Dr. Lokender Tiwari, Ph.D.

Currently I am heading the computer vision and deep learning department at BotLab Dynamics / Vayudh. Our objective is to build intelligence for drones that makes them robust to challenging scenarios. Our area of interests includes everything related to drone vision and intelligence ranging from autonomous navigation, object detection, tracking, obstacle avoidance, sensor fusion, generative simulations etc.

Prior to this I was Principal Investigator/Senior Research Scientist at TCS Research, where I lead a group of reseachers @ TCS Research, IIT-Delhi R&I Park, towards advancing the field of Spatial Computing. Prior to joining TCS Research, I worked at NEC Laboratories America, with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker, Dr. Quoc-Huy Tran, and Dr. Pan Ji on self-improving framework for SLAM. I received my PhD from IIIT-Delhi, with the Doctoral Dissertation Award. I was advised by Dr. Saket Anand and funded by prestegious Visvesvarya PhD fellowship. I am the recipient of Chancellor’s Gold Medal for academic excellence in B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) 2008-2012.

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Research Interests

Geometric 3D Perception (SLAM, Depth etc)
Real-time object detection, tracking, obstacle avoidance etc
Generative 3D Modeling and Synthesis
Neural Physics Based Simulation and Synthesis
Robust and Reliable Deep Learning
Differentiable Graphics and Inverse Rendering
Physics Aware AR/VR/XR

Tutorials / Workshops / Courses - Organized and Presented

[ Tutorial at ICVGIP, 2025 , IIT Mandi ] - Visual SLAM for Autonomous Driving and Flying [ Webpage ]
[ Tutorial at PREMI, 2025 , IIT Delhi ] - Foundations of Diffusion Models for Visual Content Generation [ Webpage ]
[ Special Track at ISVC, 2025 , LAS Vegas, NV ] - Data-Efficient Visual Computing for Environmental and Social Good [ Webpage ]
[ Course at IIT Delhi, 2025 ] - Special Module Course on Generative AI (Image, Video, 3D) [ Webpage ]
[ Tutorial at 3D Vision Summer School 2024 ] - Text-to-3D Diffusion Models [ Webpage ]
[ Workshop COMSNETS, 2024 ] - Connected Vehicles and Autonomous Driving Workshop [ Webpage ]
[ Tutorial at ICVGIP, 2024 ] - 3D Garment Modeling & Animation [ Webpage ]

Invited Talks/Keynotes

[ July, 2025 ] Invited talk on Generative AI for 3D at 9th Summer School on AI at IIIT-Hyderabad
[ May, 2024 ] Invited talk on Unboxing Deep Neural Networks using Information Theory at VIT- Vellore
[ Dec, 2023 ] Invited Guest Judge for the Project Showcase Event at Bennett University
[ Jan, 2023 ] Invited talk on Robust Scene Understanding at 43rd Kaggle Days Meetup Delhi-NCR
[ Nov, 2022 ] Invited talk on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Classical to Leaning Based) at IIT-Delhi hosted by Prof. Chetan Arora
[ Oct, 2022 ] Invited talk on Metaverse: Current and The Future, a Visual Computing Perspective at Sushant University
[ Oct, 2021 ] Keynote talk on Scene Understanding at BITCON 2021, BITS Durg

Awards

Best Oral Paper Award @ ICVGIP, 2025.
Received Young Scientist Research Award, 2023.
Received Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2021
IEEE WACV 2018 Ph.D. Forum Award. Mentor: Prof. Terrance Boult
Best Doctoral Symposium Award (3rd), ICVGIP'2016
2nd Prize, Poster Session, Research Showcase 2017 @ IIIT-Delhi
IEEE Signal Processing Society, Travel Award to attend IEEE ICIP 2016
Visvesvarya Ph.D. Fellowship award, Jul 2014- Dec 2019
MHRD Graduate Fellowship, GATE (Top 4% in India), Jul 2012- Jun 2014
Chancellor's Gold Medal for academic excellence in undergraduate B.Tech CSE., 2008-2012

Mentoring (Industry/Academic)

[Industry Intern, 2025] Preet Savallia (B.Tech CSAI, IIT-Jodhpur) [ ]
[Industry Intern, 2025] Kunal Bhosikar ( B.Tech + MS Research, IIIT-Hyderabad) [ ]
[Industry Intern, 2025] Sreehari Rajan ( B.Tech + MS Research, IIIT-Hyderabad) [ ]
[Industry Intern] Harsh Singh (B.Tech, IIIT-Delhi) [now Researcher at TCS Research]
[Industry Intern] Richik Sarkar (B.Tech, Kharagpur) [now Researcher at TCS Research]
[Industry Intern] Amogh Tiwari (B.Tech + MS, IIIT-Hyderabad) [now Ph.D Candidate at INRIA, Grenoble]
[Thesis mentoring] Karan Tanwar (B.Tech + M.Tech, IIT-Delhi) [Now SDE at AMAZON]
[Thesis mentoring] Suraj Patni (MS Research (AI), IIT-Delhi) [Now AI/ML Engineer at Qualcomm]
[Industry PhD Intern] Munender Varshney (Ph.D, IIT-Kanpur) [Now Research Scientist at Hitachi R&D India]
[Industry PhD Intern] B.V Raghav (Ph.D, IIT-Kanpur) [Now Assistant Professor at Thapar University]
[Researcher Mentoring] Sushovan Chanda (Ph.D, IIT-Kanpur) [Now PhD student @ University of Göttingen]

Professional Services (Programm Commitee Member and Reviewer)

CVPR, ICCV, ICML, ICLR, WACV, ICME, AAAI, COMSNETS, CVIU, TCSVT, ISMAR, CGF, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors etc..