Biography

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.

Samsung Research America, Plano, TX $\hspace{50pt}$ Summer ‘21

Research Intern, Mobile Processor Innovation (MPI) Lab
Mentors : Dr. Hamid Sheikh, Dr. Seok-Jun Lee

Synthetic Data for Computer Vision Applications

• Worked on deep learning based models trained on synthetic data for image enhancement and computer vision applications

Google, Mountain View, CA $\hspace{88pt}$ Summer ‘19

Research Intern, Media Algorithms Team, YouTube
Mentor : Dr. Mohammad Izadi

Real time video denoising of YouTube Videos

• Worked on real-time video denoising algorithm for user uploaded videos in YouTube. The proposed method had superior speed than existing denoiser and was employed in YouTube TV and LIVE.

Tutor - I conducted weekly tutorial classes for the following topics:

• Python Scripting - an introductory course for python conducted under Peer Mentoring Programme organized by ECE Department, NITK during 2015-2016.
• Engineering Mathematics - II (MA111) for the students of first year B. Tech programme at NITK during Jan - May 2015.

• pavancm@utexas.edu
• Education and Engineering Research, 2501 Speedway, Austin, Texas, USA 78712