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Rudra P.K. Poudel
Associate Principal Research Scientist
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Toshiba Europe, Cambridge, UK

My research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. I am particularly interested to discover how we learn and how we see. Can we enable machines to do the same things? To answer these questions I am working in machine learning, computer vision and robotics research. My current research interests include unsupervised learning, multimodal representation learning, causality, world models, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and embodied AI.

Links : CV, Google scholar, Github, LinkedIn, Twitter

News

  • Invited talk at University of Oxford, 8 Nov 2024 on Multimodal World Models for Embodied Agents
  • Invited talk at AI Accelerator Institute, London, 7 Nov 2024 on Multimodal World Models for Embodied Agents
  • Organizing a BMVA Symposium on Robotics Foundation & World Models, 30 October 2024
  • Invited talk at Imperial College London, 31 May 2024 on World Models for Embodied Agents
  • Senior program committee member of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-22

Highlights

World Models, BMVA Symposium Invited Talk, 2024


AI for Developing Countries, NEA Keynote, 2023

Selected Publications

eg. Surgical Vision World Model
Surgical Vision World Model
arXiv, 2025
Saurabh Koju, Saurav Bastola, Prashant Shrestha, Sanskar Amgain, Yash Raj Shrestha, Rudra P.K. Poudel, Binod Bhattarai
[arXiv]

eg. ReCoRe: Regularized Contrastive Representation Learning of World Model
ReCoRe: Regularized Contrastive Representation Learning of World Model
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Harit Pandya, Stephan Liwicki, Roberto Cipolla
[Project Page] [Press Release] [CVPR] [arXiv] [Presentation Video] [Code]

Presentation

eg. Generalized Autonomous Optimization for Quantum Transmitters with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Generalized Autonomous Optimization for Quantum Transmitters with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Photonics West: Quantum Computing, Communication, and Simulation, 2024
Yuen San Lo, Robert Woodward, Taofiq Paraiso, Rudra P.K. Poudel, Andrew Shields
[Photonics West] [pdf]

eg. LanGWM: Language Grounded World Model
LanGWM: Language Grounded World Model
arXiv, 2023
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Harit Pandya, Chao Zhang, Roberto Cipolla
[arXiv]

eg. Contrastive Unsupervised Learning of World Model with Invariant Causal Features
Contrastive Unsupervised Learning of World Model with Invariant Causal Features
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2022
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Harit Pandya, Roberto Cipolla
[arXiv] [NeurIPS Workshop on CML4Impact]

eg. Fully Binary Neural Networks
Training Binary Neural Networks the Easy Way
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2022
Alasdair Paren, Rudra P.K. Poudel
[BMVC] [BMVC Supplementary]

eg. CoMBiNED
CoMBiNED: Multi-Constrained Model Based Planning for Navigation in Dynamic Environments
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Harit Pandya, Rudra P.K. Poudel, Stephan Liwicki
[ICML Workshop]

eg. Adaptive ALI-G
Faking Interpolation Until You Make It
Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2022
Alasdair Paren, Rudra P.K. Poudel, M Pawan Kumar
[TMLR]

eg. BORAT, JMLR 2022
A Stochastic Bundle Method for Interpolation
The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2022
Alasdair Paren, Leonard Berrada, Rudra P.K. Poudel, M Pawan Kumar
[JMLR]

eg. NavACL
Embodied Visual Navigation with Automatic Curriculum Learning in Real Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020
Steven D Morad, Roberto Mecca, Rudra P.K. Poudel, Stephan Liwicki, Roberto Cipolla
[pdf] [IEEE RA-L] [arXiv]

eg. Fast-SCNN
Fast-SCNN: Fast Semantic Segmentation Network
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019 [Oral]
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Stephan Liwicki, Roberto Cipolla
[pdf] [Slides] [arXiv]

eg. ContextNet
ContextNet: Exploring Context and Detail for Semantic Segmentation in Real-time
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018 [Oral]
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Ujwal Bonde, Stephan Liwicki, Christopher Zach
[pdf] [Slides] [arXiv] [Code]

eg. Predicting Brain Age with Deep Learning from Raw Imaging Data Results in a Reliable and Heritable Biomarker
Predicting Brain Age with Deep Learning from Raw Imaging Data Results in a Reliable and Heritable Biomarker
NeuroImage, 2017
James H Cole, Rudra P.K. Poudel, Dimosthenis Tsagkrasoulis, Matthan WA Caan, Claire Steves, Tim D Spector, Giovanni Montana
[pdf] [NeuroImage] [arXiv] [MIT Tech Review]

eg. Recurrent Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-slice MRI Cardiac Segmentation
Recurrent Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-slice MRI Cardiac Segmentation
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Workshop, 2016
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Pablo Lamata, Giovanni Montana
[pdf] [arXiv]

eg. A Unified Framework for 3D Hand Tracking
A Unified Framework for 3D Hand Tracking
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2013 [Oral]
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Jose AS Fonseca, Jian J Zhang, Hammadi Nait-Charif
[pdf] [Demo Video]

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Teaching

Current:

  • No Classes

Past:

  • Object Oriented Programming with C++
  • Management Information System
  • Operations Management

Mentoring:

PhD,
  • Alasdair Paren, PhD in University of Oxford, jointly with M Pawan Kumar, 2018-2022
  • Anthony Hu, PhD in University of Cambridge, jointly with Roberto Cipolla, 2018-2022
MPhil,
  • Nanze Chen, University of Cambridge, 2024
Intern,
  • Ruiqi Zhu, KingĀ“s College London, 2024
  • Alasdair Paren, University of Oxford, 2021
  • Steven Morad, University of Arizona, 2020

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