I'm a student at Stanford University, interested in applying my background in computer vision and machine learning to industry.
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Backend Systems Development
Natural Language Processing
Compilers & Languages
Mail: vineetsk1 [at] gmail [dot] com
Mail: vineetk [at] stanford [dot] edu
Phone: (408) - 203 - 0560
Addr: 12501 Northampton Ct., Saratoga, CA, 95070
© Vineet Kosaraju, 2018
Publications
SoPhie: An Attentive GAN for Predicting Paths Compliant to Social and Physical Constraints
Accepted to CVPR 2019, one of two primary authors. Research conducted in the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL), under Prof. Silvio Savarese's guidance in the Jackrabbot robotics team. Developed novel architecture combining attention modules on social and physical features to generate trajectories. Pre-print paper can be found
here.
Vision
Attention
Recurrence
Generative Modeling
Structural Point Cloud Decoder
Accepted to CVPR 2019, third author. Research conducted in the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL), under Prof. Silvio Savarese's guidance in the 3D vision team. Focused on a new point cloud decoder that learns arbitrary topologies. Pre-print paper coming soon.
Vision
Point Clouds
Principles for Predicting RNA Secondary Structure Design Difficulty
Published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, one of four primary authors. Research conducted in Prof. Rhiju Das's lab in the Stanford School of Medicine. Funded by SIMR. Paper at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26902426.
Biology
Organized Workshops
The First Workshop on Joint Detection, Tracking, and Prediction in the Wild
Organized workshop hosted in CVPR 2018 for an algorithms challenge centered around trajectory forecasting. The challenge, TrajNet, can be found at
trajnet.stanford.edu. Workshop link
here.
Vision
Workshop
Current Research Interests
3D Scene Reconstruction from RGBD Input
Vision
Point Clouds
Sophie Extension Through Graph Attention Networks
Vision
Attention
Recurrence
Generative Modeling
Point Cloud Benchmark
Vision
Point Clouds
Benchmark
(Unpublished) Research Projects
Faster Transformers for Document Summarization
In progress. Focuses on developing faster transformers for the task of large-document summarization using two proposed improvements: convolutional encoders, and strided neighborhood attention layers. Conducted as a research project for CS224N (Deep Natural Language Processing) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Natural Language
Attention
Recurrence
Poverty Prediction from Learned Satellite Representations through Generative Modeling
Develops a generative model for predicting poverty from daytime satellite images of a region. Focuses on learning representations of satellite images and transferring these representations to other domains. Conducted as a research project for CS236 (Deep Generative Modeling) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Vision
Generative Modeling
A Deep Learning Solution for Blood Diagnostics of Cancers through Error Suppression
Improves the accuracy of error classification techniques during genome sequencing using features learned from a recurrent embedding. Conducted as a research project for CS230 (Deep Learning) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Machine Learning
Recurrence
Biology
MRNGAN: Reconstructing 3D MRIs Using a Recurrent Generative Model
Develops a novel architecture to reconstruct a 3D MRI across multiple slices using a single slice as input. Learns translations between consecutive image slices. Conducted as a research project for CS231N (Convolutional Neural Networks) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Vision
Recurrence
Generative Modeling
Biology
Recurrent Phrase Vectors: Utilizing Recurrence in Word Embeddings
Attempts to improve a baseline word embedding by utilizing recurrence in groups of words. Conducted as a research project for CS224U (Natural Language Understanding) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Natural Language
Recurrence
Applying ML to Construct a Gambling MDP for the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Develops a gambling agent for the Stanley Cup Playoffs by training a game winner classifier using historical game data and modeling a multi-state Markov Decision Process. Conducted as a research project for CS229 (Machine Learning) and CS221 (Artificial Intelligence) with two other student researchers. Paper can be found
here.
Machine Learning
Rational RNA Riboswitch Design through a Massive Open Laboratory
Introduces a novel algorithm, combining machine learning and crowdsourcing, to design RNA riboswitches that are stable
in silico and
in vitro. Research project selected as 1 of 300 nationally for the Intel Science Talent Search. Paper can be found
here.
Machine LearningBiology
Towards Rational 3D RNA Therapeutics: 3D RNA Engineering in a Massive Open Laboratory
Develops a new crowdsourcing interface, Eterna3D, to allow for the design of atomically precise 3D RNA folds. Crowdsourced molecules were experimentally synthesized and shown to achieve the required design targets. Paper can be found
here.
Biology