CVG Members Recognized as Best Reviewers for top AI Conferences

Doctoral researchers within CSEE's Cognitive Vision Group (CVG) have been recognized in 2026 as best reviewers by premier conferences in computer vision, natural language processing, and neural networks. CVG is directed by Dr. Tejas Gokhale, Assistant Professor in CSEE.
 
Sourajit Saha, PhD student working on video understanding and multimodal information retrieval received the distinction of "Great Reviewer" at ACL 2026 -- the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.  Earlier in the summer, Sourajit also received the "Outstanding Reviewer Award" at CVPR 2026 -- the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.  

Shivanand Kundargi, also a PhD student with CVG, working on concept learning and metacognition, was recognized as a "Top Reviewer" at NeurIPS 2026 -- the 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

These accolades reflect the quality of CVG's doctoral students and their commitment to fostering scholarly excellence across the broader AI research community.