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, and a backend developer at Hustlr — 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
- May – Jul 2026
Machine Learning Intern · Lloyds Banking Group
Summer 2026 internship — applied machine learning.