About

Hi!, I’m Neelesh, an Masters student at the Stony Brook University, NY in the Department of Computer Science. My research interests primarily lies in Computer Vision and Adversarial ML. I have recently developed an interest in Diffusion Models and their applications - Image Segmentation, Object Detection, Shadow Removal, etc. In Adversarial ML, I enjoy working on crafting of physical and digital adversarial patches, their detection and removal. I am currently working under Prof. Haibin Ling as a graduate research assistant. We are working on detecting surface cracks using Diffusion models.

Education

Prior to my graduate studies, I completed my Bachelor of Technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I worked under Prof. P Balamurugan on Speech Denoising by leveraging feature losses as part of my undergraduate thesis. I also got an opportunity to work with Prof. Umesh Bellur on performance prediction of Apache Spark applications. I completed my bachelors in 2020, spent 2 years in industry and started my MS at Stony Brook University in Fall 2022.