IIIT Hyderabad · Computer Science
Itikela Bhaskar
B.Tech + M.S. by Research in CSE — multimodal learning, video understanding, and the systems that ship them.
Undergraduate researcher in the Video-Language Group (CVIT) under Prof. Makarand Tapaswi. Summer 2026 ML intern at Lloyds Technology Centre, with a run of hackathon wins in on-device AI, agentic data quality, and flood mapping from SAR.
Open to ML & research internships
Built, judged, shipped.
Software Defect Prediction
2026ISEC 2026 Student Data Science Challenge
Predicting which software modules are defect-prone from static code metrics alone — without ever running the code.
SnapGen — On-Device Image Generation
2025Qualcomm Megathon 2025
Stable Diffusion running entirely on an Android phone — no cloud, no network, accelerated on the Snapdragon NPU.
Med Veda
2026An on-device clinical triage assistant — MedGemma 1.5 4B reads chest X-rays and answers questions over patient records entirely on the phone, with zero PHI leaving the device.
Currently & recently.
- Apr 2025 — PresentCurrent
Undergraduate Researcher, Video-Language Group · CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad
Multimodal learning, video understanding, and vision-language models with Prof. Makarand Tapaswi.
- May — Aug 2026
Machine Learning Intern · Lloyds Technology Centre
Summer internship in Hyderabad — applied machine learning.
Completion letter (PDF) - Jan — Apr 2026
Backend Developer (part-time) · Hustlr
API design, server-side logic, and cloud integration for an early-stage product.