Rishit Dagli

I also maintain rishit.tech and write a blog.

I am a CS Freshman at The University of Toronto. I love researching and working with Machine Learning, especially Computer Vision. Coming from the software and robotics background, I contribute extensively to/ maintain popular open-source projects like TensorFlow, PyTorch Foundation, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, PapersWithCode, freeCodeCamp among others. I also love building open-source projects (usually related to Kubernetes and Machine Learning), some of which have been pretty popular which could be found on my GitHub. Seeing my work at a rather young age, I was invited to speak at 2 TEDx and 1 TED-Ed events. Furthermore, I have also represented my country in international olympiads. Feel free to talk with me about anything CS, Math, Robotics, or Physics.

I am advised by Prof. David Lindell as a part of the DGP Lab, Vector Institute at the University of Toronto where I research Diffusion. I am currently working as a Research Intern at Civo Cloud researching vision and multimodal models where I am advised by Josh Mesout.

My research community service can be summarized as being a: program committee member for ICLR Tiny Papers 2023; reviewer for ICLR PML4DC 2023, NeurIPS 2023, Cloud Native Wasm Day, and ICLR 2024.

As to why I got drawn to Computer Vision, I do believe it is one of the richest modalities but also read this excerpt when I was quite young, from the book, “Visual Reconstruction” by Andrew Blake and Andrew Zisserman, some of my favourite researchers:

We count it a great privilege to be working in a field as exciting as Vision. On the one hand there is all the satisfaction of making things that work - of specifying, in mathematical terms, processes that handle visual information and then using computers to bring that mathematics to life. On the other hand there is a sense of awe (when time permits) at the sheer intricacy of creation. Of course it is the Biological scientists who are right in there; but computational studies, in seeking to define Visual processes in mathematical language, have made it clear just how intrinsically complex must be the chain of events that constitutes “seeing something”.

I deeply thank the following organization for current/ in the past supporting my work either through scholarships or research grants or support of some sort: Linux Foundation, Google AI, Google Cloud, University of Toronto, Vector Institute, Stanford, CNCF, and Intel AI.

news

Aug 17, 2023	1 oral + 1 poster accepted to PyTorch Conference.
Mar 15, 2023	Soon joining Civo, a startup as one of the first ML research scientists.
Mar 2, 2023	1 paper accepted to ICLRW.
Jan 17, 2023	Recipient of the Google AI Research Grant for 2023.

selected publications

PyTorch Made Efficient for the Edge: WASI-NN

Rishit Dagli, and Shivay Lamba

In PyTorch Conference, Oct 2023

Bib HTML Poster

@inproceedings{dagli2023ptc,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit and Lamba, Shivay},
  title = {PyTorch Made Efficient for the Edge: WASI-NN},
  booktitle = {PyTorch Conference},
  year = {2023},
  month = oct,
}

Orchestrating Machine Learning on Edge Devices with PyTorch and WebAssembly (Oral)

Rishit Dagli, and Shivay Lamba

In PyTorch Conference, Oct 2023

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{dagli2023ptcoral,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit and Lamba, Shivay},
  title = {Orchestrating Machine Learning on Edge Devices with PyTorch and WebAssembly (Oral)},
  booktitle = {PyTorch Conference},
  year = {2023},
  month = oct,
}

Astroformer: More Data Might Not be All You Need for Classification

Rishit Dagli

In International Conference on Learning Representations Workshops, Apr 2023

Bib HTML PDF

@inproceedings{dagli2023astroformer,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit},
  title = {Astroformer: More Data Might Not be All You Need for Classification},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations Workshops},
  year = {2023},
  month = apr,
}

CPPE-5: Medical Personal Protective Equipment Dataset

Rishit Dagli, and Ali Mustufa Shaikh

SN Computer Science, Mar 2023

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  author = {Dagli, Rishit and Shaikh, Ali Mustufa},
  title = {CPPE-5: Medical Personal Protective Equipment Dataset},
  journal = {SN Computer Science},
  year = {2023},
  month = mar,
  day = {16},
  volume = {4},
  number = {3},
  pages = {263},
  issn = {2661-8907},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-01748-7},
}

Deploying a smart queuing system on edge with Intel OpenVINO toolkit

Rishit Dagli, and Süleyman Eken

Soft Computing, Aug 2021

Bib HTML PDF

@article{Dagli2021,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit and Eken, S{\"u}leyman},
  title = {Deploying a smart queuing system on edge with Intel OpenVINO toolkit},
  journal = {Soft Computing},
  year = {2021},
  month = aug,
  day = {01},
  volume = {25},
  number = {15},
  pages = {10103-10115},
  issn = {1433-7479},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-05891-2},
}

Job Descriptions Keyword Extraction using Attention based Deep Learning Models with BERT

Hussain Falih Mahdi, Rishit Dagli, Ali Mustufa, and 1 more author

In 2021 3rd International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (HORA), Jun 2021

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@inproceedings{9461296,
  author = {Mahdi, Hussain Falih and Dagli, Rishit and Mustufa, Ali and Nanivadekar, Sameer},
  booktitle = {2021 3rd International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (HORA)},
  title = {Job Descriptions Keyword Extraction using Attention based Deep Learning Models with BERT},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-6},
  month = jun,
}

Fast Transformer

Rishit Dagli

Sep 2021

Bib HTML

@software{rishit_dagli_2021_5406025,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit},
  title = {{Fast Transformer}},
  month = sep,
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version = {v0.1.0},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5406025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5406025},
}

Perceiver

Rishit Dagli

Apr 2021

Bib HTML

@software{rishit_dagli_2021_4720376,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit},
  title = {Perceiver},
  month = apr,
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version = {v0.1.2},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4720376},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4720376},
}

Gradient Centralization

Rishit Dagli, and Shaikh Ali Mustufa

Mar 2021

Bib HTML

@software{rishit_dagli_2021_4596292,
  author = {Dagli, Rishit and Mustufa, Shaikh Ali},
  title = {{Gradient Centralization}},
  month = mar,
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version = {v0.0.3},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4596292},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4596292},
}