Rahul /ɹɑːhuːl/ Ramachandran /ɹɑːmʌtʃʌnðɹʌn/

I'm a Ph.D. student at UIUC passionate about computer science and deep learning.

Previously, I finished my Bachelor's in Computer Science at IIT Hyderabad. I've had the privilege of working with Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian at IITH and with Prof. Amir Zamir at EPFL.

           

profile photo

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2030 (Expected)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor's in Computer Science, 2025
IIT Hyderabad

Research

clean-usnob How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks
Rahul Ramachandran, Ali Garjani, Roman Bachmann, Andrei Atanov*, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar*, Amir Zamir*
Arxiv, 2025

We benchmark top multimodal models like GPT-4o and Gemini on standard vision tasks using a prompt-based framework. While these models are strong generalists, especially on semantic tasks, they still trail behind specialized vision models, particularly in geometry.

clean-usnob On Evaluation of Vision Datasets and Models using Human Competency Frameworks
Rahul Ramachandran, Tejal Kulkarni, Charchit Sharma, Deepak Vijaykeerthy, Vineeth N Balasubramanian
DMLR@ICML, 2024

We use Item Response Theory (IRT) to assess model calibration, select informative data subsets, and demonstrate the usefulness of various latent parameters for analyzing and comparing models and datasets in computer vision.


Stolen from Jon Barron's source code.