Amandeep Kumar, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded an Amazon inaugural AI PhD Fellowships, a new, competitive national program that supports doctoral research in artificial intelligence.
Kumar is a member of the Visual Intelligence and Understanding (VIU) Lab and is advised by Vishal Patel, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research focuses on computer vision and generative AI, with an emphasis on understanding the fundamental limitations of large-scale image and video generation models, with the goal of improving their performance and efficiency.
The Amazon AI PhD Fellowship program provides doctoral candidates with tuition, a stipend, research funding, mentorship from Amazon scientists, and cloud-computing credits. Each fellow is paired with an Amazon research liaison whose expertise aligns with the student’s work.
Johns Hopkins is one of nine universities selected for the program, which will support more than 100 PhD students nationwide and represents an investment of nearly $68 million over two years. Several Whiting School of Engineering doctoral students were chosen in the program’s inaugural year.