Aviral Chharia | PhD Student, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

About Me

I am a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. I completed my Master's degree from CMU in 2024. Previously, I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in 2022, advised by Prof. Rahul Upadhyay, and Prof. Vinay Kumar. I also spent a year as an MITACS Fellow at The University of British Columbia, working with Prof. Apurva Narayan and as a Research Assistant with Prof. Min Xu. I focus on Computer Vision, Digital Humans, and Computational Biology.

Looking for self-motivated students for collaborations. Feel free to send me an email!

News and Updates

Oct 2025: Awarded the Uber Presidential Fellowship 2025!
Sep 2025: Started my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University!
Feb 2025: One paper accepted to CVPR 2025
Aug 2024: One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024
Jun 2023: One paper accepted to IJCNN 2023
Feb 2023: Two papers accepted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering

Publications

Computer Vision and Digital Humans

	MV-SSM: Multi-View State Space Modeling for 3D Human Pose Estimation A. Chharia, W. Gou, H. Dong CVPR 2025 Paper Web Video
	Hamba: Single-view 3D Hand Reconstruction with Graph-guided Bi-Scanning Mamba H. Dong, A. Chharia*, W. Gou, F. Vicente Carrasco, F. De la Torre NeurIPS 2024 Paper Web Video Code Ranked #1 on 2 Competition Leaderboards!
	Human-VDM: Learning Single-Image 3D Human Gaussian Splatting from Video Diffusion Models Z. Liu, H. Dong, A. Chharia, H. Wu ArXiv 2024 Paper Web Video Code
	Safe-Construct: Redefining Construction Safety Violation Recognition as 3D Multi-View Engagement Task A. Chharia, T. Ren, T. Furuhata, K. Shimada CVPR Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild 2025 Paper Web Video

AI for Computational Biology

	cAPTured: Neural Reflex Arc-Inspired Fuzzy Continual Learning for Capturing in Silico Aptamer-Target Protein Interactions A. Chharia, R. Saran, A. Narayan International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2023 Paper Project
	Deep-Precognitive Diagnosis: Preventing Future Pandemics by Novel Disease Detection With Biologically-Inspired Conv-Fuzzy Network A. Chharia, R. Upadhyay, V. Kumar, C. Cheng, J. Zhang, T. Wang, M. Xu IEEE Access 2022 Paper Project Talk Oral at NeurIPS 2021 ML in Public Health!
	Accuracy of US CDC COVID-19 Forecasting Models A. Chharia, G. Jeevan, R. A. Jha, M. Liu, J. Berman, C. Glorioso Frontiers in Public Health 2022 Paper
	A novel fuzzy approach to Antimicrobial Peptide Activity Prediction: A tale of limited & imbalanced data A. Chharia, R. Upadhyay, V. Kumar NeurIPS AI4Science 2021 Paper
	From Convolutions towards Spikes: Environmental Metric that the Community currently misses A. Chharia, S. Chauhan, R. Upadhyay, V. Kumar NeurIPS AI4Science & NeurIPS Human-Centered AI 2021 Paper
	A Cognitively-Inspired Incremental Learning based de novo model for Breast Cancer Prognosis by Multi-Omics Data Fusion A. Chharia, N. Kumar MICCAI Predictive Intelligence in Medicine 2021 Paper Project
	A novel fuzzy approach towards in silico B-cell epitope identification inducing antigen-specific immune response A. Chharia, A. Narayan IEEE 21st International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE) 2021 Paper

AI for Computational Neuroscience

	PyNoetic: A Modular Python Framework for No-code development of EEG Brain-Computer Interfaces G. Singh, A. Chharia, R. Upadhyay, V. Kumar, L. Longo PLoS One 2025 Paper Project Code Covered by 10 Major Newspapers across Europe!
	Schizo-Net: A novel Schizophrenia Diagnosis Framework Using Late Fusion Multimodal Learning on EEG Brain Connectivity Indices N. Grover, A. Chharia, R. Upadhyay, L. Longo IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 2023 Paper Web
	How Visual Stimuli evoked P300 is transforming the Brain-Computer Interface Landscape J. Kalra, P. Mittal, N. Mittal, A. Arora, U. Tewari, A. Chharia, R. Upadhyay, V. Kumar, L. Longo IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 2023 Paper

Code and Star History

Scholastic Achievement and Awards

2025: Uber Presidential Fellowship
2025: Tartan Research Data Alliance Fellowship
2024: ATK-Nick G. Vlahakis Graduate Fellowship (3 CMU grad students)
2020-22: Dean's Merit List Scholarship (~50% Tuition Waiver)
2022: MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship (Financial Support for MS/ PhD/ Postdoc in Canada)
2021: MITACS Globalink Research Fellowship
2021: IIT Kanpur Student's Undergraduate Research Graduate Excellence (<4% acceptance)
2020: Winner, University of Queensland Engineering Design Hackathon
2016: World Rank 264, International Olympiad of Mathematics

Teaching Assistant

24-788 Intro to Deep Learning (Spring 2024)
24-799 Intermediate Deep Learning (Spring 2024)
24-787 Machine Learning & AI for Engineers (Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
24-675 Humanoid Robotics & Cognition (Fall 2022)

Coursework

11-785 Intro to Deep Learning
16-701 Intro to Human Robot Interaction
16-811 Mathematical Fundamentals of Robotics
16-820 Advanced Computer Vision
16-823 Physics-based Methods in Vision
24-703 Numerical Methods in Engineering
24-784 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
24-787 Machine Learning & AI for Engineers