Research Assistant, Walkthru & GAMMA groups, UNC-Chapel Hill
(May 2001 - Present).
Summer Intern, Microsoft Research (May 2004-Aug 2004).
Summer Intern, AT&T Research Lab (May 2002-Aug 2002).
Research Assistant, nanoManipulator group, UNC-Chapel Hill (Aug
2000 - May 2001).
Summer Intern, Informatik Centrum Dortmund (ICD), Germany (May
1999-Jul 1999).
Projects
Geometric Problems
My current research work covers a class
of geometric problems:
robot motion planning, Boolean
operations,
swept volume, and Minkowski sum computation. These problems have
a innumerable applications in robotics, computer graphics, and
visualization. My work has been published at a number of
conferences and journals (see below).
Earlier I had worked on a system for
visualization of massive geometric models. The main feature of
our system was that it could render models much larger than the
available physical memory. It stored the entire model on disk and
maintained only a small portion of the model in main memory using a
novel data structure. To improve performance, it performed smart
memory management as well as use prefetching techniques.
During my first year at graduate
school, I worked as part of a nanoManipulator group, on a simulator for
Atomic Force Microscope. The purpose of the simulato was
model verification. It allowed scientists to propose different
models for objects, compute a simulated scan using the simulator, and
match the simulated scan with the experimental scan. If the
simulated scan matches the experimental scan, then the model is
plausible; otherwise it is invalid.
For my undergraduate thesis, I wrote
a small real time kernel for embedded systems. The kernel
supported basic features required to run real time vision applications
such as collision detection, tracking, etc.
Gokul Varadhan, Warren Robinett, Dorothy Erie and Russell
M.
Taylor II
Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis,
2002
Collaborators
All of my research work has been done jointly with one or more of the
following collaborators:
Dinesh Manocha (Advisor)
Shankar Krishnan (AT&T Labs)
Young J Kim (EWHA University)
Brian Guenter (Microsoft Research)
Ming Lin
TVN. Sriram
Russell Taylor
Dorothy Erie (Chemistry)
Warren Robinett
Vivek Haldar (UC Irvine)
Subashis Banerjee (IIT Delhi)
M. Balakrishnan (IIT Delhi)