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Gaurav Kumar Nayak
Assistant Professor
gauravkumar.nayak[at]mfs.iitr.ac.in
First Floor, Mehta School of DS & AI, IIT Roorkee
01332-285516
https://sites.google.com/view/gauravnayak/
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Educational Details
Professional Background

Research
Projects
Publications
Patents
Books
Collaborations

Honours and Awards
Honors
Memberships

Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements

Students
Supervisions
Associate Scholars

Miscellaneous
Events
Visits
Administrative Positions
Miscellaneous
Research Interests
Data-efficient Deep Learning, Generative AI - Diffusion models and LLMs, Deep Learning for Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Knowledge Distillation, Adversarial Robustness, Domain Adaptation, Continual Learning, Geo-localization, Federated Learning
BioSketch
Educational Details
Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore)
2022
Ph.D., Data-efficient Deep Learning
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, New Delhi)
2017
M. Tech, Computer Science
Vellore Institue of Technology (VIT, Vellore)
2013
B. Tech, Computer Science
Professional Background
Assistant Professor
15 Apr 2024 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Postdoctoral Scholar
16 Jan 2023 - 15 Mar 2024
University of Central Florida
Research Associate
01 Aug 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
Indian Institute of Science
Software Engineer, Developer
17 Jun 2013 - 14 Oct 2014
MyGuestHouse Accommodations Pvt. Ltd
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Geospatial Foundation Model using AI and ML 11 Nov 2024 Geo-localization, Generative AI 50 Lacs Graylark Technologies, Inc., United States Of America
Dataset Distillation in Videos 14 Aug 2023 Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning 100,000 USD. Cisco Research, United States Of America Dr. Mubarak Shah




Publications
CityGuessr: City-Level Video Geo-Localization on a Global Scale
2024
Parth Parag Kulkarni, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Mubarak Shah | European Computer Vision Association
Journal: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Generalized deep learning model for photovoltaic module segmentation from satellite and aerial imagery
2024
Gustavo Garcı́a, Alejandro Aparcedo, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Tanvir Ahmed, Mubarak Shah, and Mengjie Li | Springer
Journal: Solar Energy
Data-free Defense of Black Box Models against Adversarial Attacks
2024
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Inder Khatri, Ruchit Rawal, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW) on Fair, Data-efficient, and Trusted Computer Vision
Robust Few-Shot Learning without using any Adversarial Sample
2024
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ruchit Rawal, Inder Khatri, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
Minimizing Layerwise Activation Norm Improves Generalization in Federated Learning
2024
M Yashwanth, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Harsh Rangwani, Arya Singh, R. Venkatesh Babu, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization
2023
Vicente Vivanco Cepeda, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Mubarak Shah | The MIT Press
Journal: Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
DE-CROP: Data-efficient Certified Robustness for Pretrained Classifiers
2023
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ruchit Rawal, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
DISBELIEVE: Distance Between Client Models is Very Essential for Effective Local Model Poisoning Attacks
2023
Indu Joshi, Priyank Upadhya, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Peter Schüffler, and Nassir Navab | Springer
Journal: MICCAI Workshop on Distributed, Collaborative and Federated Learning (DeCaF)
Holistic Approach to Measure Sample-level Adversarial Vulnerability and its Utility in Building Trustworthy Systems
2022
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ruchit Rawal, Rohit Lal, Himanshu Patil, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW) on Human-centered Intelligent Services Safety and Trustworthy (HCIS)
DAD: Data-free Adversarial Defense at Test Time
2022
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ruchit Rawal, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Mining Data Impressions from Deep Models as Substitute for the Unavailable Training Data
2021
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Saksham Jain, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Effectiveness of Arbitrary Transfer Sets for Data-free Knowledge Distillation
2021
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Konda Reddy Mopuri, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE/CVF
Journal: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Beyond Classification: Knowledge Distillation using Multi-Object Impressions
2021
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Monish Keswani, Sharan Seshadri, and Anirban Chakraborty | The British Machine Vision Association
Journal: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
Incremental Learning for Animal Pose Estimation using RBF k-DPP
2021
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Het Shah, and Anirban Chakraborty | The British Machine Vision Association
Journal: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
DeGAN: Data-enriching GAN for retrieving representative samples from a trained classifier
2020
Sravanti Addepalli, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Anirban Chakraborty, and R. Venkatesh Babu | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - MIT Press
Journal: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Fusion of Deep and Non-Deep Methods for Fast Super-Resolution of Satellite Images
2020
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Saksham Jain, R. Venkatesh Babu, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM)
Zero-Shot Knowledge Distillation in Deep Networks
2019
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Vaisakh Shaj, R. Venkatesh Babu, and Anirban Chakraborty | Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Journal: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Efficient Person Re-identification in videos using Sequence Lazy Greedy Determinantal Point Process (SLGDPP)
2019
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Utkarsh Shreemali, R Venkatesh Babu, and Anirban Chakraborty | IEEE
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Development and comparative analysis of fuzzy inference systems for predicting customer buying behavior
2013
Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Swathi J Narayanan, Ilango Paramasivam | IJET
Journal: International Journal of Engineering and Technology
Books
Book Chapter: Classification of Normal Versus Malignant Cells in B-ALL White Blood Cancer Microscopic Images
Year: 2019 ,
Atmika Honnalgere, and Gaurav Kumar Nayak | ISBI C-NMC Challenge: Classification in Cancer Cell Imaging, Springer
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Statistical Learning Theory ( DA-305 )
Autumn
Technical Communication ( DA-391 )
Autumn
Advanced Computer Vision (UCF, USA) - Visual Language Models - Course Instructor w/ Prof. Mubarak Shah (Jan 2024- Mar 2024) ( CAP-6412 )
Spring
Advanced Computer Vision (UCF, USA) (Diffusion Models) - Course Observer (Jan 2023 - Apr 2023) ( CAP-6412 )
Spring
Video Analytics (IISc, Bangalore) - Teaching Assistant (Aug 2019- Dec 2019) ( DS-263 )
Autumn
Data Analytics and Visualizations (IISc, Bangalore) - Teaching Assistant (Jan 2019- Apr 2019) ( DS-294 )
Spring
Students
SuperVisions
Biasness in LLMs
11 Jul 2024 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Arti Rani
Video-Text Person ReID
01 Aug 2024 - 31 Jul 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Tanvi
Miscellaneous
Visits
New Orleans, United States Of America
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023
Washington D.C., United States Of America
BRIAR Project Site Visit
Orlando, United States Of America
PostDoc (University of Central Florida)
Taipei, Taiwan
2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
Administrative Positions
Memeber of ScRC and ScAPC Committee
25 Apr 2024 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Chair IEEE-IISc joint student chapter (Computational Intelligence and Computer Society)
20 Mar 2019 - 10 Mar 2021
IISc, Bangalore
Student Coordinator
14 Feb 2018 - 15 Feb 2019
IISc Open Day
Student Coordinator
05 Sep 2016 - Present
International Conference (VLDB)
Invited Talks
  • Delivered an expert lecture on “Data-efficient AI in Worldwide Geo-localization and Knowledge Distillation” in the five-day short-term course on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Engineering Applications (AIMLEA-2024) organized by NIT Kurukshetra [Certificate]
  • Delivered an online lecture on "Logistic Regression" at Intellipaat in 2024
  • Delivered a Guest Lecture in Deep Learning for Computer Vision course (at IISc, Bangalore) on "Data-efficient Deep Learning in Computer Vision'' in 2024
  • Presented "AgroAI'' Start-up Proposal at UCF Technology Ventures Symposium 2023 [Weblink]
  • Presented our NeurIPS 2023 work to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) [Slides]
  • Delivered a Guest Lecture in Data Analysis and Visualization course (at IISc, Bangalore) on “Principle Component Analysis” in 2022 [Slides]
  • Delivered a Guest Lecture in Deep Learning for Computer Vision course (at IISc, Bangalore) on “Deep Learning in the absence of Training Data” in 2022 [Slides]
  • Delivered a keynote talk on “Data-Free Knowledge Distillation in Deep Networks” in Manav Rachna University in 2021 [Momento] [Certificate]
  • Presented our work “Zero-Shot Knowledge Distillation” paper in a session on “VISION INDIA” of NCVPRIPG 2019 [Slides]