I'm Ankita — a researcher working on video understanding and dynamic graph reasoning. Currently a Research Assistant at the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI), IIT Delhi, with Prof. Sayan Ranu. Before that, twelve years across data engineering, AI/ML, and software engineering.

• 🔭 I'm currently working on video saliency research: figuring out which objects in a video actually matter, and building the pipelines and benchmarks that go with it.
• 🌱 I'm currently learning where object ranking ends and world models begin — how models can predict what happens next, not just recognise what's there.
• 👯 I'm looking to collaborate on video understanding, temporal scene graphs, and open datasets for object interaction reasoning.
• 💬 Ask me about computer vision, building research code that runs anywhere, making the jump from industry to research — or day trading US markets.
• 🔥 Working toward FIRE — financial independence, retire early. It's half the reason I pay as much attention to markets as I do to models.
• 🏗️ Also: founder of Perceptron Innovation Labs, and previously fractional CTO at Manastha. M.Tech. in CS (Data Engineering) from IIIT Delhi.
• 📫 How to reach me: ankitamehta.com · LinkedIn
• ⚡ Fun fact: I trade US markets from New Delhi, so my trading day starts around the time most of the city goes to sleep.