Kundu Named 2025 Quad Fellow
Adam KohlhaasThursday, August 14, 2025Print this page.
Souraja Kundu, who will join Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department as a Ph.D. student this fall, has been named a 2025 Quad Fellow. She is one of 37 graduate students worldwide selected for the program, which supports studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the United States and Japan.
Now in its third year, the Quad Fellowship fosters academic collaboration among students from the four Quad countries — Australia, India, Japan and the United States — and from 10 Southeast Asian nations. It is administered by the Institute of International Education.
Kundu graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati this past spring with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. Her work focuses on deep learning and computer vision, particularly cross-modal learning, and her research interests include multimodal perception for embodied intelligence, image and video understanding, and energy-efficient cross-modal generative models.
Kundu said she looks forward to collaborating with "multidisciplinary researchers from across the world to apply my Ph.D. research for social good."
Aaron Aupperlee | 412-268-9068 | aaupperlee@cmu.edu