Megh Bhalerao

I am a second year PhD Student in Computer Science at Rice University, advised by Prof. Vaibhav Unhelkar. I work on Human-Computer Interaction.

I completed my Master’s in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington (in June 2024). I was a member of the MELODI Lab, advised by Prof. Jeffrey Bilmes conducting research at the intersection of Submodularity, Computer Vision, and Data Summarization. I have also collaborated with Prof. Sheng Wang at UW CSE (2022) in areas of Biomedical Natural Language Procesing.

I was a Project Assistant (2020 - 2021) in the Image Analysis and Compter Vision Lab at the Indian Institute of Science working with Prof. Soma Biswas on Domain Adaptation and Semi-supervised Learning.

I completed my Undergraduate Thesis (2019) on Medical Image Semantic Segmentation at the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analysis, University of Pennsylvania with Prof. Spyridon Bakas. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Krishnan CMC.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2020.