Raghav{endra Selvan}

Raghav{endra Selvan}

Assistant Professor (TT) @ Machine Learning Section, University of Copenhagen. ELLIS Member.

Bio

Raghavendra Selvan (Raghav) is currently an Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) at the Machine Learning (ML) Section, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). His current research interests are broadly pertaining Resource Efficient ML, ML for Sciences, and Graph Neural Networks. Of late, another overarching theme of his research interests lie at the intersection of sustainability and ML where he is interested in investigating sustainability with ML, and also the sustainability of ML. RS has an upcoming book on these topics entitled Sustainable AI: Tools for Moving Towards Green AI (access early version here).

Raghav received his PhD in Medical Image Analysis (University of Copenhagen, 2018), his MSc degree in Communication Engineering in 2015 (Chalmers University, Sweden) and his Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering degree in 2009 (BMS Institute of Technology, India). Raghavendra Selvan was born in Bangalore, India.

Hiring

If you are interested in joining our team check out the open positions advertised on UCPH Job Portal. And if no positions are currently being advertised by me, feel free to reach out with a short email about what you are interested in and how the projects in my team might be of interest to you. The latter also holds for visiting researchers, and prospective thesis students (enrolled at UCPH).

News

  • 2025-03: Paper accepted to be presented at Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA-2025)
  • 2025-03: New chapter on “Training Efficiency” of RS’s upcoming book on Sustainable AI is available now.
  • 2025-03: RS will be collaborating with Remko Boom on a new 50M DKK project to revolutionize sustainable plant-based food production.
  • 2025-01: RS has started as a partner in a new EU Project: DataPACT to develop compliance tools focused on environmental sustainability of AI.
  • 2025-01: RS presented PePR as an oral presentation at NLDL 2025.
  • 2024-11: Paper accepted as a spotlight to be presented at NeurIPS 2024.
  • 2024-11: RS is now an ELLIS member.
  • 2024-11: RS has been awarded 3.1M DKK by the Independent Research Fund Denmark to work on developing green data methods.
  • 2024-11: RS was in the PhD Committee of Ties Robroek at IT University, Denmark.
  • 2024-11: RS was featured in Videnskab.dk talking about the pros and cons of AI when used to understand ecosystems.
  • 2024-11: Paper accepted to be presented at Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference, 2025.
  • 2024-10: RS was a panelist at Digital Tech Summit discussing the Energy consumption of AI.
  • 2024:10: RS was featured in an article in TV2 discussing why big AI companies are buying massive amounts of nuclear power.
  • 2024-09: RS was featured in an episode of Third Ear podcast.