I am Kaushik Pillalamarri, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University(NCSU), specializing in AI foundation models and agentic AI systems for Earth Observation. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India and my M.S. in Computer Science from NCSU.
My research centers on multimodal foundation models and agentic AI systems for Earth Observation. I investigate methods for integrating optical, SAR, and other remote sensing data to address challenges such as sea-ice monitoring and wildfire mapping, while developing autonomous agents capable of adaptive reasoning and decision-making in geospatial environments. Through advances in model architectures, multimodal fusion, and modality-aware learning, I aim to build trustworthy, open-source AI systems that accelerate climate research, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and other high-impact Earth Observation applications.
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