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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 interested in understanding the inner workings of deep neural networks and using this understanding to build trustworthy vision, language, and vision-language models.
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
- 10/2025: Invited talk (virtual) at Guide Labs, USA.
- 09/2025: One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025.
- 07/2025: Invited talk (virtual) at IIIT Summer School on AI, India.
- 06/2025: Started working as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon.
- 04/2025: Co-organizing the 2nd Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? (eXCV) Workshop at ICCV 2025.
- 02/2025: New preprint on transforming language models to be explainable.
- 01/2025: Co-organizing the 4th Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2025.
- 11/2024: Invited talk at the Symposium on Explainable Artificial Intelligence Beyond Simple Attributions, Mainz, Germany.
- 10/2024: One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
- 07/2024: Two papers accepted at ECCV 2024!
- 07/2024: Co-organizing the 1st Explainable Computer Vision: Where are We and Where are We Going? (eXCV) Workshop at ECCV 2024.
- 06/2024: Co-organizing the 3rd Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2024.
- 12/2023: One paper accepted at IEEE TPAMI.
- 11/2023: Selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023.
- 10/2023: Served as a Student Volunteer at ICCV 2023.
- 07/2023: One paper accepted at ICCV 2023.
- 07/2023: Joined the RTG Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action as an associated member.
- 05/2023: Selected as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2023.
Publications
Academic Activities
(Co-) Organizer
- 2nd Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? (eXCV) Workshop at ICCV 2025
- 4th Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2025
- 1st Explainable Computer Vision: Where are We and Where are We Going? (eXCV) Workshop at ECCV 2024
- 3rd Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2024
Reviewer
Conferences
- CVPR 2023-2025 (1x Outstanding Reviewer)
- NeurIPS 2023, 2025 (1x Top Reviewer)
- ECCV 2024
- ICML 2024-2025
- ICLR 2024
- ICCV 2023-2025
Journals
- IEEE TPAMI 2024
Workshops
- NeurIPS XAIA 2023
Miscellaneous
- Student Volunteer, ICCV 2023
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Saarland University)
- Explainable Machine Learning Seminar, October 2025 – March 2026
- 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
- Open-WBO-Inc-complete secured the 3rd position in the 60 seconds category in the incomplete weighted MaxSAT track at the MaxSAT Evaluation 2020.
- Open-WBO-Inc-BMO-satlike secured the 3rd position in the 60 seconds category and the 300 seconds category in the incomplete weighted MaxSAT track at the MaxSAT Evaluation 2019.
- Open-WBO-Inc-BMO secured the 1st position in the 60 seconds category and 2nd position in the 300 seconds category in the incomplete weighted MaxSAT track at the MaxSAT Evaluation 2018. Open-WBO-Inc-Cluster secured the 4th position in both these categories.
- The MIL team secured the 6th position out of 232 teams in the Visual Relationship Detection track of the Google AI Open Images Challenge. A poster on the method was presented at the Open Images Challenge Workshop at ECCV 2018.
Contact
- sukrut.rao@mpi-inf.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany