About Me
Hi, welcome to my webpage!
I am currently working as a part of Research and Innovation Team @WalmartLabs to explore latest technologies applicable to retail space, particularly focussed on Mixed Reality and Computer Vision. I have developed a strong background in C++, Java, OpenGL, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Deep Learning.
I graduated from the 5-year Integrated M.Tech. programme in Information Technology at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in 2018.
My Research Interests
Geometry Processing; Physics simulation; Rendering
Deep Learning; Adverserial training; Multi-agent systems
Image-based rendering; in-painting; image segmentation
Virtual reality; Augmented Reality; Visual analytics
Resume
Working History
Software Engineer II — @WalmartLabs, IN
Aug 2017 - PresentDeveloped and integrated an Augmented Reality product visualization feature with the existing Sam’s club iOS App, and a backend capable of serving millions of 3D models.
Presently working on a Diminished Reality solution.
Engineering Intern — @WalmartLabs, IN
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017Developed a help center web application for Sam’s Club using AngularJS as frontend and Java Spring/Cassandra as backend.
Developed a VR shopping experience deployable on all major VR headsets and travelled to USA to showcase it to Walmart’s senior leadership.
Intern (Mobile Apps) - Hilti, Malaysia
May 2016 - July 2016Developed an intelligent chatbot for handling all company’s products and services related queries with support for computer vision. Responsibilities included Facebook and Google APIs integration, build system management and cloud deployment.
Intern (Parallel Systems) - Siemens Tech. IN
May 2015 - July 2015Worked on the scalability of one of their binary instrumentation tool. Responsibilities included performance evaluation, bottlenecks identification and program optimisation.
Education History
International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
July 2012 - July 2017Integrated Masters of Technology
CGPA: 3.5/4
Aklank Public School, Kota
July 2010 - July 2012Senior Secondary
Board: Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
Percentage: 87%
St. Paul’s Sr. Sec. School, Udaipur
July 1998 - July 2010Secondary
Board: Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
CGPA: 9.4/10
Certifications
Tools Skills
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Unity 3D
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OpenGL
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Tensorflow
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Qt
Code Skills
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Java
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Python
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C#
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C++
Language Skills
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English
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Hindi
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German
Portfolio
An augmented reality native iOS app to visualize furniture in your space with features including variable lighting, progressive textures and baked shadows. [Demo on request]
A virtual Walmart shopping experience. [Demo on request]
Realistically deleting objects from images
A tool built on GAMA platform to create a data driven simulation of an epidemic.
Publications
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Contour Extraction in Buildings in Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds Using Multi-scale Local Geometric Descriptors and Visual Analytics
J. Sreevalsan-Nair, A. Jindal, and B. Kumari. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2018). (www)
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Using Gradients and Tensor Voting in 3D Local Geometric Descriptors for Feature Detection in Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds in Urban Regions
J.Sreevalsan-Nair, and A. Jindal. in the Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2017. (www)
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Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmissions
Akshay Jindal and Shrisha Rao. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '17). (www)
Invited Talks
March 6, 2018
National Institute of Design, Bangalore
Covered the basic concepts of AR and VR and gave a tutorial on how to develop such apps using Unity 3D
April 11, 2017
Fields of View, Bangalore
Talked about how Agent-based Modeling can be used to overcome the limitations of prior mathematical models for epidemiology
Awards & Honors
Competitions
Runner-up of Walmart Hackday
Feb 2018Runner-up of MakeMyTrip Hackathon
Dec 2016Winner of DigitalOcean Cloud Hack
Oct 2016Finalist, DreamWorks Animation Challenge
Sep 2016Second Runner-up of HackforIndia: The Appfest 2016
May 2016A 12 City Wide Hackathon across India.
Runner-up of Steer Quest
Apr 2016Animation/ VFX/ Gaming Hackathon.
Finalist in IndiaHacks Travel and Transport
Mar 2016India’s largest Hackathon.
Winner of The 2016 Hilti Mobile App Competition
Feb 2016An International Hackathon by Hilti Asia IT Services.
Second Runner-up of Applift Datathon
July 2015A data analytics hackathon by Applift India.
Winner of HackIndia (Bluemix category)
July 2015Winner of Hackathon - Code the future
July 2015National Hackathon by AceHacker and Wipro Digital.
Winner of Informatica Codathon
July 2014A national coding competition organised by Informatica.
Scholarships
Travel grant from Google India, 2017.
March 2017ACM-India/IARCS Travel Grant
March 2017Google-TATA-Udacity Android Nanodegree Scholarship
Jan 2016
April 19, 2018
International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Talked about state-of-the-art algorithms and the top unsolved problems in computer graphics.