CoSTAR PhD Student - University of SurreyArkaprabha Basu

Arkaprabha is based at the University of Surrey under supervision of Prof. Yi-Zhe Song. He has an M.Tech in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad, an M.Sc from Pondicherry University and a B.Sc from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Calcutta University). He has also worked as a Project Associate at TCG Crest, Kolkata, and Lead Data Scientist at HappyMonk.AI, where he developed multimodal medical solutions and real-time computer vision systems for surveillance and re-identification tasks and with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, as a project researcher, working on medical AI and heritage restoration on two Indian government projects (DST).

He has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed papers in international venues such as IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Access, ICPR 2024, AAAI 2025 (Student Abstract), and IJCNN 2025, with works focusing on medical imaging, multimodal learning, prompt-based report generation, and alignment issues in LLMs. He is currently working on “Novel Interfaces for Video Generation Through Intuitive Storyboarding Using Sketch,” at CoSTAR, researching how abstract sketch strokes can be used to drive video generation so creators can quickly turn simple storyboards into coherent, view-aware video sequences.