Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science

  Expected 2018

  Center for Visual Information Technology.
  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

• B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering

  2004-2008

  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Research Experience

• Research Assistant, CVIT, KCIS, IIIT Hyderabad

  2016-2017

  Developed a system to provide an immersive movie watching experience to the viewer.

• Student Developer, Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

  2015

  Liquid Galaxy is an immersive panoramic multi-display system by End Point Corp. Developed a plugin to enable support for Liquid Galaxy on Stellarium, an open source planetarium software, using Interactive Spaces.

• Research Assistant, IDH, Microsoft Research & IIIT-H

  2010-2015

  Developed a distributed rendering system for realtime rendering of the massive digital monuments constructed as part of the Indian Digital Heritage (IDH) project.

• Research Assistant, ANURAG, DRDO & IIIT-H

  2013

  Developed a software for rendering voxel data on a stereoscopic tiled display of a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster.

• Research Assistant, Virtual Labs, MHRD, GOI

  2010-2012

  Developed the Computer Graphics Virtual Lab which aims at teaching the basic concepts and algorithms of computer graphics visually.

• Research Assistant, Rockwell Collins & IIIT-H

  2008-2009

  Developed a Distributed Graphics Rendering API as part of the Rockwell Collins Aircraft Simulation program.

Work Experience

• Student System Administrator, CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad

  2010-2016

  Administered the GPU servers in CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad. Developed CLAW, a cloud project/dataset repository and centralised account management system for the GPU servers at CVIT.

• Freelance Web Designer

  2009-2010

  Worked as freelance web designer for Serenus Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. and Carandhalf.com Pvt. Ltd.

Teaching Experience

• Computer Graphics, IIIT Hyderabad

  Spring 2013, 2015 & 2016

  Conducted classes on OpenGL2/3, GLSL and WebGL during the course as a Head Teaching Assistant.
  Course Instructor: Dr. P J Narayanan, Dr. Anoop M Namboodiri

• Distributed Systems, IIIT Hyderabad

  Monsoon 2015, Spring 2017

  Conducted classes on MPI, OpenMP and Hadoop during the course as a Head Teaching Assistant. Coordinated the TAs for assignments and evaluations.
  Course Instructor: Dr. R Govindarajulu

• Compilers, IIIT Hyderabad

  Monsoon 2007, 2013 & 2016

  Coordinated with the other TAs for tutorials, assignments and evaluations. Course Instructor: Dr. R Govindarajulu

• Linux Environment, IIIT Hyderabad

  Monsoon 2005

  Mentored the freshers in usage of Linux environment for academics.

Research & Development Projects

• Ambient Lightscapes

  2016 - Till Date

  Dr. P J Narayanan & Dr. Anoop M N, IIIT Hyderabad

  Designed and developed an augmented reality display system that provides an immersive movie watching experience to the viewers. The system expands the field of view by extrapolating the video to augment the contents of the scene on the viewers’ surroundings covering the peripheral vision. Technologies/Tools: Matlab, SLAM, OpenCV, GLSL, Arduino programming

• Distributed Massive Model Rendering

  2010 - 2015

  Dr. P J Narayanan, IDH, Microsoft Research & IIIT Hyderabad

  Designed and developed a distributed rendering system for realtime rendering of massive textured models using a cluster of multi-GPU machines. The rendering system follows a master-slave framework and is scalable to handle models of complexity ranging to billions of triangles and gigapixels of textures. The system also includes a distributed storage module to store the massive models and cater efficiently to the rendering cluster. The system has been developed as part of the Indian Digital Heritage (IDH) project. Technologies/Tools: C++, OSG, GLSL, Boost, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA

• Stellarium on Liquid Galaxy

  Summer 2015

  End Point Corp., Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

  Stellarium is an open source planetarium software. Liquid Galaxy is an immersive panoramic multi-display system. Implemented support for Liquid Galaxy on Stellarium using Interactive Spaces. Technologies/Tools: Java, C++, Qt, ZeroMQ, Interactive Spaces

• The Omnipotent - Natural Interaction with Virtual Environments

  Sep 2014 - Feb 2015

  IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed an interface for interacting with virtual environments through hand gestures, voice recognition, facial tracking and expressions using an Intel® RealSense™ camera. Coordinated a team of 6 through the design of the game, The Omnipotent, which demonstrates the natural interface. The game allows the player to take the role of God interacting with the virtual world through completely natural interaction. The game won the top 250 award internationally in the Intel® RealSense™ App Challenge 2014. Technologies/Tools: C#, Unity, Intel® RealSense™ SDK
  Team Size: 6

• Rendering Voxel Data on Stereoscopic Tiled Display of Hybrid CPU- GPU Cluster

  Apr 2013 - Dec 2013

  ANURAG, DRDO

  Designed a stereoscopic tiled display system on a hybrid cluster of multi- GPU machines. Guided a team through the software development for stereoscopic rendering of voxel data on the tiled display setup. Technologies/Tools: C++, OSG, Qt
  Team Size: 3

• Computer Graphics Virtual Lab

  Jun 2010 - Feb 2012

  Virtual Labs, MHRD, Govt. of India

  Developed the Computer Graphics Virtual Lab which aims at teaching the basic concepts and algorithms of computer graphics. An interactive toolkit has been designed to give the user a hands on experience and visual depiction of the basics of geometry and computer graphics. A set of predefined tutorials explain these concepts through step by step procedures allowing the users to visualise the effect of certain concepts like transformations, cameras and algorithms like frustum culling and rasterisation. Technologies/Tools: Java, JOGL

• Distributed Graphics Rendering

  Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

  Dr. P J Narayanan, Rockwell Collins & IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed a Distributed Graphics Rendering API as a part of the Rockwell Collins Aircraft Simulation program. This API is mainly designed to be able to run on low end architectures with MPI communications and a GNU C compiler on top of OpenGL API. Implemented the culling and rasterisation algorithms with support for basic 2D primitives and TTF fonts rasterisation. Technologies/Tools: C, MPI, OpenGL

• Garuda Tiled Display System

  Nov 2006 - May 2008

  Dr. P J Narayanan, IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed the networking module using multicast protocol for the Garuda tiled display wall system. Developed various applications for the Garuda system including an Interactive 3D Molecular Visualiser, an Interactive Walkthrough of the 3D model of IIIT-H campus and FastWheels, a 3D racing game with well-defined physics, controls and AI as part of the B.Tech. project. Technologies/Tools: C++, OSG, 3ds Max, Qt

• X Molecular Builder

  Apr 2006 - Jul 2006

  Dr. P J Narayanan & Dr. Abhijit Mitra, IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed an application to create or load the 2D representations of molecules, construct their 3-dimensional structures and render these models using OpenGL. The interface built with Qt gives the user complete control over the orientation to study the molecular model and even design new molecules. Technologies/Tools: C++, OpenGL, Qt Download

Course Projects

• Aditi - The Lost Chapters

  Monsoon 2014

  Prof. Kavitha Vemuri, Game Design and Engineering, IIIT Hyderabad

  Designed a physical turn-based strategy board game with an evolving board design, gameplay and story arc based on players decisions each time it is played. Technologies/Tools: Photoshop, Physical board design
  

• Twiiiter

  Monsoon 2010

  Cloud Computing, IIIT Hyderabad

  Implemented the functionalities of Twitter micro blogging site using NoSQL databases as part of Cloud Computing course project. Technologies/Tools: HTML, PHP, Ajax, Hbase, MongoDB, Zookeeper, Thrift
  Team Size: 2

• Parallel MiniMax - AI for Chess

  Spring 2009

  Dr. Kishore Kothapalli & Dr. P J Narayanan, Multicore Architecture, IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed a parallel MiniMax with alpha-beta pruning algorithm over GPGPU using CUDA. Designed a Chess game with AI based on the parallel algorithm. Technologies/Tools: C++, CUDA, Qt, OpenGL
  Team Size: 2

• Cross Language Information Retrieval

  Monsoon 2007

  Dr. Vasudeva Varma, IEIR, IIIT Hyderabad

  Designed a CLIR engine from Telugu to English which retrieves relevant English documents based on a Telugu Query. Technologies/Tools: Lucene, Java, Python
  Team Size: 3

• Video Google

  Feb 2007 - Mar 2007

  Dr. C V Jawahar, Computer Vision, IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed a video search engine which retrieves videos based on a part or whole of an image as query. Technologies/Tools: C++, Python, OpenCV, mySQL, CGI, Javascript
  Team Size: 19

• Watermarking of Digital Media

  Monsoon 2006

  Dr. Anoop M Namboodiri, Digital Image Processing, IIIT Hyderabad

  Implemented several algorithms to watermark digital media like images, videos etc. to protect them from copyright infringements. Technologies/Tools: C++
  Team Size: 2

• C-minus Compiler

  Monsoon 2006

  Dr. R Govindarajulu, Compilers, IIIT Hyderabad

  Implemented a compiler for C-minus language which is a subset of C language. Technologies/Tools: Lex, YACC

• Snakes & Ladders - An online multiplayer game

  Nov 2005

  Dr. Kamalakar Karlapalem, ITWS-2, IIIT Hyderabad

  Developed a 3D online multiplayer Snakes & Ladders game as part of ITWS-2 course. The game is built with Qt interface and OpenGL for rendering with a choice of single-player with AI or multiplayer over network with other players. Technologies/Tools: C, Python, OpenGL, Qt
  Team Size: 3 Download