# Praroop Chanda

> Graduate Research Assistant @ Texas A&M | Deloitte | GSoC '22

Location: College Station, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/praroop

I am a Master’s student at Texas A&M University, currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Visual and Spatial AI Lab under Prof. Suryansh Kumar. My research focuses on dense prediction  problems, including optical flow, stereo matching, and depth estimation. Also, lately i have been also focusing on Vision Language models (VLM's) for solving perception tasks.

My research interests include computer vision, foundation models, and vision-language models.

I am actively seeking Summer 2026 internships/full time in computer vision, machine learning and LLM's.

## Work Experience
### Graduate Research Assistant @ Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts
Jan 2025 – Present | College Station, Texas, United States
Graduate researcher at the Visual and Spatial Gradient Lab under Prof. Suryansh Kumar, focusing on continual learning for optical flow, stereo, and depth estimation. Developing models to enhance knowledge transfer and mitigate catastrophic forgetting in multi-task learning scenarios.

### Cloud Engineer @ Deloitte
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Implemented end-to-end CRUD APIs for a CQRS pattern-based microservices application, optimizing data flow and enabling
the system to handle over 10,000 requests per minute with minimal latency, significantly boosting system responsiveness.
• Spearheaded the refactoring of legacy .Net framework code to .Net core for inhouse applications, attaining a 30% increase in
application performance and reducing the technical debt.
• Developed unit test cases with Xunit, increasing code coverage from 15% to 85%, strengthening code reliability.
• Redesigned and optimized SQL code to seamlessly integrate new business logic, boosting search response times by 70%,
which revamped user experience and operational efficiency.

### Contributor @ Google Summer of Code
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Selected as a GSoC Contributor by Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University.

### R&D Head (Student Project Team) @ AeroMIT
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Junior Researcher @ AeroMIT
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Summer Intern @ Robotech Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Summer school cum internship at IIT-Delhi, IoT, ML and Cloud computing.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology

### Foundational Course in BSc in Programming and Data Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/praroop-chanda-b263441a7
- Portfolio: https://praroopchanda.github.io/
- Portfolio: https://praroopchanda.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-18