About Me
Computational Imaging and Vision researcher. Completed my PhD in the Rice Computational Imaging Lab led by Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan at Rice University, Houston TX USA.
My research interests lie at the intersection of vision, sensing, and AI.
Happy to annouce that I defended my PhD thesis in Jan 2026. Happy to connect and talk about opportunities. Here is my resume.
My Interests
Interested in developing methods for imaging systems or visual display systems using AI and foundational knowledge of CV and optics. "Full-stack" engineer of imaging systems.
News
- Feb 2026: Happy to announce that I have joined as Qualcomm RnD CameraML team in Bangalore, India.
- Jan 2026: Successfully defended PhD thesis on computational imaging and vision for surgery.
- Oct 2025: Research work on multi-modal remote vital signs estimation accepted in NeurIPS 2025 main track. Happy to have played mentorship role to first author. Stay tuned for more updates
- Mar 2025: Passed PhD proposal. My PhD is centered around computational imaging and vision for surgery and surgical applications.
- Jan 2025: Our paper, “Video-Based Surgical Tool-Tip and Keypoint Tracking Using Multi-Frame Context-Driven Deep Learning Models” got accepted at IEEE ISBI 2025.
- Feb 2024: Our paper, “Passive Snapshot Coded Aperture Dual-Pixel RGB-D Imaging”, a joint work between Rice and IIT Madras, has been accepted to the main conference track at CVPR 2024.
Work Experience
- May 2019 - Aug 2019: Software Engineering Intern at Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale CA.
- Feb 2020 - Aug 2020: Software Engineering Intern at Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale CA.
Research Experience ( show highlighted / show all by date / show by topic )
CogPhys: Assessing Cognitive Load via Multimodal Remote and Contact-based Physiological Sensing
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Video-based Surgical Tool-tip and Keypoint Tracking using Multi-frame Context-driven Deep Learning Models
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Accepted at IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
ISBI
, 2025
[Paper] • [Preprint] • [Project Page] • [Code]
[Paper] • [Preprint] • [Project Page] • [Code]
CADS: Coded Aperture Dual-Pixel Imaging for Passive RGB-D Imaging
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Accepted at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (main conference track)
CVPR
, 2024
[Paper] • [Preprint] • [Project Page] • [Code]
[Paper] • [Preprint] • [Project Page] • [Code]
Talks
- Invited Talk, "Split Aperture Computational Imaging" @ IITM, 2024
Honors and Awards
- Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCP 2022 for "PS2F: Polarized Spiral Point Spread Function for Single-Shot 3D Sensing"
- Sri Jandhyala Lakshmi Kantam and Srimati Sitamahalakshmi Prize, IITM 2018. For 2nd best academic performance in Engineering Physics
Professional Service
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Reviewer
- CVPR • IEEE OJSP • IEEE BHI • PLOS DigitalHealth