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Founding Engineer @ Auric AI Labs | Computer Vision & ML Research
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Building defense AI at Auric AI Labs - developing automatic target recognition systems using SAR imagery and synthetic data generation for aircraft and vehicle detection.
Previously: ML research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Dr. Lexie Yang and Dr. Dalton Lunga, PhD work at Purdue University (ABD). Published researcher in domain adaptation, self-supervised learning, and computer vision for challenging real-world datasets.
Research interests: Object detection, limited data scenarios, domain adaptation, 3D reconstruction, generative models.
H. L. Yang, N. Makkar, M. Laverdiere, and A. Rose, "Boundary-aware adversarial learning domain adaption and active learning for cross-sensor building extraction", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2024.
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N. Makkar, H. L. Yang, and S. Prasad, "Adversarial learning based discriminative domain adaptation for geospatial image analysis", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021.
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D. Lunga, R. Dhamdhere, S. Walters, L. Bragg, N. Makkar, and M. Urban, "Learning to count grave sites for cemetery observation models with satellite imagery", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2020.
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N. Makkar and H. L. Yang, "Entropy and boundary based adversarial learning for large scale unsupervised domain adaptation", in IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, 2020
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X. Deng, H. L. Yang, N. Makkar, and D. Lunga, "Large scale unsupervised domain adaptation of segmentation networks with adversarial learning", in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, 2019.
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Point Cloud Classification in the Wild (2024).
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Impact of Transfer Learning in Extreme Change of Modality - Detecting Cancer Using CNNs (2017).
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