Vittal Premachandran is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University. He obtained the B.E. degree in Computer Science from Visveswaraya Technological University, India, in 2009, graduating with a First Class with Distinction. He received his Ph.D degree, also in Computer Science, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2014. He has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting researcher at National University of Singapore.

His research interests span computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on semantic analysis of scenes. His work has received the Best Student Paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2013.