Dhruv Batra

Dhruv Batra is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing and a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), focusing on developing agents capable of visual perception, natural language dialogue, environmental interaction, and long-term reasoning.

He has received prestigious awards including the ONR Young Investigator Program, Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-Army), NSF CAREER award, ARO Young Investigator Program award, Google Faculty Research Awards, Amazon Academic Research award, and others.

Dhruv's research is supported by NSF, ARO, ARL, ONR, DARPA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, and has been recognized with numerous best paper awards and teaching commendations.

He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Computer Vision from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi.

Apart from his current roles, he has been involved in various capacities at organizations like Caliper, Virginia Tech, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), and as a Visiting Researcher at Facebook AI Research.

Dhruv Batra's research work has been widely covered by media outlets such as CNN, BBC, CNBC, MIT Technology Review, and NPR for its significant contributions to the field.

For more information on Dhruv Batra and his research, visit his webpage at www.cc.gatech.edu/~dbatra.