Sahil Bhandary Karnoor

241 Coordinated Science Lab · 1308 W Main Street · Urbana, IL 61801 · sahilb5@illinois.edu

I'm currently a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign(UIUC). I work with Professor Romit Roy Choudhury in the Signals & Inference Research Group(SiNRG).

My Research Interests include Human Pose Estimation and Acoustics.

Our work on Zero-shot Human Pose Estimation using Diffusion-based Inverse solvers just got accepted at ICLR 2026!

My Master's thesis, A Bayesian Occupancy Grid Filter for Robust Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, tackles Pedestrian Indoor Localization using just the IMU of a smartphone.

Here's my updated Resume.

Publications

Zero-shot Human Pose Estimation using Diffusion-based Inverse solvers

Sahil Bhandary Karnoor, Romit Roy Choudhury
ICLR 2026

RoSS: Utilizing Robotic Rotation for Audio Source Separation

Hyungjoo Seo, Sahil Bhandary Karnoor, Romit Roy Choudhury
ICRA 2023

Indoor Navigation Using Acoustic Augmented Reality Glasses

Sahil Bhandary Karnoor, Avinash Subramanium, Zhijian Zhang, Romit Roy Choudhury
CSL Conference 2022

Experience

Software Engineer Research Intern(upcoming)

Apple
May 2026 - August 2026

Applied Scientist

Amazon

Worked on Eye-Tracking using EoG signals.

May 2024 - August 2024

Applied Scientist

Amazon

Worked on Determining if acoustic signals came from within the same room as the microphone.

May 2023 - August 2023

Project Assistant

Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
June 2019 - July 2021

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PhD
Electrical and Computer Engineering
January 2024 - Present

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Master of Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
August 2021 - December 2023

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology
Electronics and Communication Engineering
July 2015 - May 2019