Ashish Papanai
Ashish Papanai — photo by Anushka Bhandari

Ashish Papanai

MSc Machine Learning · University of Tübingen
Research at the CVML Lab · ELIZA Masters Scholar

I am a Master's student in Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen, supported by the ELIZA research-based Master's Scholarship. Previously, I was an Associate ML Scientist II at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where I built computer-vision systems for agricultural AI — crop monitoring, pest detection, and yield estimation — with a focus on model optimization and real-world deployment.

I currently work with Prof. Hilde Kuehne and Edson Araujo at the CVML Lab on spatial audio, multimodal systems, spatial audio-visual question answering (Spatial-AVQA), and world models — building AI that perceives and reasons jointly across vision, audio, and 3D space. Broadly, I care about human-centric, reliable, and ethical AI for social impact, and about bridging theoretical ML with deployable systems.

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Selected Publications

AAAI '24
Maintaining User Trust Through Multistage Uncertainty Aware Inference
C. Agrawal, A. Papanai, J. White
AAAI Workshop on Deployable AI
MICCAI '23
Gall Bladder Cancer Detection from US Images with Only Image Level Labels
S. Basu, A. Papanai, M. Gupta, P. Gupta, C. Arora
MICCAI 2023
DELCON '23
VIhanceD: Efficient Video Super Resolution for Edge Devices
A. Papanai, S. Babbar, P. Anshuman, H. Kathuria, A. Sharma, N. Gupta
IEEE Delhi Section Flagship Conference (DELCON 2023)

Education

Research Interests

Multimodal Systems Spatial Audio Spatial-AVQA World Models Computer Vision Medical Image AI AI for Social Good Model Explainability