I am a second
year Robograd (PhD student at the Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University). My research
focus is to make pretty
pictures (Computer Graphics) and to make sense out of ugly pictures
(Computer Vision). More technically, I am interested in
understanding how light interacts with media like smoke,dust, fog, ocean
water etc. and the resulting effects on the image formation
process.
Before coming to CMU, I spent two years at
the Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University.
I spent most of my time here 'making
faces' for a variety of reasons. Research was one of them.
Ah, and before that, I spent 4 Absolutely Fantastic, nostalgia-inducing years at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi . Back then, my research
interests were purely focused on movies,
eating, traveling and lazying around. Along the way,
I got interested in becoming a tourist guide
and got involved with making a walk-through of the Humayun's tomb in New
Delhi.