Hey, I'm Vidhan!

ML researcher, applied AI engineer, finder of very small things.

A brief timeline

2019–2023
Electronics student: B.Tech in ECE at Jabalpur Engineering College. Signals, circuits, and my first real taste of image processing.
2022
ISRO intern: Six months at the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, turning airborne LiDAR scans of forests into individual trees.
2024–2026
Researcher: M.Tech in Signal & Image Processing at NIT Rourkela. Designed four lightweight networks that find people who are only a few pixels wide in aerial thermal images. 7 papers came out of it.
2026–now
Engineer: Building applied AI systems at Ascendion in Bengaluru, and writing things down as I go.

Also: reads about cosmology and spacetime for fun, asks too many “but why does it work?” questions, occasional photographer.

Vidhan smiling, arms crossed, in a navy shirt — Currently building AI systems that scale, and teaching machines to spot things that are **very small** and **very far away**.

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What I spend most of my thinking time on. Plain-language summaries included.

Tiny humans in thermal imagery

Most of my M.Tech. A person seen from a drone in thermal infrared can be a blob of a few pixels. I designed lightweight detectors that still find them, cheaply enough to run on the drone itself.

Ships in messy seas

Collaborations on detecting ships in optical remote sensing images, where waves, haze and clouds make everything harder.

Forests from LiDAR

At ISRO, I turned airborne LiDAR point clouds of dense forest into individual tree crowns using a region-growing algorithm, then checked the results against ground truth.