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Neerja Thakkar
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Hello! I’m a PhD student in BAIR at UC Berkeley, advised by Jitendra Malik. I am interested in computer vision, with my research primarily focusing on understanding and predicting behavior in videos. I am supported by a Chancellor’s Fellowship from Berkeley and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
I did my undergrad at Dartmouth, where I worked with Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Wojciech Jarosz, and Neel Joshi at Microsoft Research. From 2019-2020, I was a visiting student at the University of Zaragoza’s Graphics and Imaging Lab on a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Spain.
Interests
- Computer Vision
- Behavior Forecasting
- Video Understanding
- Vision for Robotics
Education
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PhD in EECS, 2025 (expected)
UC Berkeley
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BA in Computer Science and Mathematics, 2019
Dartmouth College
Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2018 –
Aug 2018
Seattle
Interned on the integrity computer vision team. Optimized deep convolutional neural networks by implementing pruning algorithms.
MIT Press Intern for Introduction to Algorithms
MIT Press
Mar 2018 –
Jun 2018
Worked with Thomas Cormen on writing solutions for the instructors manual for the 4th edition of Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein.
Computer Science Teaching Assistant
Dartmouth College CS Department
Mar 2016 –
Mar 2019
Hanover, NH
Served as a teaching assistant for:
- CS1 Introduction to Programming and Computation
- CS11 Foundations of Applied Computing
- CS30 Discrete Math for Computer Science
Honors and Awards
Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation
2021
Fellowship that provides three years of financial support
Chancellor’s Fellowship
UC Berkeley
2020
Two-year university fellowship
EECS Excellence Award
UC Berkeley EECS Department
2020
Selected by UC Berkeley EECS faculty, based on academic record
Fulbright Research Scholarship to Spain
Fulbright
2019
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, High Honors in Computer Science major
Dartmouth College
2019
Honors upon graduation from Dartmouth College
Hannah T. Croasdale Award
Dartmouth College
2019
Given to the person who has made the most significant contribution to the quality of life for women at Dartmouth
Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention
Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship
Adobe Research
2018
Recognizes outstanding undergraduate female students anywhere in the world who are studying computer science, awarded to 10 women internationally, award includes $10,000 and research mentor
Citations for Meritorious Performance
Dartmouth College
2016
– 2018
In Computer Graphics (2018), Software Design and Implementation (2017), and First-Year Writing Seminar (2016)
Research
Poly-Autoregressive Prediction for Modeling Interactions
Neerja Thakkar, Tara Sadjadpour, Andrea Bajcsy, Jathushan Rajasegeran, Shiry Ginosar, Jitendra Malik. Poly-Autoregressive Prediction for Modeling Interactions, CVPR 2025.
Adaptive Human Trajectory Prediction via Latent Corridors
Neerja Thakkar, Karttikeya Mangalam, Andrea Bajcsy, Jitendra Malik. Adaptive Human Trajectory Prediction via Latent Corridors, ECCV 2024.
Studying Bias in GANs Through the Lens of Race
Vongani Maluleke*, Neerja Thakkar*, Tim Brooks, Ethan Weber, Trevor Darrell, Alexei Efros, Angjoo Kanazawa, Devin Guillory. A Study of Bias in GANs Through the Lens of Race, ECCV 2022
The Reliability of Forensic Body-Shape Identification
Neerja Thakkar, Georgios Pavlakos, Hany Farid, Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR, 2022
On the Feasibility of 3D Model-Based Forensic Height and Weight Estimation
Neerja Thakkar and Hany Farid, Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR, 2021
Contact
- nthakkar - at - berkeley.edu