Anisha Pal

I am a Scientific ML Engineer at PlanetteAI where I work on developing AI based subseasonal climate forecasting models. I pursued my Masters at Georgia Tech where I was advised by Prof. Judy Hoffman on problems related to robustness and distribution shift in computer vision.

My research interests lie in leveraging synthetic data and developing standardized benchmarks and evaluation strategies to design resilient, robust, and interpretable algorithms, enabling the accelerated application of AI in climate forecasting, conservation, and sustainability.

My background includes diverse projects focused on computer vision, geospatial applications, climate forecasting, and sustainability. I had the opportunity to work at the Center for Quality Growth and Development, under the guidance of Prof. Arthi Rao , on a GIS-based community decision support tool aimed at sustainable county planning. I also spent two years as a Machine Learning Engineer at HyperVerge, a Fintech and Geospatial startup, developing computer vision solutions for geospatial analysis and face spoof detection.

During my free time you will often find me climbing, hiking, reading or cooking. I am always open to collaborating on exciting projects, so feel free to reach out if our work and interests align !

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Publications
project_img Semi-Truths: A Large-Scale Dataset of AI-Augmented Images for Evaluating Robustness of AI-Generated Image detectors
Anisha Pal*, Julia Kruk*, Mansi Phute, Manognya Bhattaram, Diyi Yang, Duen Horng Chau, Judy Hoffman
* Indicates equal contribution
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024  
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project_img SkyScenes: A Synthetic Dataset for Aerial Scene Understanding
Sahil Khose*, Anisha Pal*, Aayushi Agarwal*, Deepanshi*, Judy Hoffman, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay
* Indicates equal contribution
European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024  
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project_img SegFast-V2: Semantic image segmentation with less parameters in deep learning for autonomous driving
Swarnendu Ghosh, Anisha Pal, Shourya Jaiswal, KC Santosh, Nibaran Das, Mita Nasipuri
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2019  
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project_img SegFast: A Faster SqueezeNet based Semantic Image Segmentation Technique using Depth-wise Separable Convolutions
Anisha Pal, Shourya Jaiswal, Swarnendu Ghosh, Nibaran Das, Mita Nasipuri
ICVGIP, 2018  
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Experience
project_img Scientific Machine Learning Engineer at Planette AI | June 2024 - Present

Building AI foundation model for subseasonal climate forecasting using spatiotemporal and multimodal data

project_img Graduate Student Researcher at Hoffman Lab | Jan 2023 - May 2024

Advisor: Prof.Judy Hoffman

Exploring synthetic-to-real generalization of computer vision applications for aerial imagery and analyzing model sensitivity to intra domain shifts using synthetic data and GenAI applications

project_img Machine Learning Intern at Corteva Agriscience | May 2023 - Aug 2023

Developed a cost-effective, globally accessible solution for field boundary detection by designing and implementing an image transformer-based image super-resolution algorithm on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, bypassing the need for expensive high-resolution images.

project_img Graduate Research Assistant at CQGRD | Aug 2022 - May 2023

Advisor: Prof. Arthi Rao

Developed a statistical metric integrated as an ArcGIS decision support tool to suggest safe freight infrastructure development locations that will quantify growth towards social, environmental, and economic resilience in Henry County.

project_img Machine Learning Engineer at Hyperverge | Dec 2019 - July 2022

Led the development of a various computer vision projects including facial spoof detection and infrastructure change detection system using geospatial data.

project_img Solution Specialist Intern at Microsoft, India | May 2019 - July 2019

Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the smart city landscape in India, performing market research on cloud and AI services adoption, and suggesting a growth-maximizing roadmap targeting industry leaders

project_img Research Intern at Jadavpur University, India | May 2018 - June 2018

Advisor: Prof.Nibaran Das

Designed a computationally efficient deep learning-based semantic segmentation algorithm for self- driving cars that achieved 10x faster speed, 5x less memory consumption, and 224x fewer parameters with similar accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms.

Projects
project_img NAS Latency Predictor

Expanded NATS-Bench with hardware-specific latency data and developed a latency predictor that generalizes to new hardware and architectures. without sample measurements on the critical inference path.

project_img Medical VQA

Analyzed the importance of different VQA components and designed an easy to use lightweight framework that is able to achieve results comparable to state of the art on VQA-RAD dataset

project_img Aye-Aye monitoring

As a member of UC, San Diego, Engineers for Exploration collaborated with San Diego Zoo to develop a real-time machine learning system to monitor and analyze behavioral cues in Aye-Aye for early detection of health issues.

project_img Black Box Optimization

Identified the advantage of trust-region based exploration-exploitation provided by Turbo and the superior candidate selection method (TPE) used by Hyperopt to design a hybrid approach.

project_img Adversarial Defense

Trained neural networks that are robust to post-hoc pruning using Targeted Dropout. The idea was to cut off the snow-ball effect of error buildup in the network’s activations by removing the impact of most weights.

Education
project_img Master of Science in Computer Science | Specialization in Machine Learning

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta | Aug 2022 - May 2024

Specialization in Machine Learning

Masters Project advised by Prof. Judy Hoffman

project_img Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal | July 2016 - June 2020

Minor Specialization in Data Science

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