Priyatham Kattakinda

About

I am a 4^th year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I work with Prof. Soheil Feizi.

My primary research interests are in distributional robustness and multimodal learning. But, I love working on generalized algorithms that can solve a wide variety of problems.

Here's my Google Scholar profile and here's my CV.

Timeline

2020 - Present

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

2018 - 2020

M.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

For my Master's thesis, I worked on image denoising with Prof. A. N. Rajagopalan. In the summer of 2019, I did an internship with KLA where I worked on super-resolution of SEM images.

2016 - 2018

Co-Founder, Tessact

At Tessact, our mission was to bring the latest advancements in Deep Learning to the media industry. Specifically, we developed software for scalable and accurate frame-by-frame video annotation. This is the first and, arguably, the hardest step in automating the process of serving contextual advertisements and meeting compliance standards.

2012 - 2016

B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Here, I had my first exposure to the wonderful world of Computer Vision, in the courses taught by Prof. Ajit Rajwade.

Publications

FOCUS: Familiar Objects in Common and Uncommon Settings

Priyatham Kattakinda, Soheil Feizi

Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022

Paper Code Dataset
Unpaired Image Denoising

Priyatham Kattakinda, A. N. Rajagopalan

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), UAE (Virtual), October 2020

Paper Code Presentation Project Page

Preprints

Fast Adversarial Attacks on Language Models In One GPU Minute

Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Shoumik Saha, Gaurang Sriramanan, Priyatham Kattakinda, Atoosa Chegini, Soheil Feizi

Paper
Invariant Learning via Diffusion Dreamed Distribution Shifts

Priyatham Kattakinda, Alexander Levine, Soheil Feizi

Paper

Accomplishments

Outstanding Graduate Student Award December 2023

The award conveys the honor of being recognized as among the top 2% of campus Graduate Assistants at the University of Maryland in a given year.
Siemens Prize September 2020

Awarded to the M. Tech student with the best academic record in Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras.
Prof. M K Achuthan Prize April 2020

Awarded to the M. Tech student with the best academic record in the first year in Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras.
All India Rank 80 in IIT-JEEJune 2012

Secured 80^th rank (~ 470 000 total candidates, 99.98^th percentile) in the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the IITs in 2012.

Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses:

University of Maryland, College Park

ENEE324: Engineering Probability Fall 2021
ENEE440: Microprocessors Spring 2021

IIT Madras

EE5175: Image Signal Processing Spring 2020
EE6133: Multirate Digital Signal Processing Fall 2019
EE3110: Probability Foundations for Electrical Engineers Spring 2019

In addition to the above, I adapted the assignments of Image Signal Processing for the NPTEL course (NPTEL is a MOOC platform developed jointly by the IITs and IISc) taught by Prof. A. N. Rajagopalan.

Outside of Work...

I am into badminton and Dota 2. I am also an amateur photographer (check out my Instagram) and web developer; this website is a showcase of my budding skills.

Although it's hard for me to find the time these days, I enjoy watching sci-fi/fantasy movies, TV shows.