The Team

Current and past members of the CAT Lab at IIT Jodhpur.

Principal Investigator

• Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan Assistant Professor (Grade II)

Current members

PhD students

• Piyush Joshi Enrolled Autumn 2026–27
• Yash Chawda Enrolled Spring 2025–26
• Vishnu Enrolled Autumn 2025–26

Alumni

Executive MTech (Data and Computational Science) students

• Rayipalli Prakash — School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, 2025–2026.Project: GNN-Based Automatic Calorie Identification from Food Images
• Md Parvez Rahaman — School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, 2025–2026.Project: AI-Based Text Summarization and Tone Rewriting System Using BART and T5

Summer interns

• Vaibhav Suvagiya — SURAJ intern, Summer 2026 (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat).Project: RAMO: A Verified MaxSAT Repair Oracle for Tabu Search on Ramsey 2-Colouring, A De-Confounded Negative Result
• B James Mejulan — SURAJ intern, Summer 2026 (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat).Project: Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups
• Sai Akshar Tadimeti — Reading project, Summer 2026 (IIT Jodhpur).Project: Discrete mathematics from Rosen's “Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications”

Collaborators

Coauthors on published and forthcoming work, listed alphabetically by surname. See the Publications page for the corresponding papers.

• Niranjan Balachandran — IIT Bombay.
• Kumar Balasubramanian — IISER Bhopal.
• Srimanta Bhattacharya — IIT Palakkad.
• Shagnik Das — National Taiwan University.
• Krishn Vishwas Kher — IIT Hyderabad.
• Rogers Mathew — IIT Hyderabad.
• Saraswati Girish Nanoti — IISc.
• K. S. Senthil Raani — IISER Berhampur.
• Umesh Shankar — IISc.
• Eshwar Srinivasan — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore