing in Tokyo, Japan

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👩🏼‍💻 Technical Experience

AI Researcher @ Honda R&D,Japan (Oct 2021 - present)
Works in the Computer Science Domain of the Innovative Research Excellence division.

  • Algorithm development and implementation of ADAS features
  • Technologies used: Python, C#, Unity, PyTorch.

Project Research Assistant @ VIPLAB-IITB (Aug 2018 - Jul 2021)
Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP Lab) is a research facility in the Electrical Engineering Department dedicated to Deep Learning, haptics, computer vision and image processing applications.

  • Research and implementation of novel techniques in incremental learning and co-segmentation.
  • Also served as Research Assistant under the DST project: India-Trento Program For Advanced Research (ITPAR) Phase-IV.
  • Worked on developing novel methodologies to improve learning continually in an efficient manner and by using lesser data.
  • Co-developed a novel method for co-segmentation using only small number of labelled samples along with a doctoral student.
  • Technologies used: Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Bash, Matlab, Latex, HTML, CSS.
  • Selected open-source work:

Web Developer @ C-MInDS (May 2020 - Aug 2020)
The centre is expected to to contribute towards the growing significance of the role of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science.

  • Built the website for the Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS) at IIT Bombay.
  • Continues to assist in the mantanance of the website if required.
  • Technologies used: Joomla, PHP, HTML, CSS.

🗞 Volunteering and Management Experience

Project In-Charge @ URJA-EMF (May 2016 - Feb 2017)
A project by Electrical Minds Forum of Model Engineering College Kochi, which aimed to provide basic electricity to selected houses in a tribal settlement in Kerala.

  • Development of the project outline and deliverables
  • Initial design of the proposed technology to be used.
  • Survey and feasibility study of the site.
  • Fund raising and publicity
  • Interaction with the technical support and supply company.
  • Selected articles:

Chairman Electrical Minds Forum @ EMF (Dec 2016 - Feb 2017)
Electrical Minds Forum - The Association of the Electrical Engineering Fraternity of Model Engineering College.

  • Planned executed multiple small and large scale technical events like talks, technical competitions, exhibitions, social outreach, etc.
  • Project in charge of the URJA project that provided basic elecitricity to selcted houses in a tribal settlement.
  • Planned and organized Vidyut Tarang an exhibition that spanned across 3 days.

Joint Secretary Excel 2016 @ Excelmec-2016 (Jan 2016 - Feb 2017)
Excel, the nation’s second and South India’s first ever fest of its kind started in 2001 by the students of Govt. Model Engineering College with a motto, Inspire, Innovate, Engineer.

  • A part of the 3 member Executive Committee of the Excel 2016 Core Team which comprised of a total of 21 specialist team members.
  • Active part of the planning, execution and overall functioning of multiple departments.
  • Directly involved in the planning, resource management, and organizing of Marketing, Workshops & Conferences, Social Initiatives, and General Tech departments along with the respective department heads.

🎤 Public Speaking

Aspiring to share my knowledge and inspire young minds. These are my baby steps to speak before a large audience someday

Recent Appearances

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📄 Publications

Journals

  • Bhat, S. Divakar, Biplab Banerjee, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Avik Bhattacharya. “CILEA-NET: A Curriculum-driven Incremental Learning Network for Remote Sensing Image Classification.” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2021). CILEA-NET

Conferences

  • Banerjee, Sayan, S. Divakar Bhat, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan. “Directed Variational Cross-encoder Network for Few-shot Multi-image Co-segmentation.” In 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 8431-8438. IEEE, 2021. FSMultiCoseg
  • Bhat, S. Divakar, Biplab Banerjee, and Subhasis Chaudhuri. “SemGIF: A Semantics Guided Incremental Few-shot Learning Framework with Generative Replay.” In 2021 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). SemGIF


🏆 Accomplishments

Best MTech Thesis Award @ EE Dept. IIT Bombay (Aug 2021)
Was awarded the Best M.Tech Thesis Award for my thesis titled, “You Never Stop Learning: Exploring Continual Learning in Visual Recognition”.

💬 Languages

English: Native
Hindi: Native
Malayalam: Native
Konkani: Native
Tamil: Limited Working Proficiency
Telugu: Elementary
Sanskrit: Limited Working Proficiency
Japanese: Elementary

👩🏼‍🎓 Education

Master of Technology in Control and Computing     CPI: 9.42
IIT Bombay - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (2018 - 2021)

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering     CPI: 8.76
Model Engineering College - Kochi, Kerala, India (2013 - 2017)