Ravikumar Balakrishnan

Principal Researcher, Cisco

Joined

September 2021

Names

Ravikumar Balakrishnan (Preferred)

Emails

****@intel.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@hiddenlayer.com (Confirmed)

****@cisco.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Cisco (cisco.com)

2025 – 2026

Principal Researcher

HiddenLayer (hiddenlayer.com)

2024 – 2025

PhD student

ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2011 – 2015

MS student

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2009 – 2011

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ian Akyildiz

2009 – 2015

Expertise

trustworthy machine learning

Present

distributed machine learning

2019 – Present

Publications

Reading Between the Pixels: Linking Text-Image Embedding Alignment to Typographic Attack Success on Vision-Language Models
Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Sanket Mendapara, Ankit Garg
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
VISOR: Visual Input based Steering for Output Redirection in Large Vision Language Models
Mansi Phute, Ravikumar Balakrishnan
- AIR-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VISOR++ : VISUAL INPUT BASED STEERING FOR LARGE VISION LANGUAGE MODELS
Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Mansi Phute
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Buffer-based Gradient Projection for Continual Federated Learning
Shenghong Dai, Jy-yong Sohn, Yicong Chen, S M Iftekharul Alam, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Suman Banerjee, Nageen Himayat, Kangwook Lee
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
FedGP: Buffer-based Gradient Projection for Continual Federated Learning
Shenghong Dai, Yicong Chen, Jy-yong Sohn, S M Iftekharul Alam, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Suman Banerjee, Nageen Himayat, Kangwook Lee
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
FedGP: Buffer-based Gradient Projection for Continual Federated Learning
Shenghong Dai, Bryce Yicong Chen, Jy-yong Sohn, S M Iftekharul Alam, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Suman Banerjee, Nageen Himayat, Kangwook Lee
- Published: 16 May 2023, Last Modified: 02 Jul 2023
- FLSys 2023
- Readers: Everyone
DHA-FL: Enabling Efficient and Effective AIoT via Decentralized Hierarchical Asynchronous Federated Learning
Wesley Houston Huff, pinyarash pinyoanuntapong, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Hao Feng, Minwoo Lee, Pu Wang, Chen Chen
- Published: 12 May 2023, Last Modified: 24 May 2023
- MLSys-RCLWN 2023
- Readers: Everyone
MutualNet: Adaptive ConvNet via Mutual Learning from Different Model Configurations
Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Pu Wang, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Minwoo Lee, Tao Han, Mubarak Shah, Chen Chen
- 18 Nov 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Diverse Client Selection for Federated Learning via Submodular Maximization
Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Tian Li, Tianyi Zhou, Nageen Himayat, Virginia Smith, Jeff Bilmes
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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