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Sanyam Jain
I am a PhD student in Generative AI at the
Department of Dentistry and Oral Health,
Aarhus University,
Denmark (2024 - present), working with
Prof. Ruben Pauwels,
Prof. Alexandros Iosifidis, and
Dr. Bruna Neves de Freitas.
My PhD project is on
Synthetic Dental Radiography using Generative AI.
Previously, I completed my MSc in Applied Computer Science (2022 - 2024) at
Østfold University of Applied Sciences, Norway, advised by
Prof. Stefano Nichele,
where I worked on Artificial Life, Cellular Automata, and emergent complexity in Lenia.
I was also a Summer Intern at
NTNU Gjovik (2024) and
OsloMet (2023).
Earlier, I was a Junior Research Fellow at
IIT Jodhpur (2020 - 2022),
part of the VANETs Lab and the QIC group, and I received my BTech in Computer Science from
UPES Dehradun (2015 - 2019).
My research interests include Representation Learning, Generative Models, Computer Vision,
and Medical Imaging, with current focus on diffusion models for dental radiography.
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Water Your Repo, Grow Your Greens!
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News
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[Sep '26]
[Conference]
Delivered an oral presentation and a poster of our work Brain2VLM at the ECCV 2026 workshop on Multimodal Reasoning and Slow
Thinking in the Large Model Era, in Malmo, Sweden. The work analyses how cortical representations align with
the latent spaces of pretrained diffusion-based vision-language models for brain-to-image reconstruction. preprint | project page | code (post)
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[Jul '26]
[Conference]
Presented a poster for our short paper CarDiff: Anatomically-Aware Dental Caries Synthesis using
Diffusion at the 30th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2026 conference in Dublin,
Ireland (20-22 July). The work is on segmentation-conditioned synthesis with diffusion models for dental
caries, which improved the Medium Caries class by +24% with 5x data augmentation. An extended version will
be released as a preprint. (post)
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[Apr '26]
[Talk]
Gave a talk at the University of Jyvaskyla (JYU),
Finland, on my PhD topic Synthetic Dental Imaging using Generative Artificial Intelligence, hosted by
Prof. Jenni Raitoharju. This also wrapped up my three-month PhD stay abroad at Tampere University, where we
investigated model robustness for lifelong learning. (post)
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[Feb '26]
[New Role]
Started as a Visiting PhD Student at Tampere
University, Finland, with Prof. Alexandros Iosifidis and Prof. Ruben
Pauwels. (post)
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[Sep '25]
[Paper]
New preprint led by Johan Andreas Balle
Rubak: Impact of Labeling Inaccuracy and Image Noise on Tooth Segmentation in Panoramic Radiographs using
Federated, Centralized and Local Learning. (post)
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[Mar '25]
[Talk]
Invited as guest speaker on PhD in AI for the Lecture Session at the International Women's Day
Workshop, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
organised by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. (post)
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[Feb '25]
[Paper]
Our article Pano-GAN: A Deep Generative Model for Panoramic Dental Radiographs was published in Journal of Imaging, 11(2), 41 - a
bachelor's project that grew into a new research direction on synthetic data generation in Dentistry and
Oral Health. (post)
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[Jan '25]
[Talk]
Gave my first presentation at Aarhus University, titled
Synthetic Generation of Panoramic Radiographs, as part of PhD Day 2025. (post)
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[Dec '24]
[Paper]
Our paper Shaving Beard or Applying Eye Makeup? Analysing How Frequently Pretrained VLMs Fail was
accepted as a short paper at VISAPP 2025
(Porto, Portugal). The work came out of my summer internship at the Educational Technology Research
Laboratory, NTNU, with Dr. Vijeta Sharma and Prof.
Deepti Mishra. (post)
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[Sep '24]
[New Role]
Started as a PhD Student at the Department of Dentistry
and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. (post)
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[Aug '24]
[Outreach]
Visited the Career Development Cell at the Indian
Institute of Technology Dharwad to mentor students on emerging directions in Machine Learning and AI.
(post)
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[Jul '24]
[New Role]
Happy to share that I will start my PhD at Aarhus
University on Generative Deep Learning for Medical Imaging, after finishing my MSc in Applied
Computer Science at Ostfold University of Applied
Sciences, Norway. (post)
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[May '24]
[Conference]
Attended and presented at ICAPAI 2024 in Halden, Norway (16 April), and wrote up a summary of the
talks and the conference. Thanks to the ICAPAI committee, HiOf and IFE Halden for organising. (post)
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[Mar '24]
[Paper]
Two of my single-author papers were accepted at ICAPAI 2024, published in IEEE conference
proceedings (Level 1 in the Norwegian system): Adversarial Attack on YOLOv5 for Traffic and
Road Sign Detection and DeepSeaNet: Improving Underwater Object
Detection using EfficientDet. (post)
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Pano-GAN: A Deep Generative Model for Panoramic Dental Radiographs
S Pedersen, S Jain, M Chavez, V Ladehoff, B N de Freitas, R Pauwels
Journal of Imaging, 11(2), 41, 2025
paper
Develops a generative adversarial network for synthesizing panoramic dental
radiographs, evaluated for clinical realism by dental experts. The work demonstrates
the potential of GAN-based synthesis for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets.
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Adversarial Attack on YOLOv5 for Traffic and Road Sign Detection
S Jain
4th International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAPAI), 2024
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code
Studies the robustness of YOLOv5 on traffic sign detection under a range of
adversarial attacks including L-BFGS, FGSM, C&W, BIM, PGD, One Pixel Attack,
and Universal Adversarial Perturbations, and analyzes their effect on detection accuracy.
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Capturing Emerging Complexity in Lenia
S Jain, A Shrestha, S Nichele
Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), 2023
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portal
Explores emergent complexity in Lenia, a continuous cellular automaton, using
evolutionary fitness measures based on Variance over Time (VoT), Autoencoder
reconstruction (AE), and a combined AEVoT criterion to discover novel life-like patterns.
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PhD Student, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University
Supervisors:
Prof. Ruben Pauwels,
Prof. Alexandros Iosifidis,
Dr. Bruna Neves de Freitas
Sep 2024 - Present · Aarhus, Denmark
AI in Health at the School of Dentistry (Tandlægeskolen), part of the IOOS Intelligent
Systems – ML Group. Working on Synthetic Dental Radiography using Generative AI: diffusion
and GAN-based models for panoramic radiograph synthesis, super-resolution, simulation of rare
anatomies, and downstream clinical evaluation.
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Tampere University
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Visiting PhD Student, Tampere University
With Prof. Alexandros Iosifidis
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026 · Tampere, Finland
Three-month research stay investigating model robustness for lifelong learning, alongside
an invited talk at the University of Jyväskylä.
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Summer Research Intern, NTNU
Educational Technology Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 · Remote
Computer Vision and Vision-Language Models for educational applications, with
Dr. Vijeta Sharma and Prof. Deepti Mishra. Led to a short paper at VISAPP 2025 on
how frequently pretrained VLMs fail on fine-grained action recognition.
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Research Assistant (Forskningsassistent), Østfold University of Applied Sciences
Supervisor:
Prof. Stefano Nichele
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023 and Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 · Halden, Norway
Open-endedness, Artificial General Intelligence and biologically inspired AI paradigms.
Research across discrete and continuous cellular automata using evolutionary computation,
alongside the MSc programme.
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Research Assistant, TKD/IT, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Supervisor:
Prof. Stefano Nichele
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 (full-time), Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (part-time) · Oslo, Norway
Studying and analysing complexity in discrete cellular automata and capturing emergent
behaviour using evolutionary computation, extending into Lenia and Neural CA.
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Junior Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant, IIT Jodhpur
Coursework with
Dr. Mayank Vatsa,
Dr. Richa Singh;
part of
VANETs Lab
under Dr. Debasis Das
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022 · Jodhpur, India
Fellowship awarded through GATE 2020. Research in Machine Learning, Deep Learning,
Generative Adversarial Networks and Explainable / Dependable AI, in the Quantum
Information and Computation group.
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Earlier Industry Experience
- Alexa Developer, Keyring Corp (AWS Activate startup), 2019 - Aug 2020, Mumbai, India.
Voice-driven AI and conversational interfaces; published Alexa skills reaching 100k+ users,
and custom Alexa Skills / Google Actions for businesses.
- RPA Consultant (self-employed), Feb 2019 - Jul 2020, India.
UiPath Advanced Certified (UiRPA, UiARD); built learning plans, certification guidance
and RPA automation setups for startups and professionals.
- Data Analysis Trainee, Fiserv, Jul 2019 - Sep 2019, Bengaluru, India.
Campus placement from UPES Dehradun.
- Software Engineering Intern, YellowAnt, May 2018 - Jul 2018, Bangalore, India.
- Remote Intern, IBM Watson Offline, May 2018 - Jul 2018.
- Technical Team Lead, UPES ACM Student Chapter, Oct 2016 - Sep 2017, Dehradun, India.
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Teaching Assistant, IIT Jodhpur
Machine Learning · Winter 2022 (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
Course instructor: Dr. Richa Singh
Prepared assignments and quizzes covering decision trees, information gain,
Bayesian inference and model evaluation.
Foundations of Quantum Information and Computation · Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Course instructors: Dr. Subhashish Banerjee, Dr. Atul Kumar, Dr. V. Narayan
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Invited Lecture, IIT Roorkee
International Women's Day Workshop, Department of Computer Science and Engineering · March 2025
Guest speaker on PhD in AI, hosted by Prof. Sugata Gangopadhyay and sponsored by
the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
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Research Mentoring
I supervise and collaborate with students on medical-imaging and generative-modelling
projects, from framing the research question through experiments to manuscript preparation.
Recent work includes
Brain2VLM and
SkinGenBench with
N A Adarsh Pritam, master's theses on medical image segmentation, and mentoring at
IIT Roorkee on machine learning
fundamentals, GANs and diffusion models.
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Outreach
Mentored students on emerging directions in Machine Learning and AI at the Career
Development Cell, IIT Dharwad (Aug 2024),
and wrote up conference summaries from ICAPAI 2024 for the wider community.
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Brain2VLM Project Page
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paper |
code
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Interactive page for Brain2VLM, with a clickable cortex explorer that contrasts the
linear and nonlinear decoding regimes, a step-through of the reconstruction pipeline, a
drag-to-compare view of reconstructions from subj01, and live ablation and latent-space
plots drawn from the paper's own data.
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EvoLenia Portal
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portal |
paper
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Interactive portal for exploring emergent creatures discovered in the Lenia
cellular automaton via evolutionary search. Built with HTML/JS to visualize
evolution runs, fitness landscapes, and discovered patterns.
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DeepSeaNet Portal
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portal |
paper
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Project page for DeepSeaNet, presenting underwater object detection results on
Denmark's Brackish dataset using EfficientDet with cross-validation and qualitative
comparisons across baselines.
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MNCA Portal - Frequency Histogram Coarse Graining
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paper
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Studies complexity and emergent behaviour in elementary CA, discrete CA, and 2D
Multi-Neighborhood Cellular Automata, with a frequency histogram based coarse-graining
method to characterize pattern formation.
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GradCAM YOLO
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code
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Implementation of Grad-CAM visualizations for YOLOv5 and analysis of how
several adversarial attacks (FGSM, PGD, BIM, C&W, One Pixel, UAP) shift
the network's attention on traffic and road sign detection.
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PhD in Generative AI (Dentistry and Oral Health)
(2024 - Present) Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: Synthetic Dental Radiography using Generative Artificial Intelligence
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MSc in Applied Computer Science
(Aug 2022 - Jun 2024) Østfold University of Applied Sciences, Halden, Norway · Grade 8.32 / 10
Thesis: AI Generating Algorithms with Self-Organizing Neural Cellular Automata,
supervised by Prof. Stefano Nichele
- Coursework: Scientific Methods in Computer Science; Machine Learning
(Roland Olsson, Stefano Nichele); Applied Computer Science Project (A);
Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (A); Evolutionary Computation (A).
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Direct PhD Programme, Quantum Information and Computation (discontinued)
(Aug 2020 - Jul 2022) Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India · Grade 7.8 / 10
Admitted through GATE 2020; left to take up the MSc in Norway.
- Coursework: Machine Learning (Dr. G. Harit); Advanced Machine Learning (Dr. M. Vatsa, A);
Deep Learning (Dr. M. Vatsa); Dependable AI (Dr. R. Singh, A-); Artificial Intelligence
(Dr. D. Mishra); Graph Theory and Applications (Dr. A. Mishra); Cryptography
(Dr. S. Sanadhya); Financial Engineering (Dr. V. Vijay, A-); ML for Economics (Dr. D. Brahma).
- Course projects: theoretical analysis of the BB84 QKD protocol and quantum attacks on
blockchain (Qiskit); analysing and improving StyleGAN2 image quality on the HELEN Eye and
Fashion datasets; Random Multimodel Deep Learning for classification; study of adversarial
attacks and the effect of data augmentation on robustness.
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BTech in Computer Science and Engineering
(2015 - 2019) University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India · Grade 7.75 / 10
- Best Project award for Compariso, a WhatsApp bot for comparing e-commerce prices.
- Best Project award, Project Parliament 2018, for facial recognition in cybersecurity.
- Top 10 in R.I.S.E. UPES with KidExa, supervised by Dr. Ravi Tomar.
- Second prize, North India Cyber Security Hackathon (WIC Dehradun), for 4FactorAuthentication.
- Third prize, IBM ICE campus hackathon, for real-time traffic analysis.
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Danish, Module 3 (Danskuddannelse 3)
(Oct 2024 - Present) A2B Sprogskole, Aarhus, Denmark
Modules passed: Du3.1 (Jun 2025), Du3.2 (Dec 2025), Du3.3 (Aug 2026).
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Certifications
- IBM Generative AI Engineering Specialization · IBM, 2026.
Sixteen-course programme covering generative AI foundations and applications, LLM
architecture and data preparation, language modelling with transformers, fine-tuning
and advanced fine-tuning for LLMs, RAG and LangChain, AI agents, deep learning with
Keras, and Python for data science.
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2020) · IIT Delhi, 2020.
- NVIDIA DLI · Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing
Applications (2021); Fundamentals of Deep Learning (2021).
- Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional (Automation 360), 2022.
- UiPath RPA · UiPath, 2019.
- Second Position, Cyber Security Hackathon · Learning Links Foundation, 2018.
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