Shariq Farooq Bhat obtained his BS degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India in 2018. He worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Harman International, Samsung, until joining KAUST in Spring 2020 obtaining his MS degree in 2021. He is currently a CS PhD student working under the guidance of Prof. Peter Wonka. During his PhD, he worked as a Research intern at Intel, Germany in 2022 and as a Visiting Researcher at UCL, London in 2023.

Education and Early Career

Shariq Farooq Bhat obtained his bachelor of technology degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India in 2018.

During bachelor’s degree, he was an intern at Texas Instruments (TI) Center for Embedded Product Design at NSIT in New Delhi. Then, in 2016, he worked at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as a computer vision and deep learning research Intern and later as a remote part-time researcher.

Later in 2018, Shariq Farooq Bhat joined Harman International as a Machine Learning Engineer until joining KAUST for MS/PhD in Spring 2020.

Research Interest

He is interested in Machine learning, Computer vision, and Deep learning.

Honors and Awards

Shariq Farooq Bhat was awarded for innovation at Harman International in 2018 for making the software development cycle more efficient using Machine Learning.

Professional Memberships

B.Sc. in Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India ,2018.