I’m a PhD student working in computer vision, having a rather “aloof” PI who isn’t really interested in guiding his students. Furthermore, everyone else in my department is working on unrelated areas, so I don’t have an opportunity to collaborate and learn from them. To cut a long story short, I don’t wish to quit the PhD because I really like the field, but I don’t have the option to switch PIs. Also, I come from a non-CS background, and I know from first-hand experience how hard it is to get into a CS PhD program with a non-traditional background.

With the above premise, I’d really like to do good research and publish at top vision venues like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and I’m looking for mentors/collaborators who have experience doing this:

- I won’t expect much handholding and am capable of doing things with just a little guidance: Though not highly impactful work, I recently worked all on my own (from idea to experiments to writeup) on a paper and got it accepted at a vision conference. In addition to that, I have co-authored a couple other papers as well.

- I won’t take much of your time: A short weekly call to discuss progress and next steps is all I need.

- The idea is that we work on something that interests both of us: I’m open to working on anything as long as it’s vision related. You probably have side ideas that you have had little time to experiment on. I can do the grunt work of implementations and experiments and if it turns out to be publication-worthy, that’s a win for both of us.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, please reach out. :)