Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, GPA: (10/10) [Aug. 2021 - Sep. 2025]
- M.S. (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, GPA: (10/10), [Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2021]
- B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Percentage: 78.42%, [Aug. 2013 - Jul. 2017]
Publications
Vaidehi Agarwal, Trishna Saikia, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``SHINE: Synergizing transformers with contrastive learning for thriving rPPG-based SpO2 estimation.’’. Expert Syst. Appl., 2026.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Trishna Saikia, Puneet Gupta, Abhinav Dhall. ``PainXtract: A Multimodal System for Multiclass Pain Classification Using Physiological Signals.’’. ICMI Companion, 2025.
Trishna Saikia, Lokendra Birla, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``HREADAI: Heart Rate Estimation From Face Mask Videos by Consolidating Eulerian and Lagrangian Approaches.’’. IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2024.
Sneha Shukla, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``Exploring the feasibility of adversarial attacks on medical image segmentation.’’. Multim. Tools Appl., 2024.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Ashutosh Dhamaniya, Puneet Gupta. ``RADIANCE: Reliable and interpretable depression detection from speech using transformer.’’. Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2024.
Lokendra Birla, Sneha Shukla, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``ALPINE: Improving Remote Heart Rate Estimation using Contrastive Learning.’’. WACV, 2023.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Rupesh Kumar, Lokendra Birla, Puneet Gupta. ``RADIANT: Better rPPG estimation using signal embeddings and Transformer.’’. WACV, 2023.
Aditya Dixit, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta, Saurabh Srivastava, Ankur Garg. ``UNFOLD: 3-D U-Net, 3-D CNN, and 3-D Transformer-Based Hyperspectral Image Denoising.’’. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2023.
Sneha Shukla, Lokendra Birla, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``Trustworthy Medical Image Segmentation with improved performance for in-distribution samples.’’. Neural Networks, 2023.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Vardhan Paliwal, Aryan Rastogi, Puneet Gupta. ``TRIESTE: translation based defense for text classifiers.’’. J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput., 2023.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Aryan Rastogi, Vardhan Paliwal, Fyse Nassar, Puneet Gupta. ``D-NEXUS: Defending text networks using summarization.’’. Electron. Commer. Res. Appl., 2022.
Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta, Esa Rahtu. ``FATALRead - Fooling visual speech recognition models.’’. Appl. Intell., 2022.
Jainendra Shukla, Puneet Gupta, Aniket Bera, Arka Sarkar, Prakhar Goel, Shubhangi Butta, Anup Kumar Gupta, Snehil Sanyal, Debanga Raj Neog, Manas Kamal Bhuyan, Kalyani Marathe, Linda G. Shapiro, Alex Colbrn, Varchita Lalwani. ``Contextual Emotion Learning Challenge.’’. FG, 2021.
Saumya Mishra, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta. ``DARE: Deceiving Audio-Visual speech Recognition model.’’. Knowl. Based Syst., 2021.
Patent
- Puneet Gupta, Trishna Saikia, Anup Kumar Gupta. “System, apparatus, and method for heart rate determination of individuals wearing face mask”, Filed under Indian jurisdiction (Ref. No: 202321071568).
Work experience
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore (Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Sep. 2025 – Present)
- Translational Research Scholar
- Leading the development of SEHAT: A smartphone-enabled remote Heart Rate Assessment and Tracking application.
- Purdue University (Lafayette, USA, Jun. 2024 - Jul. 2024)
- Visiting Research Scholar
- Awarded the Short Term Research Fellowship to develop context-aware multimodal sentiment analysis models.
- Shri GS Institute of Technology & Science (SGSITS), (Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Oct. 2021 – Aug. 2025)
- Guest Faculty and Course Co-ordinator
- Course cordinator for subjects including Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning under the PMRF scheme.
- Kwench Global Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Oct. 2017 - Apr. 2018)
- Software Engineer
- Developed Workplace Bots in a team that is Product Partner of Workplace, an enterprise connectivity platform by Facebook.
- Worked on the Reward and Recognition Platform that is trusted by over 500 companies across 63 countries.
- Developed rules for the Reward Platform, which helps provide the clients with numerous configurations of the Reward System of their choice with no change in the code.
- Novoinvent Softwares Pvt. Ltd. (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Jul. 2017 - Sep. 2017)
- Software Engineer
- Worked on a US government insurance project for the state of Maryland, “Maryland Health Connection” which is the state’s official health insurance marketplace for individuals and families to compare and enrol in health insurance.
- Software Development Centre - Software Incubator. (Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Aug. 2014 - May 2017)
- Student Co-ordinator/ Software Engineer
- Developed a Biometric Attendance System for the faculty and staff of Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (AKGEC), Ghaziabad.
- Developed and maintained more than 10 portals, websites and platforms related to AKGEC.
- Web Team Member, Event Organiser: Tech Trishna’15, the annual national technical festival of AKGEC, which saw a footfall of 1500+ participants.
- Developed an online registration and slot booking portal in the Blood Donation Camp, 2016 & 2017.
- My Own Space Research Consultancy. (Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Jun. 2016 - Jul. 2016)
- Student Intern
- Designed and developed a website that provides an easy solution to buyers for accessing reviews for any property and helps them make the correct decision.
- Sarvodya Ventures. (Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Jun. 2015)
- Student Intern
- Worked on a live portal that connects transporters, truck drivers, customers and other related entities.
Academic Service
Reviewer for Conferences:
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering
Reviewer for Journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Human-Machine Systems, Multimedia, Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- Information Fusion, Knowledge-Based Systems
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Neural Computing & Applications
Honors & Achievements
- Keynote Speaker, National Conference on Emerging Technologies (AI, ML & DS) [Mar. 2026]
- Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2025 (Top ~6% reviewers) [May 2025]
- Best Technology Award, Indian Institute of Technology Indore [Feb. 2025]
- Best Research Paper Award, Indian Institute of Technology Indore [Feb. 2024]
- Recipient, Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) [Aug. 2021 – Aug. 2025]
- Rank 1 & Perfect CGPA (10/10), M.S. (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering