Vinu Sankar Sadasivan
CS PhD student
UMD, College Park
ude.dmu@univ
I am a third-year computer Science PhD student at The University of Maryland, College Park working with Prof. Soheil Feizi. I am a recipient of the Kulkarni Fellowship 2023. My research interest lies in the area of Security and Privacy in AI. Recently, I have been working on the hardness of AI-content detection. I also like to think about AI privacy problems that span differential privacy, machine unlearning, unlearnable datasets, and privacy attacks.
I received the prestigious Director’s Silver Medal and my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering in 2020 from IIT Gandhinagar. I was a Junior Research Fellow with Prof. Anirban Dasgupta at IIT Gandhinagar, India in the Data Science Lab. Previously, I had interned at Caltech, Microsoft Research India, and IISc.
[Nov 2023] Gave a research talk at Google Research on our work on AI-text detection.
[Oct 2023] Our work on limitations of AI-image detectors is featured in Wired!
[Jun 2023] I am awarded the Kulkarni Summer Research Fellowship for 2023!
[Jun 2023] Interviewed by New Scientist for a work on model collapse.
[Jun 2023] Our work on hardness of AI-detectors is featured in Washington Post!
[Apr 2023] Recognized as notable reviewer at ICLR 2023.
[Mar 2023] Our work on hardness of AI-detectors is featured in New Scientist!
[Mar 2023] Our work on hardness of AI-detectors is featured in The Register!
[Mar 2023] CUDA is on arXiv.
[Feb 2023] CUDA accepted at CVPR 2023.
[Nov 2022] Reviewer for ICLR 2023.
[Jul 2022] Reviewer for NeurIPS 2022.
[Aug 2021] Excited to join UMD CS for my PhD.
[Jun 2021] Curriculum learning work accepted (spotlight) at SubSetML, ICML 2021.
[Feb 2021] Curriculum learning work preprint now available on arXiv.
[Feb 2021] Reviewer for ICML 2021.
[Sep 2020] Received cash award for CS publication from IIT Gandhinagar.
[Aug 2020] Started working as JRF at IIT Gandhinagar.
[Aug 2020] Received the Director's Silver Medal and B.Tech in CSE.
[Sep 2019] Special mention for poster at UGRC 2019 at IIT Gandhinagar for work at Caltech.
[Sep 2019] Work on Shallow RNN accepted at NeurIPS 2019.
[May 2019] Started working as undergraduate research fellow at Caltech.
[Feb 2019] Work on endoscopy abnormality classification accepted at IEEE ISBI 2019.
[Jan 2019] Started working as research intern at MSR India.
[Nov 2018] Received Caltech's SURF for summer 2019.
[May 2017] Started working as research intern at IISc Bangalore.
I come from the beautiful town Kollam in Kerala. In my free time, I love to sing and play the ukulele and guitar. Check out my YouTube and Instagram pages for my musical covers. I also love playing badminton, soccer, ultimate frisbee, and cricket.
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