Dr. Rajiv Ratn SHAH

Co-Founder

South Delhi, Delhi, India15 yrs 11 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in multimedia and generative AI research.
  • PhD in Computer Science with a focus on multimodal analysis.
  • Head of MIDAS lab with successful student placements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Multimedia and AI Research Expert with a focus on academic and applied research.

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Social MediaMultimediaNatural Language ProcessingData ScienceMachine LearningDeep LearningData MiningArtificial IntelligenceElasticSearchJavaC++CAndroidAlgorithmsData Structures

About

I work as an Associate Professor and Institute Chair Position Professor at IIIT Delhi, India. I am also the head of MIDAS lab (http://midas.iiitd.edu.in) in IIIT-Delhi. I am looking for motivated students and interns who can work with me at IIIT-Delhi in the area of multimedia and generative AI research. I am looking forward to working with the candidates who have some experience in (any of) these following areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Machine Learning (ML), Multimodal Computing, Deep Neural Networks (DNN), Social Media Computing, and Information Retrieval (IR). Prior joining IIIT Delhi, I have completed my PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof Roger Zimmermann from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. "Leveraging Multimodal Information in Semantics and Sentics Analysis of User-Generated Content" was the title of my PhD thesis. After completing my PhD, I worked as a Research Fellow at Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore. Our work at MIDAS includes machine learning, multimedia content processing, natural language processing, image processing, multimodal computing, data science, social media computing, and the internet of things. Alumnus of MIDAS lab got offers from top institutes in the world for their higher studies.

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Plaksha university

Visiting Associate Professor

Jun 2025Present · 10 mos · Mohali district, India · On-site

  • I have joined Plaksha University as part of my sabbatical. I’m excited about the diverse opportunities this brings — from engaging in research and teaching to translating our work into real-world impact through collaborations with industry and organizations.

Indraprastha institute of information technology, delhi

3 roles

Institute Chair Position Professor

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Associate Professor

Promoted

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Assistant Professor

Nov 2016Jun 2023 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Sony research india

Research Consultant

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

Center for design and new media (cdnm), iiit-delhi

Head

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

Iiitd department of human-centered design

Head Of Department

Jul 2021Jul 2023 · 2 yrs · Delhi, India

Midas-iiitd

Founder and Head

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Singapore management university

Research Fellow

Jan 2017Dec 2017 · 11 mos · Singapore

  • I have joined the LARC group at SMU as a research fellow.

National institute of informatics

Visiting Researcher

Nov 2015Apr 2016 · 5 mos · Tokyo, Japan

  • I have worked with the group of Prof Yi Yu and published the following two papers at the end of the intersnhip.
  • 1. Leveraging Multimodal Information for Event Summarization and Concept-level Sentiment Analysis
  • 2. Concept-Level Multimodal Ranking of Flickr Photo Tags via Recall Based Weighting

Cisco systems france

Visiting Researcher

May 2015May 2015 · 0 mo · Paris Area, France

  • To attend Cisco Video Workshop on DASH.

National tsing hua university

Visiting Researcher

Sep 2014Jan 2015 · 4 mos · Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

  • I have worked with the group of Prof Cheng Hsin Hsu at the National Tsing Hua Univeristy. I have published a paper titled, "NEWSMAN: Uploading Videos over Adaptive Middleboxes to News Servers In Weak Network Infrastructures" in the end of the internship.

Cisco

Visiting Researcher

Jan 2014Jan 2014 · 0 mo · San Jose

  • To attend Cisco Video Workshop on DASH.

National university of singapore

PHD Candidate

Jan 2012Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos · National University of Singapore

  • I have completed my PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof Roger Zimmermann at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the School of Computing. Currently, I am looking for suitable job matching with my profile. My research interest includes multimodal analysis of user-generated content in support of social media applications, location-based services in support of social media applications, and multimedia analysis and retrieval.

Aricent technology

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2008Oct 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Worked in the Development of the project entitled “Customized SIGTRAN Stacks
  • (SCTP/M2PA/M3UA) with Overload Functionality for Alcatel Shanghai Bell“.
  • Platform: Linux/Solaris (implemented in C)
  • Worked in the Development of the project entitled “eGTP(enhanced GPRS Tunneling
  • Protocol) stack Release 1.0.”
  • Platform: Linux/Solaris (implemented in C)
  • Worked in the Development of the project entitled “3G-Simulator” for Movik Networks.
  • Platform: Linux/Solaris (implemented in C++)

Software Trainee

Jan 2008May 2008 · 4 mos

  • Developed the performance measurement tool for Diameter Protocol Stack used for AAA
  • applications.

Education

National University of Singapore

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) — Multimedia

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Delhi College of Engineering

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — CS

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) — CS

Jan 2005Jan 2008

Banaras Hindu University, Banaras

Bachelor of Science (BSc) — Mathematics

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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