About Me

I am first-year Ph.D. student in UNC-CH working with Praneeth Chakravarthula exploring deep-optics and computational image reconstruction. Specifically, I am looking at improving the achievable image quality with meta-lenses, one of the pioneering revolution under Fourier optics. Our research aims to stretch the limits imposed by wave-guided imaging pipelines to open up a diverse range of applications involving meta-lenses.

My primary areas of interest lie in the field of computer graphics and accelerated computing. I am also interested in understanding scene representation through surface and shape modeling. I am drawn towards skeletal-pose and shape estimation models which often intermix physics and kinematics with deep learning. In my spare time I play with vector graphics and 2D visualisations made through programming.

I also have been exposed to industry during my role as an AI engineer at ACL (Advanced Computing Labs, IIT Madras) at KLA-Tencor, Chennai. I spent there time designing some of the most efficient software infrastructures running inference workloads at the speed of light. As an open source enthusiast, I have received both scholarships and sponsoring to support my contributions.

Before that, I was assisting in the research for realistic hand shape modelling with Prof. Parag Chaudhuri and Prateek Kalshetti at ViGIL, IIT Bombay.

Doing research may be similar to MCMC sampling, you start at zero knowledge and after a 

 burnout may get enlightened with an idea!