Asha Rani

I am a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Jodhpur, advised by Dr. Yashaswi Verma. My thesis — "Label Similarity Guided Joint Feature Learning Using Multi-View and Multi-Source Data" (submitted August 2025) — develops unified frameworks that exploit label structure across multiple data views and modalities.

I have published in Q1/Q2 journals and presented at WACV 2024 (Hawaii, USA), supported by ANRF International Travel Support and WACV DEI Travel Grant.

Research Interests

Multimodal & Multi-view Learning

Joint feature learning across heterogeneous data sources and modalities using canonical correlation and contrastive methods.

Multi-label & Extreme Classification

Scalable classification over large label spaces with random feature embeddings and label-similarity guidance.

Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

Early-stage ASD detection from action/activity videos using multi-dataset contrastive learning.

Cross-modal Multimedia Retrieval

Dual-correlation CCA models for cross-modal matching between text and visual content.

News & Updates

May 2026 Paper on Multi-view Multi-label CCA with Dual Correlations published in International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (Q1).
Jan 2026 Paper on Random Feature Embeddings for Extreme Multi-label Text Classification published in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (Q2).
2025 Paper on Multi-view multi-label CCA for cross-modal retrieval published in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Q1).
Aug 2025 PhD thesis submitted at IIT Jodhpur.
Jan 2024 Presented at WACV 2024, Waikoloa, Hawaii. Supported by ANRF ITS & WACV DEI Travel Grants.

Education

M.Tech – Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
Advisor: Dr. Yashaswi Verma

July 2019 – June 2026
CGPA: 7.78/10

PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics
C-DAC's Advanced Computing Training School, Pune

Feb – July 2019
77.38%

B.Tech (Honours), Computer Science & Technology
Govt. Mahila Engineering College, Ajmer (RTU, Kota)

Aug 2014 – June 2018
75.74%

Selected Awards & Honours

ANRF (formerly SERB) International Travel Support — to present at IEEE/CVF WACV 2024
WACV 2024 DEI Travel Support — Diversity, Equity & Inclusion award
Travel Grant, CODS-COMAD, IIT Bombay (2023)
IndoML Travel Grant, IndoML Symposium, IIT Gandhinagar (2022)
MHRD Scholarship for pursuing higher studies (2019–2024)
GATE 2019 — Qualified, Computer Science