MACHINE LEARNING GROUP

RPTU KAISERSLAUTERN-LANDAU

Anuj Thareja

Student Assistant (HiWi)

Bio

Anuj Thareja is a Master's student in Computer Science at Rhineland‑Pfalz Technical University (RPTU). Since June 2024 he has been working as a student assistant (HiWi) under the supervision of Saurabh Varshney. His work focuses on leveraging vision–language models for video anomaly detection, aiming to bridge visual and textual representations for enhanced temporal understanding.

Research interests

Multimodal Learning; Video Anomaly Detection; Computer Vision; Vision‑Language Models; Diffusion Models

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

since 2023
Master's in Computer Science, RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany
2016 – 2020
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), New Delhi, India

Professional Experience

May 2024 – Present
Research Assistant, ML Group, RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Oct 2020 – Apr 2023
Software Engineer, Nagarro Pvt. Ltd., India

Key Publications

  • Alzubi, J. A., Jain, R., Alzubi, O., Thareja, A., & Upadhyay, Y. (2022). Distracted driver detection using compressed energy‑efficient convolutional neural network. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 42(2), 1253‑1265.
  • Jain, D. K., Jain, R., Lan, X., Upadhyay, Y., & Thareja, A. (2021). Driver distraction detection using capsule network. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 6183‑6196.