Sudipan Saha
Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi
Office: Academic Complex East, 5th floor
Email: sudipan.saha at scai.iitd.ac.in
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I am a faculty member in the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Delhi. Before this, I was a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Trento, Italy, where
my advisors were Dr. Francesca Bovolo and Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone.
I am a researcher in Earth observation, computer vision, and climate AI. In more details, my research interests include multi-sensor learning and adaptation, multi-temporal image analysis, unsupervised representation learning, understanding of evolution of meteorological variables and land surface, and uncertainty quantification.
Students at IIT Delhi
- PhD (Current): Ritik Kumar Das (ScAI).
- Masters by Research (Current): Kanishk Awadhiya (ScAI, expected graduation: 2026).
- Masters (Current): Pulkit Singal (ScAI, expected graduation: 2025).
- Masters by Research (Graduated): Tushar Verma, Naimish P. Machchar (ScAI, 2025 graduating batch).
- Masters (Graduated): Pratik Vora, Braj Raj Nagar, Sangam Kumar, Swaransh Patel (ScAI, 2024 graduating batch).
- Bachelors (Graduated): Bismandeep Singh (EE, 2024 graduating batch).
You can expect a recommendation letter from me only if one of the following is satisfied
- You did a thesis with me and performed satisfactorily.
- You are a co-author in a paper with me and you contributed significantly to the paper.
- You spent 6+ months with me as a JRF or RA and performed satisfactorily.
Currently looking for
- PhD students to work on topics in computer vision, Earth observation, and climate AI.
- For Academic Year 2025-2026, up to two Masters thesis students to also work on the above-mentioned topics. Expressions of interest will be accepted until March 31, 2025.
Currently not looking for
- Short term internship students.
- Online internship students.
- Mini project students.
On-going/recently concluded funded projects as PI
- SERB (GoI) funded project on urban mapping (ongoing).
- IIT Delhi MFIRP project with TU Delft on plastic hotspot detection (concluded).
- ITC Limited funded project on burned area mapping (concluded).
Administrative roles at IIT Delhi
- Department MTech Coordinator, since 2024 July.
- Member of Department Space Committee, since 2023 February.
- Member of Department Research Committee, since 2023-2024 Academic Year.
- Department Website & Social Media Coordinator, since 2023 April.
- Member of Admission Committee, 2024 Summer and 2024 Winter.
- PGCIC Nominee, 2025.
- Hostel Proctoring Team Member, 2023 Summer and 2024 Summer.
- Department representative for Open House held on November 2023.
- Department representative for Anveshan held on March 2025.
- As of December 2024, serving in Research Committee of 4 PhD students, one at ScAI, one at Department of Civil Engg., one at Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, one at Center of Atmospheric Sciences.
- GATE/JAM institute representative: 2024,2025.
Editorial roles
- Associate Editor, IEEE JSTARS (since 2024).
- Topical Associate Editor, IEEE TGRS (since 2024).
Before writing to me, consider the following
- Are you a student looking for an internship? I generally do not provide internship. You will most probably not receive a reply.
- Are you a faculty member looking to collaborate on a project on AI-based remote sensing? Sure, please write to me. Depending on the proposal, we may or may not collaborate.
- Are you a faculty member looking to collaborate on a project on computer vision (excluding video analysis)? Sure, please write to me. Depending on the proposal, we may or may not collaborate.
- Are you a faculty member looking to collaborate on a project on video analysis related topics? I generally do not work in this area. You are requested to search for alternate collaborator.
- Are you a faculty member looking to collaborate on a project on topics that are not covered above? I generally do not work in these areas. You are requested to search for alternate collaborator.
- Do you want to invite me to give an invited talk? Please write to me providing sufficient details and credentials and from an official email.
- Do you want to invite me to some government or private event or ceremony, just as a guest without a more specific role? I generally do not attend such events, please do not invite.
- Do you want to invite me to review papers for a conference? I regularly support IEEE TGRS, JSTARS, and GRSL by reviewing numerous papers each year. Additionally, I review for either CVPR or ECCV/ICCV annually, as well as for conferences where I am a submitting author. Please refrain from sending additional review requests unless you are seeking my involvement in a broader capacity.