Avigyan is currently pursuing a Master’s in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University after graduating with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, India. He is interested in Computer Vision with a focus on enabling robust and efficient perception for robotic systems. Currently, his research is on applying foundational models like VFMs/LLMs/VLMs to address challenges in 3D scene understanding and interactive navigation.

Previously, Avigyan was a Research Fellow in AI at IIT Bombay for a year before coming to CMU, working on the problem of Domain Generalization in Computer Vision using VLMs. He was also a Research Associate in the Responsible AI working group of GPAI in a social media content moderation project related to AI governance.

In his free time, he enjoys watching movies, and playing badminton and table tennis.

Email: avigyanb@andrew.cmu.edu

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