*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*: Sim2Real and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Foundation Models for Robot Control and Factory Coordination *Fellowship Details* * Fellowship Amount: The fellowship will provide a stipend of INR 37,000/- + 27% HRA per month. Fellowship will be enhanced after completing 4 years. * Research scholars will receive domestic and international travel support and contingency funds for project work. *Eligibility Criteria*: B.Tech/M.Tech in the relevant field of CS/EE/ECE/other relevant. 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@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]