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I am a second-year grad student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington - Seattle, advised by Prof. Steven Seitz. I commenced my studies in the fall of 2009 and am a member of the GRAIL lab. My academic interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization and Graphics. I also occasionally dabble in some user-interface design.
I previously worked as a developer on various research projects with the Advanced Development and Prototyping group at Microsoft Research India.
Recent Publications
- Being John Malkovich (ECCV '10) is a research project which enables a user to puppeteer a celebrity, in realtime, using a webcam as an input. The underlying technique analyzes frames from celebrity interview videos to create a convincing animation. Check out a (video) of our system in action.
- An Interactive Multimedia Framework for Digital Heritage Narratives (MM'10) describes a software architecture and media framework to create and render interactive visual narratives. The paper describes how our framework was used to digitize and preserve India's amazing and diverse cultural heritage.
About Me
I graduated in Spring 2008 from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology (DAIICT), majoring in Information & Communication Technology (ICT). Thereafter, I worked as a Research Software Developer with MSR India at their wonderful Bangalore lab. In the fall of 2009, I began my graduate studies at the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering department.
My academic interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Information Design, Visualization and User-Interface design. Digital Storytelling and Computer Vision for HCI have recently piqued my interest. I also harbor a keen enthusiasm for software development, specifically rich internet applications and immersive user experiences. In my spare time, I love to play Basketball, take photographs & work on my Mac.
I have experience working with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premier and the Microsoft Expression Studio. I am proficient at creating interactive interfaces in Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight & Windows Presentation Foundation. Samples of my work can be found on the Portfolio Page. Apart from this, I have a good grasp of C/C++/C# .net, OpenGL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS & server-side ASP/JSP.
My updated résumé can be downloaded here [pdf] or may be viewed online here [txt].
I also maintain a tubmblelog (a mixed-media blog) here and upload my best shots to flickr.
Portfolio
Digital Heritage | Website
The India Digital Heritage Project is an effort to collect, store and share data on architectural sites and stimulate research related fields. This website was created as a portal for hosting unique visualizations and other heritage-related information, including a demonstration of MSR India's prototype.
Click here to visit the website.
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Contact me
Feel free to write to me with any comments, suggestions or interesting discourse. I would love to hear from you.
