PhD student CU Boulder

Building perceptually faithful video—and reliable systems to support it.

I am a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, advised by Prof. Alan C. Bovik in the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE Lab).

My doctoral work is supported by LIVE Lab through a collaboration with the YouTube/Google Media Algorithms team led by Dr. Balu Adsumilli.

Chaitanya Varun standing among colorful paper lanterns

Current questions

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Generative Video

Physically grounded, controllable video synthesis with faithful motion, materials, and behavior.

Visual Quality & Computational Perception

Objective and subjective quality assessment that aligns with human perception.

Video Systems & Infrastructure

Scalable data, training, evaluation, and serving systems for next-generation video models.

Path so far

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  1. IIT Hyderabad · 2023

    B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering. Student researcher across image processing, speech and ASR, and multimodal AI.

  2. Oracle

    Software Developer 2, building reliable distributed cloud control-plane and fleet-management systems.

  3. University of Colorado Boulder

    PhD student advised by Prof. Alan C. Bovik in LIVE Lab.

  1. PhD student in LIVE Lab at CU Boulder, advised by Prof. Alan C. Bovik.

  2. Joined Oracle and began working on distributed cloud control-plane and fleet-management systems.

  3. Completed a B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.

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Selected milestones

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01

IEEE Signal Processing Cup

First runner-up in the 2022 synthetic speech detection challenge.

02

ICASSP 2022

Presented work on voice-source and vocal-tract features for spoofed speech.

03

Flipkart GRID 3.0

Finalist in the national engineering challenge.