Nikhil Behari
I'm a graduate student in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab, advised by Professor Ramesh Raskar .
My research interests include computational imaging, 3D scene understanding, and multi-agent decision-making under uncertainty, with a focus on automating imaging system design for 3D perception in human and planetary health.
My research is supported by the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellowship, under which I am advised by Dr. Corey Ippolito.
I received my B.A. in Computer Science and Statistics from Harvard University in 2022. During my undergrad, I interned at the CMU Future Interfaces Group with Prof. Chris Harrison, and more recently I was a Research Fellow at the Harvard
Center for Research on Computation and Society advised by Prof. Milind Tambe.
I am also a Non-Resident Tutor for Harvard's Mather House, where I lead the Higher Education advising team.
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DENALI: A Dataset Enabling Non-Line-of-Sight Spatial Reasoning with Low-Cost LiDARs
Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero, Luke Apostolides, Suman Ghosh, Paul Pu Liang, Ramesh Raskar
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Task-Driven Implicit Representations for Automated Design of LiDAR Systems
Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young, Akshat Dave, Ramesh Raskar
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Blurred LiDAR for Sharper 3D: Robust Handheld 3D Scanning with Diffuse LiDAR and RGB
Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young, Siddharth Somasundaram, Tzofi Klinghoffer, Akshat Dave, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR , June 2025
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A Decision-Language Model (DLM) for Dynamic Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Tasks in Public Health
Nikhil Behari , Edwin Zhang, Yunfan Zhao, Aparna Taneja, Dheeraj Nagaraj, Milind Tambe
NeurIPS , December 2024
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A Roadmap for Generative Design of Visual Intelligence
Kushagra Tiwary, Tzofi Klinghoffer*, Aaron Young*, Siddharth Somasundaram, Nikhil Behari , Akshat Dave, Brian Cheung, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Tomaso Poggio, Ramesh Raskar
MIT Press , 2024
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Towards a Pretrained Model for Restless Bandits via Multi-arm Generalization
Yunfan Zhao*, Nikhil Behari* , Edward Hughes, Edwin Zhang, Dheeraj Nagaraj, Karl Tuyls, Aparna Taneja, Milind Tambe
IJCAI , August 2024
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SUNDIAL: 3D Satellite Understanding through Direct, Ambient, and Complex Lighting Decomposition
Nikhil Behari , Akshat Dave, Kushagra Tiwary, William Yang, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR EarthVision , June 2024
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DISeR: Designing Imaging Systems with Reinforcement Learning
Tzofi Klinghoffer*, Kushagra Tiwary*, Nikhil Behari , Bhavya Agrawalla, Ramesh Raskar
ICCV , October 2023
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Find Rhinos without Finding Rhinos
Lucia Gordon, Nikhil Behari , Samuel Collier, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Jackson A. Killian, Catherine Ressijac, Peter Boucher, Andrew Davies, Milind Tambe
IJCAI AI for Good , August 2023
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ORCA: Glossy Objects as Radiance Field Cameras
Kushagra Tiwary*, Akshat Dave*, Nikhil Behari , Tzofi Klinghoffer, Ashok
Veeraraghavan, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR , June 2023
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking: Toward Planetary-Scale Resilience,
Equity, and Sustainability
Snehalkumar ‘Neil’ Gaikwad, Shankar Iyer, Dalton Lunga, Takahiro Yabe, Xiaofan Liang, Bhavani
Ananthabhotla, Nikhil Behari , Sreelekha Guggilam, Guanghua Chi
KDD , August 2022
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A Framework for Rapid Active Learning in Resource-Constrained Environmental Sensing Domains
Nikhil Behari
Senior Thesis, Harvard College , May 2022
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Micronutrient Deficiency Prediction via Publicly Available Satellite Imagery
Elizabeth Bondi, Haipeng Chen, Christopher Golden, Nikhil Behari , Milind Tambe
IAAI , February 2022
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Using Public Data to Predict Demand for Mobile Health Clinics
Haipeng Chen, Susobhan Ghosh, Gregory Fan, Nikhil Behari , Arpita Biswas, Mollie Williams, Nancy E.
Oriol, Milind Tambe
IAAI , February 2022
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Contextual Segmentation of Fire Spotting Regions Through Satellite-Augmented
Autonomous Modular Sensor Imagery
Nikhil Behari , Henry Holbrook, Paris Garrett, Corey Ippolito, Chester Dolph
AIAA Scitech , January 2022
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Improving Aircraft Trajectory Classification
Henry Holbrook, Paris Garrett, Nikhil Behari , Chester Dolph, Christopher Morris, George Szatkowski
AIAA Scitech , January 2022
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Representative Travel Time Mapping: Highlighting Transportation-Based Citywide
Inequities in Hospital Access
Nikhil Behari
KDD Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping ,
August 2021
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Satellite-Based Food Market Detection for Micronutrient Deficiency Prediction
Nikhil Behari , Elizabeth Bondi, Christopher D. Golden, Hervet J. Randriamady,
Milind Tambe
AAAI Health Intelligence , February 2021
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Changing Allegiance: Insider Threat and Inadvertent Leaks
Kathleen Carley, Geoffrey Morgan, Nikhil Behari , Neal Altman, Andrew Moore
Sunbelt Social Network Conference , April 2016