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Badri Narayana Patro

Badri Narayana Patro holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an M.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Currently, he serves as a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium, and before that, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Google Research, India. His industry experience includes roles as a Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute, India, an Associate Software Engineer at Harman International, India, and an Assistant Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Limited. Dr. Patro's research focuses on computer vision and natural language processing, leveraging Deep Learning techniques such as Transformers and LLMs. He has contributed as a reviewer for numerous prestigious conferences and journals in the field and is a member of CVF and ACL. His research contributions span conferences like CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS,  AAAI, EMNLP, BMVC, WACV, MM, and ICASSP, as well as journals including TIP, PR, Neurocomputing, and Image Vision Computing. He has served as a reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, BMVC, WACV, ICVGIP, T-PAMI, TIP,TMM and PR.