Namaste !
I do what I love, I love what I do
I am MS student at UC Santa Barbara and graduate researcher at the Vision Research Lab, advised by Prof. B. S. Manjunath. My interests lie at the intersection of 2D/3D computer vision and robotics, focusing on systems that can see, understand, and interact with the world through visual intelligence and geometric reasoning.
Before UCSB, I was Research Associate at IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Dr. Harikumar Kandath and Dr. Ravi Kiran, and previously worked as a Robotics Software Engineer at Flux Auto, Inc, an Intern at BlackCoffeeRobotics, and as an Outreachy Developer Intern at Git. I combine research with engineering skills to solve real-world vision problems across robotics, geospatial analysis, and scientific imaging. I am open to opportunities and collaborations in 2D/3D computer vision and always happy to chat if youβre exploring similar ideas.
You can find my resume here.
Research Interests : SLAM, 3D reconstruction, Gaussian Splatting, 3D Generative Models, VLM, Object Detection/Tracking, Segmentation
Publications
RareSpot: Spotting Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery β Benchmark, Model, and Active Learning Framework
(Submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision)
Bowen Zhang, Jesse T. Boulerice, Charvi Mendiratta, Nikhil Kuniyil, Satish Kumar, Hila Shamon, B. S. Manjunath
RareSpot: Spotting Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery with Multi-Scale Consistency and Context-Aware Augmentation
Accepted at CVPR (CV4Animals workshop) 2025
Bowen Zhang, Jesse T Boulerice, Nikhil Kuniyil, Charvi Mendiratta, Satish Kumar, Hila Shamon, BS Manjunath
Technology Internships Meet Open Source in Outreachy
Gitlab Blog Feature (Winter 2020)
Charvi Mendiratta, Christian Couder, Joey Salazar, Nuritzi Sanchez
Latest News
Nov 2024: Joined Vision Research Lab, UCSB
Sep 2024: Started MS in ECE (Signal Processing) at University of California, Santa Barbara
Jul 2023: Began role as Research Associate, IIIT Hyderabad
Jun 2021: Joined FluxAuto, Bangalore as Robotics Software Engineer (Mapping & Localization)
Sep 2020: Selected as Outreachy Intern at Git, Remote
May 2020: Completed BE in ECE, UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Jan 2020: Joined Black Coffee Robotics, Pune as Robotics Intern
Nov 2019: Awarded ROSCON Diversity Scholarship, attended at Macau
Aug 2019: Winner - Smart India Hackathon @ IIT Hyderabad
Mar 2019: Reached Semi-finals - e-Yantra Robotics Competition, IIT Bombay
Dec 2018: Secured 3rd Place - Ennovate Hackathon, UIET
Nov 2018: Poster Presentation @ Chandigarh Science Congress
Aug 2018: Quarterfinalist - Texas Instruments IICDC
Miscellaneous
I speak English and Hindi natively.
Outside of work, I enjoy reading books, learning science, and doodling.