I am a Research Scientist at Meta. My research focuses on advancing next-gen AI glasses. Prior to Meta, I completed my Ph.D. from UT Austin where I worked with Prof. Kristen Grauman.
Before my Ph.D., I spent five wonderful years at IIT Bombay where I completed my Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering. In my master's thesis, I was supervised by Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri where I worked on 3D reconstruction from multi-view images.
| May 2026: | ExpertAF and Ego-Exo4D received the EgoVis distinguished paper award. |
| Apr 2026: | Started as a Research Scientist at Meta. |
| Feb 2026: | Stitch-a-Demo and SkillSight are accepted at CVPR 2026. |
| Sep 2025: | CrossTrainer is accepted at NeurIPS 2025. |
| July 2025: | Vid2Coach is accepted at UIST 2025. |
| May 2025: | MILS is accepted at ICML 2025. See you in Vancouver! |
| Apr 2025: | FIction is selected as a highlight at CVPR 2025. |
| Feb 2025: | Two papers accepted at CVPR 2025 - ExpertAF that provides actionable feedback from videos, and FIction that predicts future interaction location and body pose. |
| Oct 2024: | Recognized as a top reviewer (top 8%) for NeurIPS 2024. |
| May 2024: | Recognized as an outstanding reviewer (top 2%) for CVPR 2024. |
| Apr 2024: | Ego-Exo4D (paper) is selected as an oral presentation (selection rate: 0.8%) and VidDetours (paper) is selected as a highlight presentation (selection rate: 2.8%) at CVPR 2024. |
| Feb 2024: | Four papers accepted at CVPR 2024 - detours for navigating instructional video (paper), the Ego-Exo4D dataset (paper), identifying sounding actions in videos (paper) and learning object state changes in an open-world (paper). |
| Sep 2023: | Our work on video mined task graphs for keystep recognition in instructional videos (paper) is accepted at NeurIPS 2023. |
| Feb 2023: | Our work on hierarchical video-langague embeddings (HierVL) is accepted at CVPR 2023. |
| Jan 2023: | Started as a visiting researcher at FAIR, Meta AI. |
| Sep 2022: | Our paper on robust stochastic knowledge distillation is accepted at ICDM 2022. |
| May 2022: | Started as a Research Intern (AI) at Meta AI for Summer 2022. |
| August 2021: | Joined UT Austin to pursue a Ph.D. in CS! |
| June 2021: | I completed my Dual Degree (B.Tech with major in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication and Signal Processing) from IIT Bombay. |
| April 2021: | I will be joining UT Austin starting Fall'21 to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science. |
| January 2021: | Our work on statistically robust bandit algorithms is accepted for oral presentation at AISTATS (selection rate 3%). |
| August 2020: | I will be a TA for the course EE 635 - Applied Linear Algebra. |
| July 2020: | Our work on Lower Bounds of Policy Iterations is accepted at IEEE CDC 2020. (preprint) |
| May 2020: | Participated in pan-India AR hackathon on COVID-19. (presentation) |
| Apr 2020: | Paper accepted at IEEE ComPE-20 to be held from 2-4 July. Conference to take place in virtual mode. |
| Mar 2020: | IIT Bombay suspends classes for all students due to COVID-19. |
| Nov 2019: | Started 40-day internship at 360World at their Budapest office. |
| May 2026: | ExpertAF and Ego-Exo4D received the EgoVis distinguished paper award. |
| Apr 2026: | Started as a Research Scientist at Meta. |
| Feb 2026: | Stitch-a-Demo and SkillSight are accepted at CVPR 2026. |
| Sep 2025: | CrossTrainer is accepted at NeurIPS 2025. |
| July 2025: | Vid2Coach is accepted at UIST 2025. |
| May 2025: | MILS is accepted at ICML 2025. See you in Vancouver! |
| Apr 2025: | FIction is selected as a highlight at CVPR 2025. |
| Feb 2025: | Two papers accepted at CVPR 2025 - ExpertAF that provides actionable feedback from videos, and FIction that predicts future interaction location and body pose. |
| Oct 2024: | Recognized as a top reviewer (top 8%) for NeurIPS 2024. |
| May 2024: | Recognized as an outstanding reviewer (top 2%) for CVPR 2024. |
| Apr 2024: | Ego-Exo4D (paper) is selected as an oral presentation (selection rate: 0.8%) and VidDetours (paper) is selected as a highlight presentation (selection rate: 2.8%) at CVPR 2024. |
| Feb 2024: | Four papers accepted at CVPR 2024 - detours for navigating instructional video (paper), the Ego-Exo4D dataset (paper), identifying sounding actions in videos (paper) and learning object state changes in an open-world (paper). |
| Sep 2023: | Our work on video mined task graphs for keystep recognition in instructional videos (paper) is accepted at NeurIPS 2023. |
| Feb 2023: | Our work on hierarchical video-langague embeddings (HierVL) is accepted at CVPR 2023. |
| Jan 2023: | Started as a visiting researcher at FAIR, Meta AI. |
| Sep 2022: | Our paper on robust stochastic knowledge distillation is accepted at ICDM 2022. |
| May 2022: | Started as a Research Intern (AI) at Meta AI for Summer 2022. |
| August 2021: | Joined UT Austin to pursue a Ph.D. in CS! |
| June 2021: | I completed my Dual Degree (B.Tech with major in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication and Signal Processing) from IIT Bombay. |
| April 2021: | I will be joining UT Austin starting Fall'21 to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science. |
| January 2021: | Our work on statistically robust bandit algorithms is accepted for oral presentation at AISTATS (selection rate 3%). |
| August 2020: | I will be a TA for the course EE 635 - Applied Linear Algebra. |
| July 2020: | Our work on Lower Bounds of Policy Iterations is accepted at IEEE CDC 2020. (preprint) |
| May 2020: | Participated in pan-India AR hackathon on COVID-19. (presentation) |
| Apr 2020: | Paper accepted at IEEE ComPE-20 to be held from 2-4 July. Conference to take place in virtual mode. |
| Mar 2020: | IIT Bombay suspends classes for all students due to COVID-19. |
| Nov 2019: | Started 40-day internship at 360World at their Budapest office. |
ArXiv 2023
Kumar Ashutosh, Rohit Girdhar, Lorenzo Torresani, Kristen Grauman
Paper
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2022
Ajay Jaiswal, Kumar Ashutosh, Justin F Rousseau, Yifan Peng, Zhangyang Wang, Ying Ding
Paper
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 13th-15th April 2021, Online Conference
Oral Presentation (Selection rate: 3%)
Kumar Ashutosh, Jayakrishnan Nair, Anmol Kagrecha, Krishna Jagannathan
Paper
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2022
Kumar Ashutosh, Saurabh Kumar, Subhasis Chaudhuri
Paper
IEEE Conference on Computational Performance Evaluation (ComPE), 2nd - 4th July 2020, Online Conference
Kumar Ashutosh
Paper
Presentation
Brain Informatics Conference (BI), 10th - 12th December 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA
Rohit Bose*, Kumar Ashutosh*, Junhua Li, Andrei Dragomir, Nitish Thakor, and Anastasios Bezerianos
Paper
This project is being done in Autumn 2020 semester and expected date of completion is December 2020. We attempt to experiment with RL algorithms to automate Dots and Boxes, a popular high-school pen and paper game.
RLConnect - Reinforcement Learning agent to play Dots and Boxes
This blog contains report of Research and Development project done in the supervision of Prof. Parag Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay. In this project, I developed a novel AR-based table top game which fits into the terrain of the scene and adjusts the game object based on the markers. The characters can move in 3D world with correct spatial understanding.
Capture the Flag - An out of box AR Game
This is one of my many hobby projects done this semester. It is aimed at learning how to use hardware for AR/VR. I wanted to experiment with the Leap Motion Controller as soon as I knew about it.
Virtual Keyboard using Leap Motion Controller
In this blog, I include final report of the Electronic Design Lab (EDL) project done under the guidance of Prof. Pramod Murali. The report contains all the relevant details including circuit diagram, results, flowcharts.
Discrete Analog to Digital Converter
This project was done as a part of the Microprocessors course at IIT Bombay. The microprocessor design was done for both multi-cycle and pipelined architecture. The theory required for the project was taught alongside during 5th Semester in my undergraduate course by Prof Virendra Singh, IIT Bombay.
RISC Processor Design
Google Summer of Code is an annual Open Source program which selects open source enthusiasts who work on interesting projects under many different open source organizations. The aim of the program is to promote open source and to teach the practices of good coding skills. The program is highly competitive and the acceptance rate is around 20-25%.
I was selected in dipy - an open source organization in Medical Imaging. My mentor is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington.
The blog contains my overall experience as a GSoCer.
Extended Visualization: Focus in GLSL
I was selected as a research intern under Prof Anastasios Bezerianos and Prof Nitish Thakor, at SINAPSE (Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology), at NUS (National University of Singapore). I worked in establishing brain connectivity patterns during creative thinking. I explored how the EEG (Electroencephalogram) brain pattern changes during creative thinking and established statistical differences between the two states of mind.
Multi-layered analysis of Brain Networks
Blog on Research and Development Project done under Prof Amit Sethi, IIT Bombay.
Discriminative Localization in Medical Images
Lists down some other projects done as part of my curriculum at IIT Bombay. The topics covered by projects listed here include signal processing, online learning, electrical circuits, microcontroller programming etc.
Other Projects
The aim of the project is to develop a fully functional Augmented Reality based Chess game application. 
Augmented Reality Chess Game - ARChess
STALLED. Done independently by Rishi Vanukuru
The aim of this project is to develop a fully functional Augmented Reality based Location Assistant. 
Geolocation-AR: AR Based Navigation System
STALLED. If you are a junior/sophomore at IITB and this project intrigues you, I can mentor you. Email me.
Built with leonids theme.
My thought on how Time Travel can actually be a reality and indeed we might be doing it unknowingly in many forms. Read this small piece to know what I think.
The last two weeks were full of fun. Sitting near my screen exploring various shaders was fun. With the help of Elef and Ranveer, I could do a lot of different examples and all this helped me build some really cool visualization examples (At least I was amazed :P ). In this blog, I walk the reader through a few things I achieved over the past two weeks.
Hey folks!! We have come to the end of the first stage of GSoC project, the Community Bonding Period. Official coding begins NOW!!
Phew!!! Selected for GSoC-2018 :)
I am an active contributor to scikit-learn, a machine learning package in Python. I list down my contributions to scikit-learn in this blog.
I am back to my very own space. I was hoping to write on to this page for a very long time. But yeah, if only I could have contributed earlier. But better late than never.
This is my first blog. My curiosity to explore Jekyll pages instigated me to make a webpage of my own and host it on my Github profile. I would recommend all the readers to give it a try and make your own personal page. Please let me know if you find this blog attractive.
Part 3 of my weekend trips in Japan. Details my experience in Tokyo.
Part 2 of my weekend trips in Japan. Details my experience at FujiQ Highlands and Odaiba
Location: Yokohama Chinatown, Japan
Part 1 of my weekend trips in Japan. Details my experience at Tokyo Skytree, Ueno Park, Sumeda Aquarium, Tokyo Tower, Rainbow bridge, and Kamakura
Location: Kamakura, Japan
In this blog post, I pen down my family trip experience to the untouched paradise - Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In this week-long journey, we went to many beautiful beaches and historical sites. Scuba diving, I would say, was the pinnacle of my excitement.
Location: Radhanagar Beach, Andaman
