Hi! This is Hitesh, welcome to my space! I am a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, working with Saikat Guha to digitize traditional newspapers, making them more accessible to visually challenged people by enabling easy navigation and access to the content. I also collaborate with Jianwei Yang at Microsoft Research Redmond to investigate the capabilities of diffusion models in image editing and video/GIF generation.

In 2022, I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering. I also completed two minor degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, and Machine Learning and Data Science. I did my Bachelor Thesis on Compositional Zero Shot Learning, where I was advised by Professor Biplab Banerjee.

I'm deeply fascinated by the synergy between different types of data including text, images, videos, audio, and more, mirroring a subset of human senses. Eventually, I want to work at this big intersection. As a stepping stone towards this goal, I am currently studying the interaction between vision and language.

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