Research Overview The Wipro WIN Research Fellowship supports PhD enrolment at BITS Pilani to pursue cutting-edge research, drive technological innovation and enhance WIN’s competitive edge in smart technologies, sustainability, and cross-domain solutions. Research Topic/ Project 1: Sim2Real and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Foundation Models for Robot Control and Factory Coordination Research Topic/ Project 2: Development of SIL Safety-Rated Vision-Based Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Navigation Without LiDAR Fellowship Details Fellowship Amount: The fellowship will provide a stipend of INR 37,000/- + 27% HRA per month. Fellowship will be enhanced after completing 2 years. Research scholars will receive domestic and international travel support and contingency funds for project work. Eligibility Criteria: Experience in Python and Pytorch. Having exposure to robotics/ computer vision will be a plus. Deadline: till the position is available How to apply: Interested candidates with the above-mentioned qualifications and relevant experience can send their CV giving detailed information about the educational qualifications, research experience and published research papers, if any, to abhijit.das(a)hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in. Best regards Abhijit ------------------ --------------------- ---- -------------------- *Dr.** Abhijit Das, * PhD, SMIEEE, LMIUPRAI, Member APPCAIR <https://appcair.com/applied-ai-faculty.html> Lead Investigator, Machine Intelligence Group <https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/mig/home> Assistant Professor. <https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/mig/home> <https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/mig/home> H112, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. *Organising Chair:* 1st Workshop on Computer Vision for Biometrics, Identity and Behaviour (CV4BIB 2025) at ICCV 2025. *Competition Co-Chairs: *IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2026) *Sponsorship** Co-Chairs: *6th Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML 2025) *Area chair: *23rd IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2026) *Contact no:* +914066303744 (O) *Website: *https://sites.google.com/site/dasabhijit2048/home *▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄**▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄**▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄* [image: Visit Hyderabad Campus]