Hrishikesh Viswanath

   West Lafayette, IN, USA
   PhD Student, IDEAS Lab, Purdue University
   Graduate Research Assistant (2024-)
   Purdue CS Grad Student Board (2022-)

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About

I am a PhD student advised by Dr. Aniket Bera at IDEAS Lab, Purdue University, Department of CS. My research interests are to work on optimization of AI models for scientific Machine learning, the integration of physics informed AI models into computer graphics and robotics to accelerate their performance. Broadly put, I want to answer to important research questions - "How can AI be used in conjunction with classical methods to model physics?" and "How can principles of mechanics and physics be modelled in graphics and robotics?"

I am currently exploring physics informed neural architectures and stochastic approaches to model physical systems in a geometry agnostic and discretization agnostic manner to achieve atleast 5x the speedup compared to methods such as MPM, SPH and FEM.

I have done multi-disciplinary research projects with various research groups. More recently I have worked on fairness analysis of Large pretrained Language Models at Purdue University, as part of my Master’s research, under the supervision of Dr. Tianyi Zhang .

During the summer of 2022, I interned at ResconAI, a JHU Startup. I had the privilege of working with Dr. Suhas Eswarappa Prameela and Dr. Burigede Liu . My primary work was to explore Neural Operator based architectures to solve Partial Differential Equations.

I love Hiking and exploring the countryside. I'm a space enthusiast and follow Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I collect comics specifically DC Comics (New 52) and Franco-Belgian BD. I listen to a lot of Rock and Metal and am a huge fan of Linkin Park.

News

Sept 16, 2024 Paper Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Aug 1, 2024 Funded as an RA through Army Research Lab
May 1, 2024 Mentor project ARTEMIS wins second place in Spring Undergraduate research Conference, Purdue University
Apr 10, 2024 Received Summer Research Grant
Mar 31, 2024 Reviewer for 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Mar 6, 2024 Recipient of one time Merit Recognition Award
Jan 29, 2024 Paper Accepted at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Dec 10, 2023 Joined the leadership team of Space and Earth Analogs Research Chapter of Purdue (SEARCH), Vice-President & Admin lead
Dec 2, 2023 Selected for the on-site round of NASA SUITS 2024
May 31, 2023 Graduated with my Master's Degree!
Oct 12, 2022 Joined IDEAS Lab, Purdue, as a PhD Student

Selected Publications

2024

Reduced-Order Neural Operators: Learning Lagrangian Dynamics on Highly Sparse Graphs
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Chang Yue, Julius Berner, Peter Yichen Chen, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03925
Paper Project Page

2023

Trajectory Prediction for Robot Navigation using Flow-Guided Markov Neural Operator
Rashmi Bhaskara*, Hrishikesh Viswanath*, Aniket Bera
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Paper

Graph-based Decentralized Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Target Localization
Juntong Peng, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Aniket Bera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
Paper

ARTEMIS: AI-driven Robotic Triage Labeling and Emergency Medical Information System
Revanth Senthilkumaran, Mridu Prashanth, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Sathvika Kotha, Kshitij Tiwari, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08865
Paper Project Page

AffectEcho: Speaker Independent and Language-Agnostic Emotion and Affect Transfer for Speech Synthesis
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Aneesh Bhattacharya, Pascal Jutras-Dube, Prerit Gupta, Mridu Prashanth, Yashvardhan Khaitan, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08577
Paper Project Page

AdaFNIO: Adaptive Fourier Neural Interpolation Operator for video frame interpolation
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Rashmi Bhaskara, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10791v2
Paper Project Page

PaCMO: Partner Dependent Human Motion Generation in Dyadic Human Activity using Neural Operators
Md Ashiqur Rahman, Jasorsi Ghosh, Aneesh Bhattacharya, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16210
Paper

2022

Neural Operator: Is data all you need to model the world? An insight into the impact of Physics Informed Machine Learning
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Abhijeet Vyas, Andrey Shor, Beatriz Medeiros, Stephanie Hernandez, Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13331
Paper

FairPy: A Toolkit for Evaluation of Social Biases and their Mitigation in Large Language Models
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Tianyi Zhang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05508
Paper Code

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
CS251: Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 23)

Co-Instructor, GTA at Purdue University
CS490/590: Introduction to AR/VR (Spring 23)

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Purdue University
CS502: Compiling and Programming Systems (Fall 22)
CS502: Compiling and Programming Systems (Spring 22)

Peer Teacher at PES University
CS204: Web Technologies I (Fall 2018)

Social Clubs

2023-24
Purdue SEARCH (Fall 23)
Purdue CS Graduate Student Board (Fall 23)
Purdue French Club and Francophone Student Association (Fall 23)
Indian Classical Music Association at Purdue (ICMAP) (Fall 23)
Purdue South Indian Association (Fall 23)

2022-23
Purdue Japan Student Association (Spring 23)
Purdue French Student Association (Spring 23)
Purdue CS Graduate Student Board (Fall 22)
Purdue South Indian Association (Fall 22)

2021-22
ML Journal Reading club (Fall 21)
IEEE Computer Society, Purdue (Fall 21)
Purdue Vinyl Club (Fall 21)
Bridges International, Purdue (Fall 21)

SKPS
2008 - 2015
PES University
2017 - 2021
Cisco Systems
2021
Purdue University
2021 - Present
IEEE Computer Society Purdue
S2021
ResconAI
S2022