Department of Computer Science
Bio
Dr. Aakur obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida in Summer 2019, working under Dr. Sudeep Sarkar on commonsense reasoning for visual understanding. His research interest is in visual understanding beyond recognition. His lab's work focuses on building common sense reasoning through predictive generative learning and abductive reasoning using large scale knowledge bases. This encompasses the following topics: computer vision, deep learning, cognitive science, remote sensing, pattern theory and commonsense reasoning.