Summary
Vishal Thengane is a joint PhD student at the University of Surrey and University of Wollongong specializing in data- and resource-efficient 3D world understanding by leveraging vision-language and large language models. With eight years of industry and research experience across institutions like MBZUAI, CERN, NTU Singapore and SUTD, he blends continual learning, multimodal models and practical deployment skills to tackle real-world perception challenges. His work has ranged from proposing continual 3D long-tail datasets to graph-based VAE detector simulations, showing a knack for bridging foundational models and domain-specific problems. Comfortable across PyTorch, Hugging Face, Docker and major cloud platforms, he pairs deep technical breadth with hands-on systems engineering. A former freelancer and ML engineer, he also brings applied experience in audio/video processing, generative models and scalable ML pipelinesโoften favoring compact, deployable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 8.5/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 8.5/10 at Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wollongong
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Surrey
English, Hindi, Marathi