Ph.D. Candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences with Prof. Manuel Gomez-Ramirez at the Haptics Lab, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Featured Coursework: Sensory Systems, Neuron Circuit and Systems, Cellular Neuroscience, Advanced Computational Neuroscience

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi

Featured Coursework: Visual Perception and Brain, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation & Modeling, Pattern Recognition, Distributed Systems

"Flexible Perception of Tactile Motion in Multiple Reference Frames", H. Ahuja, S.K. Shivkumar, C. Feistritzer, R. Haefner, G.C. DeAngelis, M. Gomez-Ramirez. LINK.

"Tactile Motion Coordinate Transforms in the Somatosensory System", , R. Haefner, G.C. DeAngelis, M. Gomez-Ramirez, LINK , PRESENTATION.

"Unified Graph Based Multi-Cue Feature Fusion for Robust Visual Tracking", G.S. Walia, H.Ahuja, A. Kumar, N. Bansal, K. Sharma, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 50(6), 2357-2368 LINK.

"Supported Matrix Factorization using Distributed Representations for Personalized Recommendations on Twitter", A. Kumar, H. Ahuja, ..., Rodrigues JPC, 2018 Computer \& Electrical Engineering, Vol. 71, Elsevier, pp. 569-577, LINK.

"Breast Cancer Detection using Low-Computation-Based Collaborating Forward-Dependent Neural Networks", Notes in Network Systems, vol.39 Springer, Singapore, K.Sanwal, H. Ahuja, LINK.

"Detection of Malicious Transactions in Databases using Dynamic Sensitivity and Weighted Rule-Mining" ICIIECS, pp. 1-8, I. Singh, S. Sareen, H.Ahuja LINK .

"Neural Interationcs of motion and proprioception in touch", Society for Neuroscience 2023, Washington, D.C. POSTER.

"Neural computational models underlying coordinate transforms of motion representations in touch", Society for Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, California. POSTER.

"Coordinate Transforms Mediating Tactile Motion Representations", International Multi-sensory research forum 2022, Ulm, Germany POSTER.

"Multisensory interactions mediating motion perception on the hand", University of Rochester Medical Center Summer Poster Session 2021. POSTER.

"How does previous trial experience affect neural activity in different brain regions? Steinmetz Dataset", Neuromatch Academy 2020. SLIDES.

"Coordinate transform mechanisms mediating tactile motion representations on the hand", Center for Visual Science Retreat Poster Session, University of Rochester

"Exploring simulation-based inference methods for model fitting - Case Study on Sequential Neural Posterior Estimation", Data Science Colloquium, University of Rochester

Computational Fact-Checking through Relational Similarity based Path Mining", AMS Contributed Paper Joint Mathematical Meet 2019. POSTER.

Research work at conduent

Research Intern, UCLA Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) & Praedicat Inc. Mentors: Dr. Stephen DeSalvo, Dr. Susana Serna. Designed a novel logic-based algorithm, for computational fact-checking on Knowledge Graphs. Our team constructed a self-supervised extraction, classification and fact-checking framework for credibility inference. Github

Research Intern, Defense Research & Development Organization, India. Supervisor: Dr. Gurjit Walia. Designed a novel fusion strategy combining multiple image features, updated on every frame using a fuzzy SVM model and tree-bagging. Tested performance of the proposed algorithm against other state-of-the-art architectures on the VOT-2016 and OTB-50/100 benchmark.

Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship from School of Arts Science and Engineering at University of Rochester for a strong research record as well as a clear commitment to mentoring, outreach and service

NRT-DESE: Graduate Training in Data-Enabled Research into Human Behavior and its Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms, Conference Attendance Grant to World Haptics Conference 2021, Award ID: 1449828

RIPS-NSF Intern Fellowship. Project: "Computational Fact-Checking through Relational Similarity based Path Mining". Award ID: DMS-0931852.

"Gradient based Boundary Attack for Targeted Adversarial Perturbations", Adversarial Vision Competition: Targeted Adversarial Attacks, NeurIPS 2018 (Top-10 Submissions), Leaderboard, Team Name: babahooja