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

Education

PhD · Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Colorado Boulder

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

B.Tech. (Hons.) · 2019 to 2023

IIT Hyderabad

Electrical Engineering, with research across image processing, speech and ASR, and multimodal AI.

Software Developer 2

Oracle

Distributed cloud control-plane, reliability, and fleet-management systems.

Student Associate · 2022 to 2023

GPAI

Built a collaboration platform for global AI research communities.

Project Intern · 2021

WiSig Networks

5G NR physical-layer modules and hardware IP for system-on-chip design.

Winter Intern · 2021 to 2022

DRDO

Machine-learning methods for radar signal processing and PRI estimation.

Founding Engineer · Early stage

CloudGlance

Helped establish the early engineering foundations for AI-assisted document intelligence.

Volunteer

Bitshala

Contribute to Bitcoin FOSS developer education and open technical learning.

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.

News

  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.

Notes and thoughts are coming soon.