I am a PhD student advised by Dr. Alan Bovik in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. I completed my Masters (Research) in 2018, where I worked with Dr. Rajiv Soundararajan in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at IISc Bangalore. I primarily work in the overlapping areas of image processing, computer vision and machine learning with a strong focus on developing quality assessment techniques for various image and video applications.
You can find my resume here.
PhD in ECE, 2018 - Present
The University of Texas at Austin
M. Tech in ECE, 2016 - 2018
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
B. Tech in ECE, 2012 - 2016
National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
Research Intern, Mobile Processor Innovation (MPI) Lab
Mentors : Dr. Hamid Sheikh, Dr. Seok-Jun Lee
Synthetic Data for Computer Vision Applications
Research Intern, Media Algorithms Team, YouTube
Mentor : Dr. Mohammad Izadi
Real time video denoising of YouTube Videos
Optimistic descent methods for convex and saddle point objective functions
Training Generative Adversarial Networks with perceptually optimized loss functions
Review of basecalling methods for third generation sequencing devices
Study of Optical Flow statistics for blind video quality assessment
Colorization model for coloring grayscale images based on patch features.
Tutor - I conducted weekly tutorial classes for the following topics: