Tejaswi Kasarla
I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Amsterdam, working with Cees Snoek on embodied world models. I am also part of the Openbots project with TNO and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.
Previously, I was an ELLIS PhD student at University of Amsterdam, advised by Pascal Mettes and Rita Cucchiara, where I worked on non-Euclidean representation learning (especially hyperbolic and hyperspherical representation spaces) for open-world recognition and multimodal models. I was a visiting researcher at UNIMORE with Rita Cucchiara and a research intern at Meta FAIR with Pascale Fung. I co-organized the Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) Workshop at CVPR 2021 & 2022 and serve on the WiCV board.
Outside academia, I am a photographer and home barista, always in search of good light and a perfect cup wherever I go!
news
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | I started as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, working on embodied world models with Cees Snoek. |
| Apr 2026 | Our work on Balanced Hyperbolic Embeddings are Natural Out-of-Distribution Detectors is accepted to IJCV! |
| Jan 2026 | Our work on Action100M: A Large-scale Video Action Dataset is available as a preprint on arXiv! |
| Jun 2025 | I joined Meta FAIR in Paris for a six-month research internship on multimodal LLMs and world models. |
| Apr 2025 | I will be a TA for the Foundation Models (FoMo) course at UvA. |
| Mar 2025 | Our work on Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models is accepted to CVPR 2025 as a Highlight! I will be presenting this work in-person at the conference. |
| Jun 2024 | Visiting Rita Cucchiara at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia until September 2024. |
featured publications
NeurIPS 2022 · ★ Oral
Also a contributed talk at WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2022