Utkarsh Mall

Utkarsh Mall is an Assistant Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, starting Fall 2025. His research focuses on computer vision systems for scientific discovery and domain expert collaboration.

• Previous affiliations: Columbia University (postdoc), Cornell University (PhD 2023), IIT Bombay (BS 2017), Facebook AI Research (FAIR) (internship 2020)

Research directions:

• Supervision-efficient vision systems (self/semi-supervised learning)
• Trustworthy AI properties (interpretability, uncertainty estimation)
• Scientific discovery tools (climate monitoring, fashion analysis, urban mapping)

Recent article trends: 60% focus on satellite image analysis (change detection, cloud removal, disaster monitoring) and 40% on fundamental vision research (neurosymbolic models, LLM integration, facial expression analysis).

Scientific awards:

• NSF ACED Interdisciplinary Research Grant (2025)
• NSF Research Grant (2024)
• Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2021
• Outstanding Teaching Award (Cornell 2018)