Sathyanarayanan Aakur
Assistant Professor at Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolSathyanarayanan Aakur is an assistant professor and researcher specializing in common-sense reasoning for computer vision and NLP, focusing on self-supervised methods to recognize and segment events in video. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science and roughly a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, he has transitioned from applied roles—such as an Amazon applied scientist intern working on real-time activity segmentation—to faculty positions at Oklahoma State and Auburn University. His background blends strong systems and software engineering experience (leading productivity and automation efforts in industry) with rigorous research in multimodal perception. Notably, he brings practical production insight to academic problems, turning real-world constraints into research directions that improve event understanding in video.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Management Information Systems, 3.78, M.S, Management Information Systems, 3.78 at University of South FloridaAnna University, ChennaiHigher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Leo Matriculation Higher Secondary School
English, Tamil, French
Stackoverflow
16reputation
61reached
1answer
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Github Skills (9)
ranking9
react8
computer-science8
science8
jquery-selectors6
javascript-objects6
deep-learning2
computer-vision2
pytorch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
saakur/CSrankings
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues.
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
saakur/saakur.github.io
Jun 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:346 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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