Arvind Lakshmikumar
B i o g r a p h y
I
come from the garden city of Bangalore growing up in the quiet
neighbourhood of Koramangala. I attended King George's Royal Indian
Military School (now known as Military School, Bangalore), with every
intention of joining the IAF as a fighter pilot. A two year high school
study at DAV, Gopalapuram herded me towards a career in engineering. I
graduated from Birla Institute of
Technology and Science with a Masters degree in Systems Software and
a Masters degree in Chemistry. BITS, Pilani was memorable in more ways
than one. It was here, I met my wife Priya Narasimhan. "Studying" in
BITS was a ball for Priya and I, and the honeymoon continued when
we moved to Ohio (Ohio University) at
the pretext of doing a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. At
O.U, I worked with David
Chelberg on Decision making for soccer playing mobile robots (Robobcats). After a
stint at Ohio, my interests in vision and 3D graphics beckoned and I
joined the Robotics Institute (RI) at
Carnegie Mellon University as a research scholar and graduate student.
At RI, I worked with Takeo Kanade
on matters pertinent to Computer Vision, Medical Robotics and 3D
graphics. During the course of graduate study, I dabbled with
a startup on virtual medical simulation and also had a stint at a
high-technology small business (Intelligent
Automation). For the present, I work with Honeywell Labs in sunny
Bangalore and lead some efforts in automating visual scene
analysis.
Besides
technology, I am interested in trivia quizzing, adventure sports and
the stock market. The humdrum of daily life leaves me with little time
for the first two. The stock market has been a fascination for the last
couple of years and I have had a good ride on the ups and downs of the
NASDAQ and Dalal Street. My current holds are entertainment scrips.