Welcome

I am a PhD student in the Computer Vision and Machine Learning group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in the Saarland Informatics Campus, supervised by Prof. Bernt Schiele. I am also an associated member of the RTG Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action. I am primarily interested in the explainability of deep networks in the context of computer vision: to develop techniques to understand decisions of black-box models, evaluate explanations for model-faithfulness, and to make models more interpretable.

I completed my PhD preparatory phase at the Max Planck Graduate Center for Computer and Information Science, during which I worked on improving adversarial robustness of image classifiers against adversarial patch attacks. I received my B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering with the President of India Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in August 2019. At IIT Hyderabad, I worked on projects for improving crowd-sourced vote aggregation supervised by Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian; and for developing state-of-the-art incomplete MaxSAT solvers with Prof. Saurabh Joshi and Prof. Ruben Martins. Within this period, I also worked as an intern in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory at The University of Tokyo under Prof. Tatsuya Harada on visual relationship detection, and at Bosch on classification of fundus images using deep learning.

News

Academic Activities

(Co-) Organizer


Reviewer

Conferences

  • CVPR 2023-2024 (1x Outstanding Reviewer)
  • NeurIPS 2023-2024 (1x Top Reviewer)
  • ECCV 2024
  • ICML 2024
  • ICLR 2024
  • ICCV 2023

Journals

  • IEEE TPAMI 2024

Workshops

  • NeurIPS XAIA 2023

Miscellaneous

  • Student Volunteer, ICCV 2023

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Saarland University)

  • High-Level Computer Vision, April 2024 – September 2024
  • High-Level Computer Vision, April 2023 – September 2023

Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship (IIT Hyderabad)

  • CS6510: Applied Machine Learning, January 2019 – April 2019
  • CS6230: Optimization Methods in Machine Learning, August 2018 – December 2018
  • CS3423: Compilers-II, August 2018 – December 2018
  • CS2433: Principles of Programming Languages-II, January 2018 – April 2018
  • CS2400: Principles of Programming Languages-I, October 2017 – December 2017

Awards

Academic Awards

  • Top Reviewer (∼ 10%) in NeurIPS 2023.
  • Outstanding Reviewer (∼ 3.3%) in CVPR 2023.
  • President of India Gold Medal 2019 from IIT Hyderabad.
  • Institute Silver Medal 2019 from IIT Hyderabad.
  • Appreciation in Research Award 2019 from IIT Hyderabad.
  • Honda Young Engineer and Scientist Award 2018 from Honda Foundation, Japan.
  • Academic Excellence Award 2018 from IIT Hyderabad.
  • Academic Excellence Award 2016 from IIT Hyderabad.
  • National Talent Search Scheme (NTS) Scholarship 2013 from National Council of Educational Research and Training, India.

Team Competitions

Contact

  • sukrut.rao@mpi-inf.mpg.de
  • Max Planck Institute for Informatics
    Saarland Informatics Campus
    Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany