Prafful Kumar Khoba

Prafful was born and brought up in Delhi, India’s capital. He has a bachelor’s from Delhi Technological University, and a master’s from IIT Roorkee, both in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Before joining UQIDAR, he was an assistant research fellow, working with the vehicle mobility team in CVIT, IIIT-H, under the supervision of Dr. C.V. Jawahar and Dr. Ravi Kiran S.

Prafful has an inclination to choose a real-world problem that has a social impact. In his Master’s, he developed a machine that got appreciation from the Ministry of Education and won an InterCollege Innovation Competition. Also, he has filed a provisional patent for the same. His research interest is in the amalgamation of computer vision and machine learning. Many of today’s vision algorithms are very successful in controlled environments. Real-world environments, however, cannot be controlled and are most often dynamic. Since most computer vision algorithms are limited to a particular situation, they lack robustness in the context of dynamically changing environments. The need to develop algorithms that can generalize well in multiple domains is of utmost; therefore, my Ph.D. topic is domain generalization.

Since his sophomore year, Prafful has been interested in teaching his peers the subject which he relishes the most. His career aspiration is to become a professor since an academic career offers unique opportunities to mentor students through teaching and research advising. A decade down the lane, he see’s myself as a reputed researcher working in this field with the younger minds of coming years.